Newgrounds.com — Everything, By Everyone.

type casting yo

I can't believe this thread doesn't get enough posts to keep an updated index anymore. Sad :(

PHP: Main
--------------

Your resource for great PHP tutorials!

PHP: GENERAL CODE:

BEGINNER (20)
PHP: Basic Php Forms by Rellizate
PHP: Basic Superglobals by SpamBurger
PHP: Beginners tutorial by DFox
PHP: Constants by SpamBurger
PHP: Email Form / Contact by MihaS
PHP: Including Files by DannyIsOnFire * NEW *
PHP: Languages (system) (basic) by NeillS
PHP: Loops by NinoGrounds
PHP: Mail by NinoGrounds
PHP: Managing IP addresses by bagoverhead
PHP: mt_rand() and array_rand() by Mister-Mind
PHP: Page ID by keifer121
PHP: Redirecting In Php by NeillS
PHP: Sessions and Cookies by WoogieNoogie
PHP: Setting and Returning Cookies by Jams44
PHP: Simple $_get Workings by NeillS
PHP: Some basic important security by elbekko
PHP: Storing Cookie Info by Jams44
PHP: Text Display by AcDiK-DR4G0N
PHP: Website Progress/Percentages by Greeley

INTERMEDIATE (32)
PHP: Ajax by SpamBurger
PHP: Basic Ftp Interactions by Pilot-Doofy
PHP: Basic Oop by different * NEW *
PHP: Basic Php-gtk by CyberLemming
PHP: Capitalize Every Word (arrays) by juraj
PHP: Changing Content-types by Pilot-Doofy
PHP: Creating Functions by WoogieNoogie
PHP: Database Optimization by NinoGrounds
PHP: Database Structuring 101 by DFox
PHP: defining functions and stuff by Pilot-Doofy
PHP: File uploads by Pilot-Doofy
PHP: Functions & Arrays (advanced) by different * NEW *
PHP: Functions & Arrays by Momo-the-Monkey
PHP: Good habits/Security concerns by Sir-Davey
PHP: Hash Algorithms by authorblues
PHP: Image Resizing by Pilot-Doofy
PHP: Intro To Curl by SpamBurger
PHP: Output Buffering by NinoGrounds
PHP: Outputting updates by thecoshman * NEW *
PHP: Page Id's (using Mysql) by Jordan
PHP: replace_tags() by Pilot-Doofy
PHP: resizing and copying images by Pilot-Doofy
PHP: Secure PHP Navigation by bigftballjock
PHP: securing file uploads by Pilot-Doofy
PHP: SQL and PHP by SpamBurger
PHP: Starting With Gd by cherries
PHP: String Manipulation by Zwe
PHP: Type casting by Pilot-Doofy * NEW *
PHP: Using explode and implode functions by DFox
PHP: Using MySQL by thingie-348

ADVANCED (3)
PHP: Advanced Misc by NinoGrounds
PHP: CLI (Command Line Interface) Basics by Craige
PHP: Function strFind() by Pilot-Doofy

PHP: SPECIFIC PROJECTS:

BEGINNER (18)
PHP: Calculating Age by Pilot-Doofy
PHP: Calculator by Momo-the-Monkey
PHP: Contact Form by DannyIsOnFire
PHP: Count Line Breaks by Zendra
PHP: Creating a basic flash cms by cherries
PHP: Creating A Random Ad Script by Jams44
PHP: Create a random quotes script by DFox
PHP: Date Displayer by Jams44
PHP: Easy gallery by eWhabs
PHP: Forced Download by DannyIsOnFire
PHP: Gzip - get saved today! by NinoGrounds
PHP: Link Checking by Jams44
PHP: Mad Libs by Thomas * NEW *
PHP: Shoutbox (MySQL) by WoogieNoogie

PHP: Shoutbox With No Sql by condawg * NEW *
PHP: Specific word shuffle by juraj * NEW *
PHP: Simple Hit Counter by SpamBurger
PHP: Voting System (From 1 to 5) by Greeley

INTERMEDIATE (12)
PHP: Basic Guestbook by Jordan
PHP: Creating a Blog by WoogieNoogie
PHP: Curl: Gmail Rss Reading by elbekko
PHP: Member System by SpamBurger
PHP: Mysql, Php, And Podcasting by WoogieNoogie
PHP: News System With Comments by Momo-the-Monkey
PHP: Random quote image by DFox
PHP: Search Engine by Zendra
PHP: Secure (and Handy) View Source by authorblues
PHP: Simple Faq System by NeillS
PHP: User Authentication (Part 1) by Greeley
PHP: Users Online by SpamBurger

PHP: USEFUL RESOURCES:

BEGINNER (3)
PHP: Rapid Website Development by Sir-Davey
PHP: Setting up a localhost by NeillS
PHP: Speed by NinoGrounds

