Spam is an ever-growing problem for websites, and drastic measures are necessary to combat it. Dennis Pallett shows us how to successfully combat spam, by creating a blacklist system.

Should I turn on register_globals in the php.ini?

Can PHP be used on Windows?

Dennis Pallett shows us how to generate a RSS feed from a website, that does not have a feed themself. If you’re in dire need of a RSS feed from a specific page or website, this is the tutorial for you!

This popular MovableType function has been ported to PHP, by Adam Kalsey. Now you can create dirified filenames of any string you use this function with.

The IIF function is a well-known function in most languages, however PHP does not contain such a function. It does now, if you include this function into your php files.

Using this function you can get the current date and time in the MySQL NOW() form, in case you want to use PHP to generate it, instead of MySQL.

This function is used to URL encode strings so they can be sent through a URL. This function also makes sure all the characters have been transformed into their entities.

This class, written by Dennis Pallett, is used to query Amazon Web Services (a developers’ token is required), and retrieve results from Amazon. The class includes automatic caching for increased stability and speed of your website.