Templates can bring order and structure to a web site. This article describes how templates can be used to control the page layout for a site that is currently composed of many pages of static HTML, using a popular template class and a new feature of PHP4.

Here you will learn some of the special PHP5 class functions while creating a massive templating class (in power, not size). This templating class will be capable of an unlimited (only limited by system) number of loops, embedded loops, and references. It is the perfect templating class.

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This tutorial shows you how to make a site database-driven, but still indexable by search engines. It also explains how to create a site to be co-brandable whose look-and-feel are dependent on which "affiliate" site was being accessed.

Explains how to change your Web page background based on date in two ways: using if elseif and else statement, and using array.

How to have a single file containg header information and use it in all other files? It is very simple to do this using php. Most of the commecrical website use common header and footer files. It will be so helpfull because when we want to change any information it is enough if we do it in a single file rather then duplicating it.

This tutorial will show you how to create a script so that you can have multiple categories with unlimited sub-categories in each. They can be as deep as you want. This is very useful for organising data/items. A prime example of this is a link directory which has multiple categories. Part 2 of 2.

This article/column describes how to create a simple single table, single template content management system. It shows you how to make a powerful yet simple data driven website using <a href="http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/10112.html">DataMan</a>. You can put a site up in less than 30mins.

User Personalization is a must-know and must-have for any site thats wants to make it somewhere. It customizes the user's experience, causing them to just plain 'like' your site better. Learn the basics of making such as system in PHP.

BM's DeveloperWorks website has a nice tutorial on Midgard. Written by David Seager, a software engineer at IBM, the article describes setting up a basic Midgard site. The article also does a good job of setting up a general context for what Midgard is and how it works.