After the deprecation of PHP MySQL extension in 2011, alternative extension MySqli and PDO are available in PHP. MySqli and PDO are improved version and offer an object-oriented API and number of enhancement over the regular MySql extension.

You might have seen the implementation of Ajax based data loading system at Facebook, Twitter or some other sites. Instead of showing pagination links, we can load data dynamically whenever a load button click. In this article I’ll show you how we can easily adopt this technique to make similar loading page for our web projects using jQuery.

Pagination is a crucial part of any website, especially if you have hundreds of database records that you want to group and display them as pages, and in modern days with the help of Ajax you can create pagination that doesn’t require any page reloading, users can stay in same page and navigate through vast numbers of records on fly. In this particular article we will be creating Ajax pagination using jQuery and PHP that can navigate though your database records without reloading the page.

You may have came across some some horoscope or fun images of your friends, aren’t they just fun? well, why not create some fun page like that on your website to allow your visitors to generate a Facebook ID card, which they can save on their computer or publish on Facebook wall. Let’s focus on creating some authentic looking “Facebook ID” for the users using PHP and PHP Facebook SDK.