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WordPress Tutorial – Table of Contents in a Page

This tutorial will explain how to add a table of contents to a generic WordPress page. Our table of contents will be a list of posts in chronological order. This tutorial is a follow up to a comment on the post for my WordPress Table of Contents Widget by Ashley who indicated that she would be interested in the capability of having a table of contents in a page rather then the sidebar.

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Posted September 23rd, 2009 in Tutorials, Web, WordPress - 139 Comments »

Introduction to PHP: Installing PHP (Windows)

This tutorial will take you through the steps needed to install PHP on Microsoft Windows. I’m using Vista, but with minor changes, these instructions should also be valid for Windows XP and Windows 7 as well.

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Posted July 15th, 2009 in PHP, Tutorials - 32 Comments »

Introduction to PHP: Hello World + MySQL

This tutorial builds on the previous tutorial – Introduction to PHP: Hello World and as such, you should take that tutorial first if you have not already.

In this tutorial, we are going to take our previous Hello World script, and store the date in a database. We will then add the last access time to our original script.

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Posted June 30th, 2009 in PHP, Tutorials - 81 Comments »

Introduction to PHP: Hello World

This tutorial will introduce you to PHP with the customary Hello World script. You will be introduced to the echo language construct and the date() function. The goal of this tutorial is to show you how to output text, and display the current date.

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Posted June 18th, 2009 in PHP, Tutorials - 2 Comments »