http://www.phpro.org/feed.php PHP Tutorials from PHPRO Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:58:39 +0000 eZ Components Feed dev (http://ezcomponents.org/docs/tutorials/Feed) http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.phpro.org/tutorials/Asynchronous-Form-Submission-With-Xajax.html This short tutorial describes and shows how to submit a form asynchronoussly using xajax. This allows users to submit a form without a page reload. Ideal for login scripts etc. The tutorial follows on to show how the response form the form can be manipulated by adding effects from the scriptaculous library. The first of these is adding a fade effect to the form response. http://www.phpro.org/tutorials/Geo-Targetting-With-PHP-And-MySQL.html Geo targetting and Geo location are big money now in web applications. Companies such as Yahoo and Google offer maps and the ability to put markers on maps with locations of stores or cities within a given radius of a zip code. 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