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 ...

Dynamic Web content with PHP: Keep site visitors coming back Your email has been sent Web sites are generally more compelling and useful when content is dynamically controlled. Learn the basics of ...

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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 ...

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.NET is much more than Microsoft’s own tools and languages. The open source PeachPie brings PHP to the table. One of the more interesting things about .NET is its extensibility. It’s not just a ...

Perl is a language often associated with text processing and CGI. PHP is a language often associated with dynamic Web pages. Both are very popular with Web developers. Often, each of these languages ...

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 ...