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.

Whenever you create a PHP script, you’re bound to run into errors, even after hours and hours of testing. In this article, Dennis Pallett shows you how to handle and log these errors.

In this article Dennis Pallett takes a look at ten popular PHP frameworks and compares them. Includes a complete comparison chart of each framework.

PHP scripts can also be executed as command line scripts, and in this tutorial Dennis Pallett takes you through the basics of PHP command line scripts.

The long-awaited Zend Framework has finally been released, and in this article Dennis Pallett takes a first look at what it has to offer.