15 Tips and tricks for php

PHP is used in more a less most websites on the internet. I have compiled a list of 15 top useful PHP tips / tricks and tutorials. These should keep you busy for a while. They all can come in handy sometime when you are coding.

Limit Characters From Your Text

In this tutorial you will learn how to limit characters from a sentence without cutting words up. This is a really useful tutorial.
http://www.jooria.com/Limit-Characters-From-Your-Text-a139.html

Create An Advanced Password Recovery Utility

Learn how to create a very advanced password recovery tool using PHP. This can be useful, and you can implement it in to your website login system.
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/creating-an-advanced-password-recovery-utility/

Login To Analytics API Using PHP

Great little tip / trick that teaches you how to login to the Google Analytics API using ClientLogin.
http://www.electrictoolbox.com/google-analytics-login-php-curl-username-password/

Error 404 Pages With PHP Auto-Mailer

An awesome tutorial for creating a custom error 404 page.
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/404403-website-error-pages-with-php-auto-mailer/

Resession (Session Manager)

Check this out. Its a really nifty session manager that you can integrate with your website.
http://www.milesj.me/resources/script/session-manager

Web Contact Forms With PHP

Learn how to create web radio buttons, and checkboxes using PHP.

Simple And Minimalistic User System

This tutorial will teach you how to create a minimalistic user system for a website from scratch.
http://rmb-scripting.com/tutorials.php?tutorial&tid=371

Simple PHP Class For Parsing Markup

This tutorial will teach you how to make a simple class that wraps PHP’s various regex functions in a fluent interface.
http://www.prodevtips.com/2009/03/26/simple-php-class-for-parsing-markup/

PHP Based Address Book Using MySQL

Learn how to create a PHP address book and store all the addresses in a MySQL database.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Simple-PHP-web-based-address-book-using-MySql

Single Signon Using OpenID, PHP and MySQL

Enable your website / web application to accept OpenID as a way of login.
http://www.webdesignermag.co.uk/tutorials/enabling-single-signon-using-open-id-login-php-and-mysql/

Creating a File & Downloading It Using PHP

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a file using PHP, and then enable your users to download it.
http://pfmashup.tumblr.com/post/90347622/creatingfiledownloadingitinphp

Creating A Shopping Cart Using PHP

This tutorial will teach you how to create a simple and easy to use shopping cart to use on your website. There are 3 parts, enjoy!
Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3

Zero Fill a Number

Learn how to make a number a certain amount of characters. Such as 5 you could make to 005.
http://www.wlscripting.com/tutorial/55

Make a Unique Hits Counter

This tutorial will teach you how to create a unique hits counter, and keep the values permanently.
http://designkai.com/unique-hits-counter/

Tutorial Management System

Learn in 5 parts, how to create a fully functional tutorial management system, including comments!
Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5