PHP Tutorial - Dynamic Web Sites

To follow this tutorial, you’ll need to have PHP, MySQL and a Web server up and running on your computer. This will be your “testing server,” where you can build and test your database-driven Web pages The most common approach is to run Apache (a Web server) along with PHP and MySQL, but it’s also possible, if you’re a Windows user, to use Microsoft’s Web server, IIS.

Because this can be a complicated procedure you’ll find three possible installation scenarios below, ranging from the “Egads, I have trouble installing Microsoft Office, and you expect me to install a Web server AND a database server” type of computer user, to the “Back off buddy, I was installing computer systems when you were still in diapers” computer jock.

When You’ve No Idea Where to Start
The easiest way to install all of the parts of the puzzle is to download an all-in-one solution—a simple click to go, one stop shop for powerful Web server software. One choice is the XAMPP project from a group called Apache Friends—www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html. XAMPP is essentially an Apache Web server, PHP, MySQL database server, and a bunch of other stuff rolled up into a single package that you can install on your computer. It’s not a “production” setup—meaning you wouldn’t want to use this
software for really hosting a Web site. It isn’t optimized for working with lots of visitors, and it has some potential security holes that could be exploited if you put XAMPP out in the wild of the Internet.
However, for a testing server that completely simulates a real world Web server, XAMPP is the perfect choice. It lets you create databases, build dynamic Web pages, and view them right on your own computer making it easier for you to build and test database-driven Web sites.

Pages : 15 Pages

PHP - Advanced Tutorial

This PHP - Advance tutorial contents : Agenda, Setup, Sanity Check, Connecting to MySQL, Persistent Connections, Creating a Database, Inserting Data, Selecting Data, Dealing with timestamps, Changing Existing Rows, Magic Quotes, A Simple Guestbook, DB-driven Guestbook, DB Abstraction, HTTP Headers, Cookies, Cookie Expiry, GD 1/2, Colours, Truecolor Colors, ImageColorAt, GD 1/2, Text, TTF Text, EXIF, PDFs on-the-fly, Ming-Flash, More Ming, Cool!, Sessions, Session Configuration, Custom Backend , register_globals, Safe Mode, Security, References , Returning References, Adding an extension, $PATH_INFO, ErrorDocument, Funky Caching, Variable variables, Optimization, PHP Opcode Caches, Profiling PHP, debug_backtrace, Squid, Squid Configuration, MySQL Replication, Load Balancing, Load Balancing with Squid, Latest Developments, Future.

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This PHP - Advace Tutorial Agenda : PHP-MySQL, Cookie Handling, Dynamic Images, PDF, Flash, Sessions, Security, Tips & Tricks, Optimization, Latest Developments, Future.

Pages : 80 Pages

iPhone Installation and User Guide

This iPhone Installation and User Guide make your iPhone more useful, and also save money. fring™ is a mobile internet service & community that enables you to access & interact with your social networks on-the-go, including make free calls, live chat and seeing your contacts online presence with all your fring, Skype®, MSN® Messenger, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!™ and AIM®* friends using your handset’s internet connection rather than costly cellular airtime minutes.

From the main Buddy list you can navigate between your contacts, find their presence status and initiate a communication session with them. You may initiate a voice call, start a chat session and move between all open sessions using the 'Goto' menu. You can also make SkypeOut/SIP calls directly from your fring Buddy list.

Pages : 21 Pages

How Do I Configure My iPhone 3G?

The iPhone 3G is justly famous for its stylish, curvaceous design and for its slick, effortless touchscreen. However, although good looks and ease of use are important for any smartphone, it’s what you do with that phone that’s important.The iPhone 3G helps by offering lots of features, but chances are those features aren’t set up to suit the way you work.Maybe your most-used Home screen icons aren’t at the top of the screen where they should be, or perhaps your iPhone 3G goes to sleep too soon.This chapter shows you how to configure your iPhone 3G to solve these and many other annoyances so the phone works the way you do.


This iPhone guide contents :
Customizing the Home Screen to Suit Your Style, Protecting iPhone 3G with a Passcode, Configuring When iPhone 3G Goes to Sleep, Turning Sounds On and Off, Adjusting the Brightness of the Screen, Setting the iPhone 3G Wallpaper, Customizing the Home Button, Customizing the Keyboard, Resetting the iPhone 3G

Pages : 20 Pages

linux c programming

How to programming linux with C.


