Database accessibility is a key part of Web-based applications and dynamically generated Web pages, so PHP's creators have made the language particularly effective in this area. In fact, even though ...

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I blogged previously on using PHP on the command line, but I did not cover using PHP to access the file system in that post in the interest of blog post size. I use this post to cover some of the ...

Implement MySQL-based transactions with a new set of PHP extensions Your email has been sent Written by Transactional support has long been on the wish list of most MySQL developers and, with the ...

One of the most basic reasons to use a computer-programming language is for task automation. Through a series of logical decisions, developers can use code to accomplish smaller tasks that, when ...

Using a combination of PHP and MySQL functions, you can query an online database for numerical values, add them together and display the results on your Web page. You have to use the functions in a ...

Due to the incredible growth of PHP in the last couple of years, it's now being used for tasks ranging from tiny scripts to large-scale Web applications. Some Web applications contain hundreds of ...