Editor's Pick in Web Programming, May 2005
A wonderful scripting language, PHP has unfortunately proven fallible in security matters. Not to worry, however, safe authentication is only one tutorial away.

Editor's Pick in Web Programming, September 2006
This article helps you to create a Contact form on your website. Every bit of the script is presented with easy to read instructions.

Editor's Pick in PHP Tutorials, April 2007
This author has revised his already excellent article to make it even simpler for you to create a PHP Image Thumbnailer. This article will help you to add the code necessary to automatically resize images proportionally.

Editor's Pick in Web Programming, August 2006
This is an awesome tutorial that will show you step by step how to create a way to take a poll on your site. People for the most part enjoy participating in polls so this could also help you bring extra traffic to your site.

Use this simple script for a basic click counter to display the amount of hits to your site.

The problem with my basic PHP Mail Form tutorial is that it offers no protection from spam and meta tag injection. This is fine if you have a very low-traffic site not listed at major search engines, or have a private website, but bigger sites need more.

Send SMS with PHP

One thing you dont see too much, is tutorials on object oriented php. Now some may be familiar with object from Java and C++, and then on the other hand, many of you may have no clue what object is. For this tutorial, you need to be pretty fluent in php.

1. Create a new file (newfile.php) and copy and paste the below code into that file, then save it.

Today we learn how to create a "Tell a Friend" script with HTML and PHP. If you want to exercise on my files, click here to download them!