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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 …

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Welcome to a tutorial on how to receive JSON data with PHP CURL. Are you expecting to receive some JSON data with a CURL call? To receive JSON data with PHP CURL, simply use the json_decode() function to turn the JSON string back into an object or array: $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, “http://site.com”); curl_setopt($ch, …

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Welcome to a tutorial on how to send JSON data with PHP CURL. Need to send some data using CURL in the JSON format? To send JSON data with PHP CURL, simply json_encode() the data before sending it out: $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, “http://site.com”); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, [“KEY” => json_encode([“VALUE”, “VALUE”])]); $result …

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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 …

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Welcome to a quick tutorial on absolute and relative paths in PHP. So you have set a verified file path, but PHP is still complaining about “missing” files and folders? Yes, it is easy to get lost with absolute and relative paths in PHP. An absolute path refers to defining the full exact file path, for …

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Welcome to a tutorial on how to embed images in PHP mail. Trying to add images to the email message with the default PHP mail function? Yes, it is possible with a couple of small touches. There are 2 common ways to add images in PHP mail: Host the image on your server, then set …

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Welcome to a tutorial on how to do multiple asynchronous CURL requests in PHP. Need to grab data from various websites all at once? Or send data to different servers in parallel? To run multiple PHP asynchronous CURL requests in parallel: Initialize the CURL requests and set the options. $chA = curl_init(); $chB = curl_init(); …

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