I was looking around the usual PHP sites looking for a graphical web counter and found the kernel of what I was looking for in the GDLib Hit Counter snippet on the PHPBuilder site (see the links page).
Using this I wrote the web counter used on my site. The code is compacted considerably with the use of dynamic variables and a cookie has been added so that the client will not trigger an increment on the number within an hour.
The counter is called as an image in HTML ...
e.g. <img src="counter.php">
The counter program needs two sub-directories, the first being the "images" directory which holds the individual number images and the second is the "counters" directory which holds a file called "counter.txt". The permissions for this directory must be altered to allow for read/write access (it is also safer to set it so that no scripts can be executed from it either).
I have spent a lot of time writing web based systems that access various databases, each type of database needing slightly different syntax to get it to work properly. So I created a generic PHP class that would be able to access one or more databases at the same time.
The class will currently handle Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL but can be amended to allow for more databases and can be included in any PHP code.
Using page tabs is a great way of getting from page to page in any application, including web sites. So I wrote a simple PHP function that creates apage tab image and an image map to create the links. The PHP function accepts a number of query fields, the main ones of which are the number of page tabs to be created and the active page tab, the other fields hold the title of each page tab.
I was looking around the usual PHP sites looking for a graphical web counter and found the kernel of what I was looking for in the 
Using page tabs is a great way of getting from page to page in any application, including web sites. So I wrote a simple PHP function that creates apage tab image and an image map to create the links. The PHP function accepts a number of query fields, the main ones of which are the number of page tabs to be created and the active page tab, the other fields hold the title of each page tab.
