This short tutorial will guide you through a hypothetical process of adding a movie rating system to a movie database site. Goes over the PHP code and MySQL queries.
This tutorial builds on my tutorial that exaplins hwo to create an IRC Bot that was written in PHP. I tell you how to log chats in a channel to a file or to a database. Even both, if you want. You can later analyze these logs to create stats about your channel!
The register_globals configuration option is a deadly one, but knowing how to develop with it on and off can benefit you greatly. Reading this will help you get a hang of dealing with it all in a fast and easy pace.
Metatags are a way for you to define your web page and web site to the outside world. You can declare the title, keywords and description, which help your placement in search engines. In addition, you can specify who owns the copyright, how often the page is to be visited by search engines and many other useful pieces of information.