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This small site is supposed to provide information for people wanting to get started using PHP scripts on their Web-site. It especially focuses on how to avoid the most common problems when starting to use PHP.

Information provided here is only meant to help you getting started. It can only cover the most common problems and traps, if you seriously want to use PHP you will have to refer to standard documentation of the programming language of your choice, e.g. http://www.php.net
  1. 'Hello World' or Try to get a simple script running before you attack the difficult ones !
  2. Form Handling
  3. Connection to databases
  4. Uploading files using HTML-Forms.
  5. Sending Mail from a PHP-script !
  6. Using PHP-modules that are not in the standard PHP distribution
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    In case of problems: Please go through the Check-List for Common Errors !!!