Show the Most Popular Categories with PHP
In this tutorial, you’ll learn a quick way to determine what the most popular tags are in a series of tagged entries.
Author: Jason Lengstorf
Optimizing MySQL Queries with JOINs
This week, I wanted to share some of my recent experiments with MySQL queries in regard to lowering the number of requests sent to the database server and, hopefully, avoiding the bottleneck that can form on sites that rely heavily on database interaction.
Build a Menu with Recursive Functions
The goal of our exercise today is to build a menu, complete with sub-menu, all based off one function that runs recursively on an array.
A Tip for Handling Arrays
This quick tip shows an easy trick to simplify the job of looping through an array in which something different happens to the first element.
Reading RSS with PHP
In this tutorial, we’ll use SimpleXML and a custom PHP class to load and parse a user’s Flickr RSS feed, isolate the pieces of information we need, and output the data as HTML.