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.
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.
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.
This tutorial shows you how to create a template-based Web site using FastTemplate class by a href=http://www.thewebmasters.net/php/CDI/a. By using FastTemplate you can change the look of your entire web site in seconds, use abstract programming without HTML, and your Webpage designer does not need to take care of all that "fuzzy" code.