In this first ever full-blown PHP5 tutorial on PHPit, Dennis Pallett takes you through the steps of creating a simple MVC system from scratch. Complete source code of the MVC system is included (see the ‘Conclusion’).

In this second part of the article series on PHP’s image functions Dennis Pallett shows you how to resize images on-the-fly and how to dynamically add a watermark to an image. Full demo code included.

Learn more about “Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management” written by Marc Delisle in this book review by Dennis Pallett.

In this first part of a new article series on PHP’s image functions Dennis Pallett will show you how to open, display and save images with the GD library. You will also learn how to build a simple image converter script, with full source included.

Ever wanted to build your own web mail interface or auto-responder? In this tutorial Dennis Pallett shows you the basics of reading e-mail with PHP and a POP3 class.

In this book review Dennis Pallett takes a closer look at “Smarty PHP Template Programming and Applications” published by Packt Publishing.

Dennis Pallett shows you how to properly use globals in this article, where you will learn everything about the global keyword, the Singleton pattern, the Registry pattern and a Request Wrapper.

In this tutorial Dennis Pallett shows you how to create a settings class which can handle multiple formats (PHP, INI, XML and YAML) using PHP and polymorphism.

In this book review Dennis Pallett reviews “PHP 5 Objects, Patterns and Practice” written by Matt Zandstra and published by Apress.

Learn more about Test Driven Development in this article. Dennis Pallett will show you how to apply the principles of Test Driven Development with an example project.