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Plugins and Server Side Scripting

• 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.
  
   
• 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.
   
• "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.
   
• "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?
   
• "PHP 6 and MYSQL 5"
  An excellent introduction to the current (and future) versions of PHP and mySQL.
   
• Common HTML Content
  The best way to include common content into all your web pages is tu use a server side solution. Two commonly available ways to do it are using either SSI or PHP includes.
   
• "High Performance mySQL"
  This book covers all the aspects of mySQL databases except for the basic SQL commands covered by the beginners books.
   
• "Refactoring SQL Applications"
  Getting your SQL to work better can have a dramatic affect on your script.
   
• "A Sane Approach to Database Design"
  The book for anyone who needs to design a database.
   
• "Web Security Testing Cookbookn"
  A practical guide to how to test for security holes in a web application.
   
• Adding Tell a Friend to a Web Page
  A couple of pieces of PHP and HTML code that can be used to add a "Tell a Friend" option to any web page.
   
• "SQL in a Nutshell"
  A complete desktop reference to SQL including four popular implementations.
   
• "Head First PHP and mySQL"
  Not quite up to the standard set by some of the other Head First books but still useful.
   
• "Visual Quickstart PHP"
  An expert on one subject isn't necessarily an expert on other subjects.
   
• "Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site"
  The growing compexity of the two subjects is making it more difficult to properly introduce both in the one small book.
   
• "Learning PHP, MySQL,& JavaScript"
  Not content with trying to introduce one or two subjects in the same book, this one tries for three.
   
• Exporting Web Data to Spreadsheets
  Spreadsheets use proprietary formats and so an intermediate format is needed to transfer data from the web into a spreadsheet..
   

If you have a different PHP or mySQL question please ask Felgall.

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