A while back I wrote an article for beginners on database driven websites: ‘Database driven websites: what are they and how are they built?’ The article explains the basic concepts behind dynamic websites, with the idea of making learning PHP that much easier. If you’re new to the game (of PHP,) I would strongly suggest…

I’ve read 20+ books on PHP and have watched many videos. One thing that I found consistent about all of them was how they were not ‘friendly’ to non-nerd types. Why? Probably because (most of the time,) only hardcore code-monkeys seem to be writing these books. That means either one of two things: They forget…

One of the two main reasons I put up Killerphp.com is that I believe every web designer should learn PHP. It is a position that (as far as I know) is unique on the Web – no other web-nerds have mentioned it so far. I suppose I could go on and write about why I…

Hi, It has been a while since my last post, my apologies. But there has been a good reason for this and this reason will be revealed soon. Sorry I can’t give more information, but I have to keep this under wraps until we go public. Thanks, Stefan

Intermediate level book for active php programmers. From the book’s cover: ‘Recipes and solutions for PHP programmers’ One of the authors is senior programmer at Digg (a big nerd hang out,) so you know this book is going to cover the latest php techniques … This is a very good book, actually one of the…

I have a new article appearing in issue 125 of Web Designer Magazine – the November issue. Article title: Learn Object Oriented Programming (OOP) in PHP Sample from the article: With the release of php5, php programmers finally had the power to code with the ‘big boys’. Like Java and C#, php finally has a…

Hi, I wanted to mention that I have a new PHP article out in the Oct issue (#124) of Web Designer Magazine. Article Title: ‘Learn to build a php contact form while learning to process forms and send email with php.’ I’ve also released Quicktime versions of the PHP video tutorials – they come with…

I’ve written a new PHP book review that can be found at killersites.com. – I’ve been out of the picture for a little while, but I’m about to get back into the swing of things and will be working on completing a few new PHP videos within the next week. That said, I haven’t been…

I’ve just posted a quick intro FAQ to AJAX at killersites.com and I thought that some PHP’ers might find it useful as well. Stefan Mischook So what is this Ajax thing I keep hearing about? Ajax is actually an acronym which stands for Asynchronous Javascript and Xml. The term Ajax is used to indicate the…

Publication Date: 2005 So what makes this book different from the others? In a word – simplicity. This book, more than any other I’ve read on PHP, is geared toward the total beginner. All you need to know is HTML and you should be comfortable. The book opens up with a good chapter on installing…