Plugins and Server Side Scripting
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- Using Java
Adding a Java applet to your web page.
- Using CGI
How to add programs to your web site using CGI.
- Testing Server Side Processing Before you Upload
How to install your own web server.
- Using Flash
How to add flash to your web page.
- Passing Values Between Pages (ASP and PHP)
How to remember information entered on a previous page.
- Checking the Server
Checking if your server supports PHP.
- Password Protecting Part of a Page
Using PHP to conceal part of a page from those who don't know the password
- Hiding Email Addresses Using Forms
Using a form and a form to mail PHP script to hide email addresses from spiders.
- Retrieving GET or POST data
How to retrieve all get and post data in PHP.- Securely Retrieving GET or POST data
A minor change to the code to make your system more secure.
- Securely Retrieving GET or POST data
- Using PHP or SSI in your HTM Pages
How to make PHP or SSI pages look like plain HTML.
- Environment Variables
Find out what environment variables are defined.
- Link to a Random Page
Use PHP to retrieve the directory of a folder and then randomly select one of the web pages listed in that directory. Examine the content of the file to determine what the page is about and then build a link to it.
- File Upload
Create a form to allow your visitors to upload files to your site.
- Bulk Update
You can use PHP to make bulk changes to all of the pages on your web site.
- Email Injection
Make sure that extra headers are not inserted in emails by testing for line breaks in input fields..
- Register Globals
If you don't have access to make sure register globals is turned off you can use code to produce an equivalent effect.
- "PHP in a Nutshell"
This O'Reilly book is a good reference to the most useful PHP commands.
- "Essential PHP Security"
This O'Reilly book is an essential addition to any PHP programmers bookcase.
- Form Actions
How to attach a server side script to a form.
- Form Validations
Some regular expressions that you can use to validate common input types.
- Displaying PDFs using PHP
How to use PHP to load a PDF from somewhere that your visitor can't access directly.
- "Programming PHP"
This O'Reilly book contains useful information for all PHP programmers from the beginner to the most advanced.
- "Perl Hacks"
If you are deep into Perl programming then you may be able to understand this O'Reilly book and may find out something that you didn't know.
- "Building Scalable Web Sites"
Small applications have a tendency to get larger and this book shows you how to plan for that so as to make the expansion easier to handle.
- "Learning PHP & mySQL"
This book introduces you to both PHP and databases (in the form of mySQL) and then shows you how to use them together.
- "PHP Cookbook"
Maybe the best reference book for looking up how to do things in PHP - if only you could trust that the author knew what he was talking about.
- Calendars
You need to know what the different calendars actually are if you are going to use the PHP functions that convert between them.
- Learning MySQL
A review of the only book on MySQL that most people will ever need.
- Protecting PHP Includes
You can stop people accessing the content of your PHP include files.
- Changing mySQL Passwords
cPanel doesn't appear to have an option for changing passwords for your mySQL users. Here's how to do it.
- "mySQL Cookbook"
A huge problem solving resource for those who are already familiar with mySQL.
- CAPTCHA
A tutorial on how to create a simple CAPTCHA image.
- "mySQL pocket reference"
The almost perfect reference to mySQL.
- "Regular Expression pocket reference"
A useful reference to Regular Expressions.
- Embedded Image in Email
How do you embed images?
- Creating a Database Using cPanel
If your hosting uses cPanel then creating a database to use with your server side scripting is as easy as 1,2,3.
- Limited FTP Accounts with cPanel
Give someone FTP access to just one folder on your site.
- Creating a Sub-Domain using cPanel
How to create subdomains of your domain using cpanel.
- "PHP 6 and MYSQL 5
An excellent introduction to the current (and future) versions of PHP and mySQL..
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