NewsForge.com has a new tutorial today about the creation of a dashboard with PHP and a browser.

How many times have you needed a quick and dirty method of displaying data, in a "dashboard" format, that everybody could easily view? Everybody has a Web browser, so why not use that for your dashboard? PHP and Apache make it easy. Here's how you can take a text file, evaluate the content using PHP, then display results on a browser dashboard.

The idea here is to create a simple, clean system to view specific details about data (in this case, files) at a glance. Granted, there are quite a few tools out there that do this kind of thing already, it can be nice to just have a simple, easy-to-use setup of your own.