PHP is one of the most popular web development language. Many great sites like Facebook, WordPress, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Flickr, Friendster, Digg, Sourceforge, iStockPhoto and YouSendIt are coded in PHP. So if you’re in love with web development and has not yet begun then PHP is a good choice to start. Here are some basic PHP tutorials to make awesome web sites:
1. How to create a secure PHP contact form
Learn how to create a spammer-stopping PHP contact form for your website.

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2. Basics of PHP
All the basic of PHP.

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3. Smarty Template Engine Crash Course
For those of you who have used PHP template engines, the basic concepts of Smarty should look quite familiar. In your PHP application you assign variables for use in the template, and then you display it.

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4. Integrating FirePHP for Ajax Development
There are many integrated development environments and tools available to aid in building Web 2.0 AJAX applications with PHP, but nothing comes close to the ease of use and tight Firebug integration that FirePHP provides.

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5. How to Debug in PHP
Learn how to debug in PHP.

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6. Sending e mails via SMTP with PHP mailer and Gmail
Using the SMTP server from Gmail is a good choice for mail application with less than 500 recipients a day. This tutorial shows you how to send mail messages via SMTP using PHPmailer and Gmail.

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7. How to Implement Text to Speech in PHP
It allows us to convert Text to Speech(WAV) format. In this article we will learn on how we can convert text to speech from PHP applications.

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8. Use Windows Login in PHP Applications
Use the username and password schemes that are already in place for logging in to your applications or websites. Great for intranet site work.

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9. PHP Mini Message Board Tutorial
Learn how to make your own PHP and MySQL message board. This tutorial will show you pretty much some of the basics of a bog-standard message board.

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10. Sorting 2d Arrays in PHP Anectodes and Reflections
How to use array_multisort to sort tables by column.

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