INTERMEDIATE (1)
PHP: Application Design In Php by Craige

Total number of tutorials: 87

PHP: Other links:

Official PHP site - Great for looking up functions, PHP info
PHP Freaks - Tons of tutorials, code snippets
Pixel2Life PHP section - More PHP tutorials
TechTuts.com PHP section - More PHP tutorials
HotScripts PHP tutorials - Tips and Tricks on HotScripts.com

PHP: Main Tutorial Authors (These are all people who have contributed one or more tutorials to PHP: Main)

Pilot-Doofy (11)
SpamBurger (8)
NinoGrounds (7)
DFox (5)
Jams44 (5)
NeillS (5)
WoogieNoogie (5)
DannyIsOnFire (3)
elbekko (3)
Greeley (3)
Momo-the-Monkey (3)
authorblues (2)
cherries (2)
Craige (2)
different (2)
Jordan (2)
juraj (2)
Sir-Davey (2)
Zendra (2)
AcDiK-DR4G0N (1)
bagoverhead (1)
bigftballjock (1)
condawg (1)
CyberLemming (1)
eWhabs (1)
keifer121 (1)
MihaS (1)
Mister-Mind (1)
Rellizate (1)
thecoshman (1)
thingie-348 (1)
Thomas (1)
Zwe (1)

PHP: Main Supporters (These are supporters who list PHP: Main in their signatures, of course in addition to the tutorial authors)

DFox
elbekko
Momo-the-Monkey
Naois
Pilot-Doofy
SpamBurger
thecoshman
WoogieNoogie

For this update, I ask you to please bare with me. There were a TON of things that needed changing. Some tutorials needed to be removed, names changed, websites changed, userpages linked to, and I probably made some mistakes. Feel free to point them out, and again, I aplogize. After this, it should get much easier.

We are continuing our "referall" program. If you put PHP: Main in your signature, you can get on the list under supporters with a link to your website. Simply put a link in your signature, and post here and say that you have put it in. You will be included in the next update. I am aware that everyone's sigs were removed in the redesign, so I encourage people who haven't put PHP: Main back in their sigs to please do so as any publicity helps PHP: Main :)

As always, please report any mistakes.

PHP: Pagination
Hope people find it useful :)

OK guys, here's the scoop.

You may have noticed PHP: Main has been moving really slow lately. You may have also noticed I didn't link to PHP: Main discussion on this update. That's because we're not going to use it anymore. I'm going to ask liljim to lock it. I think it will help us keep updates fresh if we do all PHP: Main business right in here.

Also, in this update, you might have noticed that tutorial authors are ordered by # of tutorials created.

Thoughts an all this?

Over all good ideas. I mean, usualy it it takes about seven tuts to bbe posted befor a new page is reached, but with chat in here as well (as long as it dosent get too off topic) it will mean the list stays nice and upto date. it works well in C++: main.

I'll probably be making a regular expressions tutorial soon. Anyone want this?

At 7/21/07 11:17 AM, SpamBurger wrote: I'll probably be making a regular expressions tutorial soon. Anyone want this?

I know a number of people did some time back, and I would too. That would be great.

I like being on top. Whether it's sex or PHP Main, it's always fun. :) Seriously though, I want requests. I'm in the tutorial mood this weekend, give me a topic that's been puzzling you.

At 7/21/07 11:26 AM, Pilot-Doofy wrote: I like being on top. Whether it's sex or PHP Main, it's always fun. :) Seriously though, I want requests. I'm in the tutorial mood this weekend, give me a topic that's been puzzling you.

Do you want an idea for a specific project, or just a general PHP subject?

At 7/21/07 11:26 AM, Pilot-Doofy wrote: I like being on top. Whether it's sex or PHP Main, it's always fun. :) Seriously though, I want requests. I'm in the tutorial mood this weekend, give me a topic that's been puzzling you.

Make one on AJAX uploading. It's a bit of JS and a bit of PHP and it'd be very interesting :)

At 7/21/07 11:55 AM, elbekko wrote:

At 7/21/07 11:26 AM, Pilot-Doofy wrote: I like being on top. Whether it's sex or PHP Main, it's always fun. :) Seriously though, I want requests. I'm in the tutorial mood this weekend, give me a topic that's been puzzling you.

Make one on AJAX uploading. It's a bit of JS and a bit of PHP and it'd be very interesting :)

It's a done deal.

Uploading with PHP and Ajax

Nice list, but I got rid of my website, so if possible, could you please link my username to my NG's page?

At 7/21/07 05:39 PM, AcDiK-DR4G0N wrote: Nice list, but I got rid of my website, so if possible, could you please link my username to my NG's page?

Sure, and thanks for reminding me. I did not go through everyone's websites. If you want the link to your website to be changed, you must let me know!

