The purpose of these tutorials and articles is not to make you an expert with php. Neither is it to demonstrate perfect scripting techniques (and then some). Rather, our purpose is to lead you gently beyond the beginner tutorials and build upon what you learned there (or already knew).

The approach we'll use is to show how some simple scripting can be used to actually achieve something. And once you can achieve 'something' it's a small step to editing that code to achieve 'something' more to your taste, and so on.

There are a number of things you'll need to be able to actually create and use various scripts developed in these tutorials and techinques described in the articles:

1. A moderate understanding of php scripting and MySQL databases.
2. A text editor - Notepad is perfect.
3. A web server that supports php and MySQL
4. An FTP client or some other way of getting files to your web server
5. Attention to detail, as syntax is very important in php scripts

The tutorials and articles are in no particular order, and each is a 'stand alone' item.

Questions and comments about these articles and tutorials can be added to the appropriate thread in the Llamasery Forum. Complaints can be sent to the tutorials author, who may or may not respond.