Cyber-PHP

Join FANN (Fast Artificial Neural Networks) library co-authoras he introduces you to the wonderful world of artificialintelligence—with PHP!

This article provides an introduction to the power of neuralnetworks through the Fast Artificial Neural Network library,including an implementation of a language classificationsystem.

—by Evan Nemerson

Low-impact Programming with PHP and Oracle

PHP and Oracle are an excellent combination for creatingpowerful and scalable web solutions. In this article, John Neilsheds light on those performance issues that might arise only underhigh-traffic situations—so that you can stop them before theyever start cropping up.—by John Neil

PHP | FDF

Creating forms is boring. Creating forms that can be neatlyprinted is boring and difficult. Creating forms and saving the user input intoa PDF file is next to impossible… or is it? Richard Lynch showsus how you can create beautiful-looking (and beautiful-printing)forms using Adobe PDF and the FDF library, which allows you toprogrammatically add data to a PDF form file.—by Richard Lynch

Spell checking with PHP

Mistakens hapen without a spel checker! That is a universalconstant, but no one wants their typos to end up in the finalproduct, be it an e-mail or a blog entry, and that’s what spellchecking is all about. Unfortunately, for the most part thisfunctionality is not available to many forms of web communications,such as forums, blogs and online comment systems. In this article,Ilia Alshanetsky will focus on two PHP ex-tensions that offerspell-checking functionality that can be used to validate andcorrect typos and spelling errors right from your scripts.—by Ilia Alshanetsky

PHP and XUL

Traditionally, creating a client-side GUI interface to yourapplications was a laborious process that required specializeddevelopment tools—until… Mozilla?!

Join Jonathan Protzenko as he illustrates how a bit of XML, PHPand Javascript (and a Gecko-compatible browser) make it possible tocreate a top-notch GUI that is portable across multiple operatingsystems and requires no specialized programminglanguages.

—by Jonathan Protzenko

The Filesystem as Your Database

Did you ever get a request to do a dynamic web page but havethe client not want to pay the exorbitant amounts of money fordatabase access? In this article, Peter MacIntyre will guide you indesigning dynamic web pages (mostly form handling of data) on thecheap through the use of the file management functions found withinPHP.—by Peter MacIntyre