The following article contains all web development articles that have been published in January 09. The articles are provided in PDF format to make them readable on most operating systems and devices. We are providing article compilations to give you the chance to read the articles offline and keep them as reference without having to [...]
Web Development: PHP – what role does it fill
Before we try to work with PHP we need understand the role it fills – what problem does it address. The World Wide Web is built on a client-server model. A client computer requests a page which is supplied by a Web Server. The browser then renders the page for the user to view. [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Jan 8th, 2009
- Comments: 21
Web Development: How does PHP work?
When someone starts learning web development they usually start with HTML and CSS, and many people get stuck there without ever experiencing the wonderful workd of server side scripting like PHP or ASP. I’ll be talking about PHP here, but the basic rules for ASP and others are the same though.
The most important thing to [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Jan 5th, 2009
- Comments: 3
Web Development: A brief history of time()
Part of the beauty of PHP to me is the number of really useful variables that are built in. Some of these might seem very odd at first, but once you start creating pages you will run into some problems which you’ll find can be solved by a function which seemed totally useless when you [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Jan 2nd, 2009
- Comments: 18
Web Development: Standardizing variables to code faster
Welcome to a new exploratory post here on gHacks! I actually work as a web designer specializing in standalone PHP and MySQL based sites, and I’ve always wanted to write a bit about coding, but it doesn’t really fit my own blog and I just don’t have time to start a whole new blog for [...]
Portable Web Server
Server2Go is a portable web server that can be run from any storage space in a Windows environment. It can be placed on USB devices, removable devices, CDs, DVDs or the hard drive of the computer. It requires no installation at all and can be run right from the location where it has been placed [...]
Quick PHP Testing And Debugging Server
HTML websites can be easily tested and debugged locally because no additional software but a text editor and a web browser are needed to do just that. Things change when you turn to PHP because PHP requires a web server that executes the php commands and returns the html code of the website.
I have detailed [...]

