PHP Hacks is essentially a collection of ‘bite-size’ PHP scripts that you can easily drop into your websites. Besides being able to use the hacks straight away in your projects, the PHP code/hacks are clearly explained making them good tutorials for learning how you might do something in PHP. SOME TOPICS/HACKS THAT STAND OUT: Creating…

Co-written by the guy who invented PHP (Rasmus Lerdorf,) this is a must-buy book for anyone getting into PHP or web programming in general. What can I say; this book is so well written and to the point, that I found that the information seemed to just flow from the pages. Who is this book…

Another great book from O’Reilly. This book targets beginners to PHP but NOT total beginners to code and programming – I think that certain explanations of the basic programming concepts, may confuse a some people. Doesn’t matter though, once you’ve done my free video tutorials (found on this site,) you will be able to breeze…

Part two of my beginners video tutorials on how to use PHP to process HTML forms. Video: PHP and forms video tutorial Having covered the basics of forms in the first video, I now jump into the actual PHP code and introduce (for the first time) a built-in PHP construct called ‘Super Globals’. We learn…

In this article/podcast, I look at what php interfaces are, and when and why we would use them over classes. AUDIENCE: To follow along, you must know the basics of object oriented php. – Download the MP3: PHP Interfaces Explained. The following notes are meant to support the podcast … I left the details in…

A quick podcast where I explain the basics behind what database driven websites are. This podcast targets total beginners. Database Driven Websites Explained.

I been away from making videos for about a week now because of a surprize root canal. This ultra-painful experience (I actually lost 10 lbs!) has prevented me from doing any video work (any work at all,) for last little while. Let that be a lesson to you all: If you grind your teeth in…

I’ve received many emails over the last few years, with complaints of how confusing PHP seemed … of how hard the documentation on the web seemed to be. So I created killerphp.com to help those web designers who seemed to be more inclined to design and not to code. THE WEBSITE LAUNCHED I put up…

In this video, I review a few key aspects about forms that relate directly to form processing with PHP. … I cover these three attributes: The ‘action’ attribute The ‘method’ attribute The ‘name’ attribute In part 2, we will get into practical examples. PS: these videos are still targeting web designers … so if you…

Just released a new video on PHP associative arrays. Associative arrays are one of the two types of arrays found in PHP and is (in my opinion) one of the most important aspects of the php programming language. PHP associative arrays are used everywhere and are the underlying mechanism to so many important things in…