File size : 233 KB
Pages : x Pages

Vintage T-shirts

In this tutorial, illustrator Derek Lea reveals how combining both applications photoshop and illustrator can create stunning results. Trends go around in circles, old becomes new, new soon becomes old, and illustration, design and fashion are often at the mercy of the latest trend.

Derek Lea says "In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create your very own traditional American collegiate T-shirt design. And for the ambitious readers among you, I’ll even explain how to transfer your artwork on to a T-shirt. The bulk of the art is created in Illustrator, but as with any successful design, an imported sketch proves to be a very helpful template to work from."

File size : 8,5MB

Download support file here. (1MB)

A Visual Guide To Corel Painter™ 7 Water Color

This document will provide the user with a non-technical description of the various controls in Painter 7 that can be used to adjust the various visual aspects of the Water Color Layer and Brushes.

For Painter 7, the Water Color technology has been substantially updated. Prior to Painter 7, Water Color effects occurred in the “Wet Layer”. This layer was restricted to a single entity, hence it was not possible to create multiple Water Color-savvy layers.
Painter 7’s Water Color implementation represents a complete physical-modeling simulation of an aqueous medium that contains a suspended dye. The brush-applied water/dye combination interacts with the current Paper and absorbs into it. The user can control the wetness and evaporation rate of the paper. The interaction of these physical components visually simulates the spreading, migration, and drying of the waterborne dye.

File size : 1MB
Pages : 26 Pages

A Visual Guide To Corel Painter™ 7 "Water Color"

This document will provide the user with a non-technical description of the various controls in Painter 7 that can be used to adjust the various visual aspects of the Water Color Layer and Brushes.

For Painter 7, the Water Color technology has been substantially updated. Prior to Painter 7, Water Color effects occurred in the “Wet Layer”. This layer was restricted to a single entity, hence it was not possible to create multiple Water Color-savvy layers.
Painter 7’s Water Color implementation represents a complete physical-modeling simulation of an aqueous medium that contains a suspended dye. The brush-applied water/dye combination interacts with the current Paper and absorbs into it. The user can control the wetness and evaporation rate of the paper. The interaction of these physical components visually simulates the spreading, migration, and drying of the waterborne dye.

File size : 1MB
Pages : 26 Pages

Installing Ubuntu on a MacBook 13”

This tutorial helps you to find the right documentation, when you want to install Ubuntu on a MacBook. Ubuntu is a community developed operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. Whether you use it at home, at school or at work Ubuntu contains all the applications you'll ever need, from word processing and email applications, to web server software and programming tools.

Ubuntu is and always will be free of charge. You do not pay any licensing fees. You can download, use and share Ubuntu with your friends, family, school or business for absolutely nothing.

File size = 1.4MB

iPhone Application Tutorial

This tutorial shows how to create a simple iPhone application. It is not intended to give complete coverage of all the features available, but rather to introduce some of the technologies and give you a grounding in the fundamentals of the development process.

The goal here is not to create a finely polished application, but to illustrate:

How you create and manage a project using Xcode
The fundamental design patterns and techniques that underlie all iPhone development
The basics of using Interface Builder
How to make your application respond to user input using standard user interface controls

A secondary goal is to point out other documents that you must also read to fully understand the iPhone development tools and techniques.

File size : 1.7MB

Tyre tutorial

Using 3ds max , this tutorial is about to making tyre.

File size : 1.9MB

HDRIs in 3ds max

This tutorial show you how to use HDRIs in 3ds max by using Vray or Brazil r/s. There are two types of images. Low Dynamic Range Image(LDRI) and High Dynamic Range Image(HDRI).


The first one comprises "normal" bitmaps [like JPEG, TIFF, BMP...], bitmaps which have 8 bits per pixel, with values between 0-255 [in RGB mode]. Which means that there are only 256 levels of luminosity, which doesn't cover by far the range that can be captured by a real camera, with different levels of exposure.
On the other end we find HDRI, whose values can get alot higher then 256. The main feature is that the value of each pixel is proportional with the quantity of light on each pixel. Basically, instead of just storing colors on the screen like normal bitmaps do, the HDR format stores the quantity of light per pixel. Meaning we can have more then 256 levels of luminosity.

