I've gotten around to releasing a new set of beginners video tutorials on PHP. This time around, I have a four part video on how to get PHP to talk to MySQL.

All four parts are there, bundled into a Flash presentation. Note: these are not installation tutorials - they only show how to get PHP talking to the MySQL backend, not how to set them up together.

In Part 1 of a three-part series on creating an on-demand video site with PHP, we begin by looking at the different flavors of digital video and their particular nuances. When creating video for the Web, the overarching issue you need to keep in mind is whether you want your video to be small and easy to download or whether you want it to be the best quality possible.

They'll also show you how to convert the video into the Flash Video format to make it easy to pull into an in-page Flash player. You'll need to register or log in to get to the article.

This Zend Framework video is from our resident Zend-nerd: Jon Lebensold. Again, let us know what you think and should you have any suggestions or request, please feel free to comment.

Part one was posted back on Tuesday for those that need to catch up.

This video is a little more basic than the previous Zend videos.

The video runs about twelve minutes long and covers the use of the Framework to post information back to a page and insert some of the information back into the database.

I just released my beginners object oriented php video tutorials in iPod format. These videos target total beginners to object oriented programing. Though I talk about PHP, the principles are universal and so they apply to all OO (object oriented) languages.

Tutorial in the list include:

• Beginners Object Oriented PHP
• Classes and Objects in PHP
• Building Objects in PHP - Part 1 & 2
• Build Objects in PHP - Part 3

Check out these and other great videos on the KillerPHP.com website.

Videos that have already been posted to the section include setup videos part one and two as well as a look at working with the Zend_Controller and Zend_View components.

f you read Sam Raimi's How open source has influenced Windows Server 2008 and Dominic Sartorio's Dominic Sartorio on SpikeSource and Open Source Interoperability blog entries on Microsoft's Port 25 site, you might wonder if FastCGI for PHP only works with Windows Server 2008 and IIS7. Fortunately, that is NOT the case. Head over to http://iis.net/php where you can find and download FastCGI for IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003.

He also points out a video tutorial from Microsoft that can help you get this latest version og FasctCGI up and running on your system.

This last installment of the series will be entirely focused on demonstrating how Inheritance can be used in a helpful way to build a set of child classes that will come in handy for consuming a specific Yahoo! Search Service.

They show how to use their current image search functionality and, with a few modifications, make a base class that can be used to support ech of the other search types (web, image, video) with common functionality and settings.

He includes some notes from some of the previous videos covering things like the session ID, how long they last, if they're arrays or not and where they need to be defined.

You can find the other videos here: Part One, Part Two

This is the part 2 of 3 of my videos that introduces the beginner to PHP sessions. In this video, I get into practical examples where we see basic PHP sessions in action.

You can find the video here as well as part one if you need to catch up.