These are a list of things I wish I had known when I got started with PHP. They aren’t hard things at all but my newbieness and fear kept me away from learning them from some time.

Google has made it easier for us to develop location based web application, check out their latest API.

You used to have to scrape a website to get its content but now they are making it easy for you to do that, with oEmbed. Lear more about this cool API.

You don’t have to know anything about MySQL or any other database to add a simple comments form to your site, all you need is PHP, XML and some JQuery.

Have you ever wanted to build your own mini search engine or web analytics website? Then this tutorial is what you’ve been waiting for.

The last part of Zend OAuth For Twitter Series. In this post you will get to call twitter’s API method to update your status.

Welcome to part two of this series. In the last post we created the sign in with twitter button with all the required parameters, in this post we will authenticate the user.

Zend’s OAuth library is making it easier for us to make oauth applications. In this series I will walk you through a twitter application but you will be able to see how this library can easily be integrated with any other OAuth API.

Perfect for making an API or just for fun, I will show you how easy it is to send JSON from PHP to JQuery. Have fun!

You’ve seen and played with grids now it’s time to take a look at css frameworks that can style your designs.