PHP

PHP is a server-wide web programming language. It is embedded directly into the HTML code for a page and is interpreted by the web server before the page is sent to a user. It is completely free, and is a sort of mixture between Perl and C. The core engine is made by a company called Zend, who also make some commercial products for PHP.

Example Programs

The following is a list of PHP scripts that I've written and that may be of some use to other people. Unless otherwise noted, all code is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Bessie the Annihilator

Bessie is a web-based grading program that uses MySQL and PHP. It was written by myself and three other people over the course of three months for my software engineering class. Bessie was never meant to be completely finished; the vast majority of the grade came from the design documents, not the actual computer code.

PHP Tips & Tricks

This is a list of resources on the web about PHP that I found interesting. They tend to be articles about various ways of doing things in PHP.

• Secure Variable Transmissions - How to prevent users from manipulating GET/POST/Cookie variables between pages.
• File Uploading in PHP 4 - How to transfer files to the web server through a form on a web page.
• PHP: Hackers Paradise Revisited - An interesting look at how to become a better PHP coder.
• PHP Weekly Summary - A brief weekly treatment of the latest development on PHP itself, including the engine and its extensions.