I recommend SimpleXML (http://w3schools.com/php/php_xml_simplexml.asp) but there's also the PHP XML DOM and the Expat Parser too.

Tutorials for those may also be found on W3Schools.

Quite a few webservers have support for PHP, but you will never find better support than using Apache.

If the time they've got left is stored in a client-side variable it will be easy to change it.

The best way would be using Javascript to display a ticking clock that every few seconds checks it's...

Mmmm jQuery! ;)

If you want a much more eye-catching javascript solution try lightbox or a variation of it.. http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/

Well it's all dynamic using a server-side language such as PHP. First of all, you must check if the user is an admin. If you have a proper usersystem, checking if the current session's userID has...

You can leave out the <a> tag then because you can just use the div:hover.

<div id="myButton" onclick="window.location = 'http://google.com';">Page 2</div>

Cache control is done via headers in PHP as far as I know..

Found something in the PHP documentation:
<?PHP
header( 'Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT' );
header( 'Last-Modified: ' ....

The actual networking doesn't have to be done in PHP. The PHP can just offer a frontend such as the function of Squirrelmail. The actual mail service is a mail server, using Google you may find one...

If you want fading effects for various elements on an html page then the jQuery javascript library is for you. The following example fades out and then fades back in all divs on a page that are...

If you're referring to how it cuts up and uses different parts of the image, you can refer to how jQueryUI does it for it's icons.

Using ajax for this would make it even nicer. Also, you're not really asking much of a valid question but are rather asking someone to write the programme for you.

Here's how you do it, in...

You could try selecting the image with a primary key which is +1 from the current if you're going to the next image or -1 from the current if you're going to the previous.

Also, slightly offtopic...