Kohana is a PHP 5 framework that uses the Model View Controller (MVC) architectural pattern. There are several reasons why you should choose Kohana but the main ones are security, weightlessness and simplicity. In this tutorial, I’ll introduce its main features, and, with a simple demonstration, I’ll...

So you want to build a Facebook application and reach literally millions of users. Well luckily, writing an application using the API isn’t too hard to learn (for the basics, anyway). In this tutorial we will write a Facebook app that generates a random quote to display on the user’s profile.

In object oriented programming, polymorphism is a powerful and fundamental tool. It can be used to create a more organic flow in your application. This tutorial will describe the general concept of polymorphism, and how it can easily be deployed in PHP.

In this Nettuts+ mini-series, we’ll build a web application from scratch, while diving into a great new PHP framework that’s rapidly picking up steam, called — a simple and elegant PHP 5.3 framework. First up, we’ll learn more about Laravel, and why it’s such a great choice for your next PHP-based...

In this Nettuts+ , we’ll build a web application from scratch, while diving into a great new PHP framework that’s rapidly picking up steam, called .In this lesson, we’ll be working on an integral part of any web application: the Models. Along the way, we’ll learn about Laravel’s amazing ORM...

The NETTUTS community asked for it. So here you are! One of the innovations of the web is online shopping. It allows us to buy things without ever leaving the comfort of our homes. However, the most basic element of online shopping, the shopping cart, has not evolved much. In this tutorial, we’re going...

In this tutorial, we will be writing a PHP class that will fetch, cache, and display your favorite tweets in a beautiful CSS3 interface.

Let’s admit it: the PHP community has lagged a bit, when it comes to advocating test-driven development. We know we should, but, even to this day, a sizable portion of the community does not. In this new series of videos and tutorials, created by the Nettuts+ team, we’re hoping to change that. Trust...

The offers its bundles system to allow developers to redistribute useful packages of code, or to organize applications into several “bundles” of smaller applications.In this tutorial, we will learn the ins and outs of creating and distributing bundles from scratch.

CodeIgniter is a simple and lightweight PHP framework used to create powerful web applications. Today, we are going to do something nifty: we’ll combine user names and subdomains to make for a more cohesive user experience.

Here we will be creating a simple about page that is powered by PHP, HTML5 and CSS3. It will present your contact information to your visitors, with an option for downloading it as a vCard (useful for importing it in third party applications).

In this tutorial we are going to build a XML backed testimonial viewer, which, along with jQuery and XSL transformations, can display the set on your product pages.