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In this tutorial I will show you how you can get any stock quotes from yahoo and display it on your own site.


Tutorial on how to fetch the external links to any given article through Google Blog Search’s Atom feature and displaying them as a list of trackbacks. With this implemented your blog readers will get the complete picture of the off-site discussion.


If you run any website that accepts submitted links, be it a tutorial website, a directory or a bookmarking site, you may find it useful to automatically retrieve information about a URL. Wouldn’t it be nice if you ran a web directory and you could bring up the title, keywords and description of a URL without the user having to enter it? This tutorial shows you how this can be achieved via PHP.


See how easy it is to develop PHP applications using a different set of Eclipse Europa plug-ins, Java and Rils.




Fluent interface for parsing HTML, specifically statistical data in tables.


Build an application to test a website’s connection on your hosting. This can be used to check whether it’s an end-user problem to why the website is not resolving, or whether the website is experiencing downtime. This quick, simple and detailed tutorial


Generate the amount of time taken by the server to execute the commands given with the script.




This tutorial explains how to use Curl and SimpleXML SimpleXML is a php5 extension used to parse XML data. Topics covered include loading XML documents, parsing nodes & attributes, and filtering data with XPath statements.


Here, you will learn how to build your own online calendar using the MCAL library and PHP. The MCAL library offers a common simple interface for accessing calendars that can be stored in many different formats. Full source code provided.


Dynamically create a HTML calendar using PHP