Learn more about the CURL library in this article. Dennis Pallett will take you through the basics of the CURL library, including its options and various functions.

In this article Dennis Pallett explains what the output buffer is, how to use it, and shares some neat tricks possible with the output buffer. Samples and demo code included.

This codesnippet is used to force a download of any type of file, including images and html pages.

Handling dates and times in PHP and MySQL can be a tricky task at times, and that’s why in this article Dennis Pallett discusses the date/time problem, and gives a solid solution.

In this second part of the ‘Creating a chat script with PHP and Ajax’, we start from scratch and create a PHP-based chatroom, using Ajax, the Prototype JS library and JSON. Live demo and project files included.