Over the years, I’ve written and collected many different PHP scripts and chunks of code that are useful in their own, little way. Sometimes, they’re useful in a big way. A good example of what i’m talking about here are the tutorials and articles that I copied from “Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours”. I found that info to be so useful, that I typed out the tutorials verbatim (or at least… very close!) in hopes that the experience would help me catch on a bit faster. It did work, and I understand the practicality of OOP programming in PHP and the reasons it’s a “standard”. I also have these articles (copied from a hard copy book which I purchased) online so I always have a reference to the OOP basics. It’s all about practicality, here.
In order to write practical object oriented PHP code, you should first have a thorough understanding on how Arrays and Functions work. It just so happens the tutorials I have here go over them to help a person along the right path.
There is also code for a Calendar script that was in the same book as the articles and tutorials mentioned above. Though, the calendar was written for register_globals to be ON, I made a slight modification and fixed that “problem”. I even show how it can be used as a blog type calendar, a lot like the one on the right hand side of this page!
That’s not all, there is also a decent beginning to a shopping cart script that I found in a book that I bought from sitepoint.com by Kevin Yank as well as an upload script that I wrote, some GD examples, PHP_CLI scripts that I wrote and found.
The coolest chunk of code there (that I think is the coolest, anyway) is the database abstraction code. I actually use that code to manipulate SQL databases in a couple of scripts that i’m currently writing (INCLUDING a NEWER version of TagIt! Tagboard. I wouldn’t expect that for a few months though). Anway, have fun and be careful! It’s a jungle out there!