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Beginning PHP: 6 Must-See Sites, Programs & Articles For New Developers

These days there’s a wealth of information online for anyone wishing to learn a new programming language.

So here’s a useful list of 6 high quality sites which will help you learn PHP better and faster.

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How To Create A Great Contact Form Part 1

Welcome to the latest Beginning PHP tutorial.

Today I’m going to show you how to create a great contact form from start to finish.

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Beating Form Spam Redux

Yesterday I showed you a quick and easy way to beat form spam with little more than CSS.

However I also said that when it comes to beating spam there’s no such thing as overkill.

So here’s another method which only occurred to me recently, but should be even more effective at beating the spammers because there’s less reliance on the client-side.

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Beginning PHP: A Self-Updating Copyright Notice For Your Footer

We are starting a Beginner’s Guide to PHP here on Division by Zero, running alongside our usual posts. It will include tutorials, helpful snippets of code and pointers to help those who have just opened their first PHP tag.

Just to get us started down the road, let’s begin at the end… with a simple little snippet of PHP that you can use to add a self-updating copyright notice to your site.

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