PHP Custom Web Statistics Part 3

In today's tutorial, Gareth provides and walks through the the code  to collect and display of your site's visitor statistics. We examine ways to select data in MySQL and display different types of hits in PHP. You learn how to identify different browsers, opeating systems, and whether the visitor is a "bot" or not ( robot from a search engine or other web crawler) and, if so, how to identify its origin, in order to display statistics to help you understand who visits your site.

Please note that this article forms part of a chapter in the DMXzone e-book PHP Web Applications for Dreamweaver: Juicy Solutions for the Busy Developer.

Using ASP.NET List Controls

PHP: External Debugging With Sockets

Usually, when debugging a PHP script, the easiest method is using echo statements to write variables to the screen to trace the progress of the program. But imagine you're trying to debug a PHP script that produces an image, Flash file, PDF or some other multimedia; dumping to the screen will break the content that the script is trying to produce!

This tutorial provides a solution that uses sockets to connect to a port on our  machine or another machine, and write debug information out to that. This way we can have the output of our script displayed correctly or incorrectly as the case may be in our web browser, and the information about the variables in the script sent as output somewhere else.

Code is provided for Windows, Mac OS9, OSX, Linux and the RealBasic source.

ASP/ CSS: Searchable Image Gallery

This tutorial teaches you how to build a dynamically generated Photo gallery. The database stores keywords against each photograph, and then user can search on those keywords and the resulting images are dusplayed, using ASP to query the database and CSS to present the page, and so avoid tables and fixed numbers of columns.

This tutorial is suitable for intermediate-level Dreamweaver users, although no previous ASP knowledge is necessary. All the code is provided.

PHP Graphing: 3D-Effect Pie Charts

This is the final article in the series on using PHP libraries to produce graphs on-the-fly from dynamic data. We've generated line graphs, bar graphs, pie charts, then coloured the pie charts and exploded them. This final tutorial shows how to produce 3D-style pie charts that can't enhance your sales figures - but can at least make the presentation of them look nicer!

All the code is supplied for you to download, adapt - or just import straight into your PHP pages so you can up and running straight away!

ASP.NET Events for Beginners (Free!)

As you are aware in real life an event is when something notable occurs, such an earthquake or somebody walking on the moon, even you getting out of bed this morning could be considered an event! Within an ASP.NET page events are just the same; they mark something notable happening during the page's execution lifecycle and let you know about it when it happens. A prime example of this is Page_Load, this is raised early in the pages lifecycle and you can place your own code into the Page_Load event procedure.