If any data, such as temperature versus day or stock market values, is to be presented in a meaningful fashion, it really needs to be presented visually. This usually takes the form of charts. Various forms of charts exist, such as line graphs, bar graphs, pie charts, and so on.

A common web application is having users sign up for some service. Often you want to confirm whether the given email truly exists. Realistically, there is only one accurate way of determining whether an email account exists and is active. You must actually send an email to the user and require that the user either respond to it or click a link in it to verify that the user received the email.

When creating a website, navigation is always a problem. On a large complicated website, it can become a burden. Sometimes, having hierarchical drop-down menus can make this easier, allowing for a small amount of space on the screen to be used (the initial menu) to present a complicated menu system.

In the modern days, most of the sites are database driven. That means that your site is actually an application which retrieves data from a DBMS ( database managment system, eg MySQL) , parses the data and shows the result to the user.

Well, you want your script to open up a file? Edit it/rewrite it/do whatever? Okay… you can do that using PHP! It seems pretty basic I know, but you still need to master a few commands.

Lots of programmers like PHP for its ability to code and develop web applications fast. Code-debugging is a lot easier than with PERL or C. However, there is one thing a lot of developers are puzzled about, “How to run PHP Scripts with crontab?”

Why not let your own script fetch the statistics directly from google adsense reporting site? It’s always much easier to have the data locally in your own database, and then create scripts to display the stats in the way you are interested in.

Have you ever thought of creating excel files from your web site? Excel is a very useful format for lots of purposes.

PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. It is Google’s way of measuring the importance of web site.

This tutorial will show you how to make a list of the top referring domains to your site. This list requires no signup from users at all, they just have to link to your site and they will show up.