Do you have a script that takes a while to process? Wanna start outputting before the entire script finishes processing? Learn how to use PHP output buffering functions and have them actually work! Don't make your visitors wait for a long script to process.

JavaScript is mainly used as a client side scripting language, while PHP is a server side technology. Unlike Java or ASP.Net, PHP doesn't have tools to make it work client side. That is why you need to combine JavaScript and PHP scripts to develop powerful web-applications.

A printable PDF PCRE regular expressions cheat sheet. Featuring: functions and their arguments, base character classes, meta characters, quantifiers, pattern modifiers, point based assertions and subpattern modifiers and assertions.

PEAR's HTML_BBCodeParser package is a BBCODE parser. This tutorial will teach you how to use it.

PEAR's HTML_CSS is a CSS Generator which can be used in combination with HTML_Page. This tutorial teaches you how to use HTML_CSS.

HTML_Page is a PEAR package which is an XHTML Page Generator. This tutorial will teach you all about it and how to use it.

This PEAR tutorial will teach you how to use PEAR's Finest Templating engine: HTML_Template_Sigma

The author notes "The Java extension is an extremely exciting tool. By learning how to use this module, you can extend PHP by the power of all available Java classes. To show you the basics of the Java extension, this article will cover installation and a few code examples of using PHP and Java together."

Reference counting is one of the hottest new features in PHP 4. It reduces the memory consumption of your PHP applications, improves performance, and provides you with some sophisticated programming tools. To get the most out of this new PHP 4 feature, it's important to understand exactly how it works and how it differs from PHP 3. Topics include: Data values in PHP 3, What is reference counting, Advantages of reference counting, Reference counting in PHP 4, Aliasing: added language flexibility in PHP 4, and How will reference counting effect you?.

Learn how to send PHP to the background while you do other things. Great for mass mailing, number crunching, etc.