Not to put down PHP: Main or anything, but the only people I see using PHP: Main as a resource are regs. There are a few newbs who use it as well, but most "users" are regs (at least, from what I can see)

So, I say, instead of worrying whether or not a tutorial shows how to create a php document, and to put .php after it, I think we should (as we, slowly but surely already are doing) merge over to more complex things, like (as already mention) AJAX, classes, advanced systems (besides forums/portals/etc)

And the only people who are going to want a complex ajax uploader with advanced features that only a true php coder could know, is the true php coders (duh?)

I'm just saying, it'd be good to put away the baby toys, and start pulling out the big guns, because PHP: Main isn't looked at by many noobs (if any) (of course, from my perspective).

I mean, PHP: Main is a GREAT resource to refresh my knowledge of php, but all the way up until some of the ajax tutorials came out (and maybe the class tutorial by different), all I ever used this for was to "refresh my memory"

Just throwing that out there....you can take it, or chuck it back at me...your call guys

At 7/22/07 02:43 AM, Momo-the-Monkey wrote: Just throwing that out there....you can take it, or chuck it back at me...your call guys

I sorta both agree, and disagree with what your saying.
Yes, a lot of the people who use PHP: Main are regs who dont need tutorials like "Starting With PHP" and the like.
However, when people with no previous knowledge with PHP post threads asking to learn, we generally redirect them to this thread. These are the people who need the "starter" tutorials.

Overall, i feel that both simple and advanced tutorials are welcomed.
Different people will use different tutorials, but i'm sure every tutorial wrote has probably helped someone or other at one point.

The more tutorials the merrier i say.

At 7/22/07 07:24 AM, DannyIsOnFire wrote: The more tutorials the merrier i say.

Most definitely!

Bah, from I see most redirect them to w3schools for anything much less this :\

At 7/22/07 02:43 AM, Momo-the-Monkey wrote: Not to put down PHP: Main or anything, but the only people I see using PHP: Main as a resource are regs. There are a few newbs who use it as well, but most "users" are regs (at least, from what I can see)

So, I say, instead of worrying whether or not a tutorial shows how to create a php document, and to put .php after it, I think we should (as we, slowly but surely already are doing) merge over to more complex things, like (as already mention) AJAX, classes, advanced systems (besides forums/portals/etc)

And the only people who are going to want a complex ajax uploader with advanced features that only a true php coder could know, is the true php coders (duh?)

I'm just saying, it'd be good to put away the baby toys, and start pulling out the big guns, because PHP: Main isn't looked at by many noobs (if any) (of course, from my perspective).

I'll certainly keep that in mind when I'm looking to make new tutorials. I can't tell people what tutorials to make, but hopefully some people will do some more advanced things like Doofy has been doing. I've been wanting to do one on using the YouTube API with PHP Simple XML for a while but I haven't had the time to sit down and write it. Hopefully soon :)

Should I make one about creating another directory (using the mkdir, and rmdir functions) for files and such? Or would it be too simple?

If it's too simple, what else should go with it?

At 7/22/07 07:56 PM, Momo-the-Monkey wrote: Should I make one about creating another directory (using the mkdir, and rmdir functions) for files and such? Or would it be too simple?

If you think it'll be informative, then that's good. It just depends on whether or not you can supply useful information.

I'm starting my regular expression tutorial now. It will be pretty basic, going over some characters used in regular expressions and a few of the PHP functions to use, because I am a beginner to regular expressions myself. Hopefully it will come out good!

Woot woot!!

PHP: Creating a new directory

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/7414 28

PHP: YouTube API with SimpleXML

Boys and girls, the following is an important message: If you are not in the supporters list above, and you have put PHP: Main in your sig, you MUST re-post here to say so. So far I've seen some people who have re-posted PHP: Main in their sigs, but haven't let me know and if you don't post here I'll forget to include you when I do the update.

At 7/23/07 04:08 PM, DFox wrote: Boys and girls, the following is an important message: If you are not in the supporters list above, and you have put PHP: Main in your sig, you MUST re-post here to say so.

Ah what the heck, i'm in ^^

Could you link mine to pilot-doofy.com?

At 7/23/07 04:33 PM, DannyIsOnFire wrote: Ah what the heck, i'm in ^^

Best link ever :)

At 7/23/07 05:17 PM, Pilot-Doofy wrote: Could you link mine to pilot-doofy.com?

Sure doofy!

At 7/23/07 04:08 PM, DFox wrote: Boys and girls, the following is an important message: If you are not in the supporters list above, and you have put PHP: Main in your sig, you MUST re-post here to say so. So far I've seen some people who have re-posted PHP: Main in their sigs, but haven't let me know and if you don't post here I'll forget to include you when I do the update.

Well, I'm one of those, but I don't really mine being in the list of suppoerters or not. But while I'm here, I'll ask you to put my name, linking to my NG page :D