Free PHP Scripts and PHP Tutorials

Free PHP scripts and PHP tutorials linked to below contain a wealth of PHP info for anyone from beginners to experts. Here is a great source of help with PHP, whether you need PHP tutorials for beginners or advanced PHP tutorials. There are tutorials on interfacing PHP with MySQL databases, counters, polls, security, converting Javascript arrays to PHP arrays, functions, queries, interfacing PHP and Ajax, interfacing PHP with XPATH, writing nearly any type of file with PHP, and much more. So check out our free PHP tutorials. Comments are welcome!

But the main thing to keep in mind here is that OUR SITE HAS THE BIGGEST LIBRARY OF FREE, TESTED PHP APPLICATIONS WITH ACCOMPANYING SCRIPTS AND TUTORIALS OF ANY WEBSITE ON THE ENTIRE INTERNET! See for yourself. There are plenty of sites with a couple of apps—often untested. There are tons of sites that explain commands, functions, techniques, etc., and they often give examples. Some of these are untested—they don't work entirely right or they don't work at all. Some sites have libraries of scripts with neither explanations nor evidence that they tested them. Some of the scripts are not free, while others don't even exist—their links go nowhere: they're broken. Some sites have a lot of hastly thrown together code with neither explanations nor evidence that they tested it that seems to have only the purpose of getting visitors to check out their ads. No site besides ours has a load of tested, free PHP applications with free PHP scripts and free PHP tutorials accompanying them.

The good news is that there are loads of PHP programmers willing to share opinions, ideas, scripts, classes, links, and advice. The bad news is that some of it is just the spreading of misinformation. Some of the scripts are simply bad—they do not work. We've tried plenty. There are some good scripts and good PHP sites out there. Also plenty of weak sites. But, like we say, we're very happy they're willing to share—we've gotten some cool and useful ideas from some sites. Even when they tried to do something and failed or shared a script that we tested and found it not to work—sometimes they had fine basic methods and ideas but simply had been too lazy to actually try out the scripts and fix the bugs in them before presenting them. At times these sites saved us time as their scripts gave us insights that saved us extra work. So: thanks, people.

We do not claim to have perfect code, nor do we claim our ways of doing things are the best ways, nor do we promise our code has no security holes (what code doesn't, in the final analysis?). But we do claim that WE HAVE TESTED OUR PHP CODES, SCRIPTS, AND APPLICATIONS AND MADE THEM WORK ON THE INTERNET before we were willing to share them on our website. This sets us apart from a ton of sites, and the fact that we have so many free, tested PHP applications that have been shown to work ALL ON ONE SITE puts us in a class by ourselves. If this is incorrect, show us where there are more such sites (and we don't mean directories full of untested junk, broken links, spammy ads, and code rip-offs—we mean serious apps with honest testing, real standards, and lack of "page not found" errors). So now it's time to put up or shut up. Here are the free PHP apps (with scripts and tutorials) found on our site:

PHP Application Index

Incidentally, these are not just scripts we threw together without testing. We tested everything on the site before it went into these site pages. And they are not just slapped onto the website without explanation. There are tutorials that accompany each of our free PHP scripts. If you take the time to read our pages, the least we can do is take the time to test the scripts and explain them. We are more likely to over-explain than under-explain, which is perfect for you beginners out there. If you like our scripts, a link to our site would be much appreciated!

If you need some really valuable info on how to use JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) in PHP and JavaScript to convert strings and arrays from PHP to JavaScript, you'll find it in our JSON tutorial. We use it often in our scripts. To use it, make sure your host server has PHP 5.2 or higher enabled on the server. It is enabled by default in PHP, but if your host has it disabled, have him enable it. Most hosting plans include MySQL databases and JSON-enabled PHP 5.2 or better. PHP added a JavaScript Object Notation—JSON—extension to PHP 5.2, which was previously only available as an add-on, and it is now standard stuff in codes with both PHP and JavaScript in them. You want a huge PHP string array converted into a JavaScript array? No problem with JSON. Try it without JSON—and rots-o-ruck!

The good thing about our PHP scripts is that we took the time to write the tutorials as well as the time to test these scripts before putting them on our site.

W3Schools has said that "PHP runs on different platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, etc.), and is compatible with almost all servers used today (Apache, IIS, etc.). PHP is FREE to download from the official PHP resource: http://www.php.net, and it is easy to learn and runs efficiently on the server side." PHP is a general-purpose scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document. But what you and we care about is all the cool stuff you can do with it, as you can see below. Whether it's chat rooms, address books, private messaging, CMS, website indexing and website searching, or other neat stuff, the bottom line is that PHP is very neat stuff. In combination with MySQL it's even better. Throw in Ajax and JSON and you've got the recipe for wonderful websites, great applications, and endless hours of fun!

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Free PHP Scripts and PHP Tutorials

PHP Application Index

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