Web patterns in PHP

I have a diiferent view of patterns, and pattern languages, than most programmers. And, although I use and appreciate the work of some of the o-o community, I feel that the notion of patterns goes far deeper than any particular computing notation.

In that spirit, I'm going to present a series of simple patterns, for dynamic websites, in PHP & MySQL. Now, I believe that PHP is a very simple scripting language ... in fact many of its advanced features are unstable. But PHP is in heavy use, in what are known as LAMP applications (Linux Apache Mysql Perl/PHP). I will try to maintain some equivalence between this and a Perl version of this programming diary.