I have decided to add a new pool every month that will help us in better deciding various actions that we’ll have to take regarding php developing. We have inserted in the past some pools too but they weren’t opened on a strict time bases. So, please vote for this month’s poll in the right side of the home page.
To see the archive please refer to http://www.videophpblog.com/months-poll/.

Happy coding,

Alex

Regular expressions? What they are? How do they help us? How to use them? This is what you’ll learn from this series of tutorials. Regular expressions can help us very much if we have to find different portions of string in a bigger context. If we have a pattern for those string than we can make a regular expression that we will use in our search.

There are a lot of blog softwares out there but the by far si WordPress. It is fully customisable, easy to use, it has a lot of plugins, it is SEO friendly etcetera. In this tutorial you will learn to install WordPress.

I know for sure that every programmer came at least once into a quite a nasty problem and that is “What the hell have I coded here ?”. We all use the IF…ELSE statements and we all get sometimes into veeery big codes where you don’t understand a thing. In this tutorial you will learn about the SWICH statement and the TERNARY operator witch are very helpful in this cases.

A tutorial that will learn you to build an email handling PHP script that sends info from your on line form to your e-mail.

Jochen Hartmann (YouTube API and Tools Team) demonstrates the basics of how to use the PHP Client Library and YouTube Data API to upload videos.

If you need to integrate MySQL data into Flash with PHP than this is the screencast to see. It goes into details and explains very good and simple what you need. This is embedded from tutorialvid.com and has a higher resolution than those from YouTube. The down point is that you have to login in order [...]

This is a very interesting tutorial if you would like to build your own calculator written in PHP. It guides you through all the steps and it is very clean written and has a good error checking. It uses if, witch and other math functions.

This is the perfect video tutorial for begginers hwo want to make from the beggining a good database layout. Take this very serios because the seying “think first and act later” must be taken in consideration when talking about databases.

Debugging is usualy considerd quite a hard procedure that every programmer must do in the long proccess of developing an application. In this video tutorial we will see in action how to debug an AJAX and PHP application using Firefox with Zend toolbar and firebug toolbar and Zend Studio coupled with Zend Debugger.