Posts Tagged ‘PHP’

Creating a PHP Calendar

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Online calendars can be useful and can vary in complexity from a simple calendar to a full blown online booking system. In this tutorial i am going to cover the former of the two.
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Custom Error Handler

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Everyone at some point has gotten that ugly PHP error message when visiting a website on the web, or seen a PHP warning message nesting at the top of the page, well in this tutorial I will show you a way that you can handle error’s yourself and only display the error messages on screen when you are debugging your application.
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Creating a PHP based IRC Bot

Monday, January 5th, 2009

By the end of this tutorial you will end up with a functioning IRC bot that can connect to a server, join channels, give and take operator, half operator, voice and protected status from a user. In the next tutorial I will discuss the different ways to “log” certain parts of the information processed by the bot, how to build a statistics table of various statistics like who has been on the longest, speaks the most, etc.

Right a few assumptions have been made, you have a text editor, at least a basic knowledge of object orientated PHP, access to an IRC client, a web server with PHP 5.3.0, preferably, if not a work around is needed later in the tutorial.
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