Ever needed to get back to a previous version of a C include file, or a PHP script, because the customer changed his mind and decided that he liked "that previous thing" better? Find out how to reduce stress levels - and hair loss - by handing your code over to CVS, the powerful open-source version control system.

Isn't it great to go to a web site and it appears as though it was designed just for you. This 3-page article will help you design a web site which makes visitors feel like it was designed just for them using PHP and MySQL.

Templates let you completely separate your PHP code from the HTML, which makes the HTML graphic designers very happy and keeps them from messing up your precious programming. This tutorial explains how to use PHPLIB Template in your PHP scripts. Main topics include: Using PHPLIB Template, Nested Templates, and Appending Template Text.

This article describes how to create an online database of movie entries to practice incorporating PHP templates into your web sites.

One of the most powerful features of PHP is its ability to reduce the amount of site maintenance you need to do. By setting up a consistent site template, you can reduce the effort needed to create new pages, and you can also make it much easier to change the design of your entire site. This tutorial takes you through a simple example of how to set up and access a site template.

This tutorial explains how to identify IE4+ or NS4+ on a windows 32 bit platform (all else is "OtherBrowser") and include different html Web pages for different browser types using PHP.

When you run a database-driven website, it makes sense to generate pages on the fly. PHP, MySQL, and Apache let you do just that. But they don't make it pretty. How many times have you had to create a URL that looks like this: http://schmoop.com/snurk.php3?snurk=123, when what you wanted was a URL like http://schmoop.com/snurk/123. The PHP Snurk lets you make such search-engine friendly URLs for dynamically-generated pages. All you need is the ability to run custom CGI scripts, an .htaccess file, and a little bit of time and effort.

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.

Simple tutorial showing how to use the function include for simplifying your Web page authoring. Useful for header and footer insertion for multiple pages.

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