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Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a simple URL shortener with PHP and MySQL. Want to share some promotion links and don’t want to use the “common” URL shorteners online? Here’s how you can create your own in just a few steps – Read on!     TABLE OF CONTENTS Download & Notes […]

Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to generate QR code in PHP. Want to quickly promote your products and services? Share a link, email address, or phone number? A simple way to generate QR codes in PHP is to: Use the QR Code library, an easy way is to use Composer to download it

Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to create a simple content management system (CMS) with PHP and MYSQL. Looking to challenge yourself or just want a really simple CMS for your current project? Well, an actual example will better explain things. Let us walk through one in this guide – Read on!    

Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to read zip files in PHP. So the old zip functions are deprecated in PHP 8, how do we read files using Zip Archive then? This has caused some confusion, but it is actually very straightforward. To read zip files in PHP, we can use statIndex() to get

Welcome to a quick tutorial and examples of how to copy an entire folder in PHP. Having trouble with copying files in PHP? Can’t find a native function that will copy entire folders? To copy all the files inside a folder, a common solution is to manually get the list of files and copy them

Welcome to a tutorial on how to import an Excel Spreadsheet into a MySQL database with PHP. So you have a project that requires reading some data from a spreadsheet and save them into the database? Sadly, PHP cannot read Excel files natively. In order to import Excel files into the database: We have to

Welcome to a quick tutorial and example on how to create Excel spreadsheets with PHP. Need to generate a report in an Excel Spreadsheet? Yes, we can actually do that quite easily. In order to generate Excel files in PHP, we need to use a third-party library. PHPSpreadsheet is a good recommendation, and the easy

Welcome to a tutorial on how to implement Google Cloud Text-to-Speech in PHP. So you are working on a PHP text-to-speech project, but only to find that Google’s documentation is kind of all over the place? Well, here is a simple working example of mine – Read on!     TABLE OF CONTENTS Download &

Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to convert HTML to DOCX using PHP. Need to generate formal Word reports? Capture a webpage into a document? Yes, that can actually be done pretty easily. In order to convert HTML to DOCX in PHP, we have to download and use a third-party library. PHPWord is a

Welcome to a tutorial on how to search and display results from the database using PHP and MySQL. Want to add a search box to your website? Well, it actually isn’t that difficult. In the simplest design, a “search and display results” only involves: Creating a simple HTML search form. When the HTML form is