The $_FILES variable in PHP is one of the more complicated global variables in PHP. With it, you can upload files to the server and find a bunch of stuff out about those files. Below is a little guide and writeup about this variable and how to use it, I hope you enjoy it.

And we’re back for another amazing, groundbreaking, earth shattering, .. moon destroying, nuclear fight against PHP and it’s magical Object Orientated Programming abilities. In this part we’ll go over inheritance, destructors and constructors, more keywords and the scope resolution operator. You might wanna check out part one if you haven’t already.

In this part we’ll cover the basics of classes, and how to put together your own class. We’ll also go over how to make variables.

Classes add a lot of functionality to your code and help to stop you repeating yourself over and over again as you might in conventional code. With classes and functions you’ll be able to make generic scripts that you can simply call when you need them.

Not only this but classes make your coding a lot more tidy, so you can usually find everything you’re looking for. When you know how to use them they can really speed up the speed at which you’re working.

Email is simply a way to send mail electronically to people in text and image form, with attachments if required. Email has been called the internet’s “killer app” and is generally considered one of the first things people think of when they think of the internet.

That’s why when you want to update your users on what’s happening on your website, we use a mailing list or a subscription service where the user enters their email address, validates it, and recieves updates from you. In this tutorial we’ll cover how exactly to do that, and hopefully you’ll learn a thing or two about PHP and MySQL along the way.

5 Star Rating System

I’ve been experimenting with rating systems recently, in jQuery and whatnot, and I thought I’d share the results with you. You can easily expand upon what I’ve made here, to make a more complex system than the basic one I have made. It’s also pretty easy to implement into whatever system you have running. Enjoy!

If you’re running a sizable website, chances are you’re going to have to pass information from page to page. Unfortunately with PHP, most data is confined to one page. However, there are ways around this, which I will go over in this tutorial.

MySQL combined with PHP is a powerful tool. However, most beginners won’t know where to start, on how to extract the data from their databases, or what have you. There is just about 50 MySQL functions in PHP, all used to help you accomplish what you need with PHP. However, you’re probably not going to use them all, and below I’ll explain the key features

Hello, and welcome to another PHP tutorial. This one will teach you how to make a nice PHP calendar (in PHP of course!). When I started out in PHP I always wanted to know how to make a calendar, but could never find the tutorial to do it. So i figured I’d write my own up, to help anyone who is in a similar situation to what I was in. Click the read link to find out more.

PHP is a hard language to master and sometimes you just need a little push to get started. Thats why I put together this (very) basic guide on everything you’ll need to know to get started in PHP