File Size : 1MB

Gimp : Introduction

Introduction tutorial for Gimp the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.


This tutorial contents : Transform the Image, Save Your Work in the .XCF Format, Adding Layers, Scaling the Size of Layers, Changing Opacity, Clean Up Pasted Images Using Tools, Saving Files in Formats Other Than .XCF.

File size : 1.4MB

How-To Guide "Loyal Order of Wormwood”

Von Glitschka from Glitschka Studios says "I never know when or where inspiration will come. Most often it's captured initially via a simple doodle. Then at a later point in time I take that doodle and flesh it out into a refined sketch. Once my drawing is exactly the way I like it, I simply scan it in and start building my vector art."


This is the step by step tutorial how to making "Loyal Order of Wormwood.” You can download PDF tutorial, source file and missing step by step tutorial from PDF. Enjoy!

PDF size : 9.5MB


Illustrator CS4 Size : 7.5MB


Missing step by step size : 11.4MB

Creativity Test

Can you create a unique illustrative solution using a limited library of basic shapes? Well that is the challenge put forth by a project called ‘Vormator’ in this simple tutorial.


Using a provided set of basic shapes I have to compile them to create my illustration. The theme is up to me but there are some ground rules such as you cannot edit the shapes or distort them, you however can subtract from them using any of the shapes in the provided set.

File Size : 4.2MB

Making Of : Night of the Cat

This is making of 3D scene "Making Of", filled with 2D elements that strongly inspire by tim Burton's "The Night Before Christmas" and "Corps Bride". Made by Christian Mihaescu that show us how the technique behind the scene and how he apply 3D total toon textures.


Christian says : "Blender, Vue Infinite, Poser, Inkscape and Gimp are my main tools. For Night of the Cat I used Blender (a powerful Open Source 3D programme), Gimp (a 2D Open Source program), and Inkscape for vector graphics (also Open Source). The techniques that I’ll explain are not specific to these applications though, and can be adapted to equivalent programs such as Maya and Photoshop.

File Size : 4.7MB

Photo Fixes

In this tutorial we’re going to show you how to remedy the five most common problems that plague digital photos using Paint Shop Pro. These fixes are so quick and easy, you’ll want to use them on all your photos.

When you complete this tutorial, you’ll be able to:

• Crop to a standard photo size
• Fix exposure or lighting problems
• Remove unwanted parts of photos
• Retouch or edit portions of a photo
• Remove Red Eye

File Size : 1MB

Doug Alves says "In this tutorial I’m going to share some of the techniques I’ve been using on my projects to create plants and birds. This image was specially created for this tutorial."
Organic details always serve as an inspiration to him.


PDF Size : 3.9MB


Source Size : 22.2MB

Make a Wireframe render

This tutorial will teach you how to render a wireframe version of your object in Cinema 4D (C4D). A couple benefits of rendering a wireframe version is that it will help you see if your mesh flows, and it is also a way to showcase polygon use. An added benefit is to use it in artwork for a little something extra in your piece.


File Size : 564KB

Flying Bird - Rig

This Blender tutorial covers the entire animation process of this little guy, first, creating a simple FK armature or Rig, then assigning the mesh vertices to each bone using the weight painting technique, and last, animating it using non linear animation tools.


File Size : 1.9KB

Casino Royale

If you like the movie from the James Bond series - “Casino Royale”, you will know the effect with running and fighting vector figures at the beginning of the movie. It's excellent. Today’s tutorial will be devoted to creation of such an effect in Photoshop.


File Size : 3.1MB

Gears Of War Rock Creation

This is an advanced tutorial explaining the workflow necessary to create a low poly rock like seen in the huge hit “Gears of War” with a focus on Normal Mapping.


File Size : 832KB

Making Grass from Particel

Today, Making 3D grass is more simple with 3D software. Blender is one of the software that is able to do so. In addition to easy, the most fun to learn blender is the availability of features for a software that can be obtained free of charge. Absolutely free!
This tutorial is how to make grass from particles in Blender3D. We can produce the natural grass with this simple blender features.


File Size : 896KB