Since I started selling PHP scripts from my site I have had three copies of one or other of my scripts stolen. I know this because right from when I first started selling the scripts I have had code in place to at least track when a copy of one of the scripts I have [...]

The interactive web section of the site was becoming a little messy with pages on web hosting, server side scripting and plugins all jumbled together. This has now been rectified as I have split the plugins and server side scripting page into three.

ISPs and Hosting
PHP and mySQL
Plugins and Other Server Side Scripting

Even though PHP 6 is still a long way from being released there are already books appearing (such as this one) that cover what that version is intended to include. In this book you get information on using PHP 5 (and 6) with mySQL 5 to create applications that will be very usable on current [...]

With Easter now not all that far away it seems appropriate that the latest addition to my site be a new unobtrusive version of my Easter Calculator script. This version not only uses unobtrusive techniques to keep the JavaScript completely out of the HTML but it also includes a corresponding PHP Easter calculator that will, [...]

About the only effective way of protecting your images on the web is to watermark the images themselves. Any other form of “protection” is useless because the images are downloaded to your visitors’ computers in order for their browser to be able to display the web page and that image file can therefore be easily [...]

A few weeks ago I attempted to install XAMPP and when I couldn’t get that to work I tried WAMP5 which didn’t work either.
In both cases the install ran with few problems and it was only when I went to create the databases I needed using phpmyadmin that I struck problems. More recently I did [...]

While my Password Protected Area script provides the basic code to create your own membership area on your site, it still requires some knowledge of PHP in order to be able to configure your actual pages if you want to do anything more than just provide basically static pages that are only accessible once your [...]

After the adventures that I had a few weeks ago trying to install XAMPP and WAMP5, having to manually edit the config files, and still not being able to get either of them to work, I decided to have another go - this time with separate installs for Apache, PHP, mySQL, and phpMyAdmin.
The individual installs [...]