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A bunch of good PHP tutorials

From time to time I go looking for a good PHP tutorial to do something new, or just to polish up my hacking skills. I hit all the usual sites, but they get old after a while. Some tutorials they have are good, but others are just boring and not useful. I sometimes just want a new place to find a nugget or tidbit of knowledge. GoodPHPTutorials is just one such out of the way destination that has a bunch of well, good PHP tutorials. In addition to the appropriate title, the site has tutorials in many categories, some on PHP framework Cake, tutorials on email functions, database, sessions, and other basic topics. The tutorials aren't hosted on this site, but are simply links to other sites with good content. The tutorials I found were many decent ones I hadn't seen elsewhere. If you are looking for a new tutorials to read up on, you might find some new stuff here. FYI...for some reason the Google ads on this site tend to float a little in Firefox, but beyond that it functions well.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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