Dynamic websites are slowly making their way toward innovating the visitor experience. With Web 2.0 holding PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) as one of the most effective server-side scripting languages to accommodate these standards, you can transform your website’s content from a static form to a more user friendly one.
Suppose you have to send three values: element Id, row and column compounded in one URL parameter. That is simple, parameters can be concatenated and delimited with special character. But how to send multiple of these complex URL parameters? This post should give an answer.
In my post From MySQL to XML with PHP, I described how to generate XML from the MySQL database. Instead of printing out XML, generated XML can be buffered and transformed with XSL to the HTML. Maybe it sounds complicated for a simple process of displaying MySQL data on the WEB page.
In this tutorial, our goal is to create an FTP class with PHP that is well written, useful, and expandable.
Web services are taking over the world. I credit Twitter’s epic rise to the availability of a simple but rich API. Why not use the same model for your own sites? Here’s how to create a basic web service that provides an XML or JSON response using some PHP and MySQL.