Tips & Tutorials

Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a simple poll system in PHP and MYSQL. So you are interested in getting the opinions of your visitors, maybe tickle their brains a little. So here it is, let us walk through an example of a polling system in this guide – Read on!     […]

You have probably heard of JSON web token (JWT), and wonder how to implement it into your project. Coming from the old-school PHP session, I was in the same boat, struggling to glue JWT into PHP projects… So here it is, a sharing of my working JWT experiment, minus all the confusing security stuff –

Welcome to a tutorial and example of how to download a folder with PHP FTP. Can’t find a native FTP function to download an entire folder automatically? Well, we will have to do it manually then. To download an entire folder with PHP FTP, simply fetch the list of files and download them one by

Welcome to a tutorial and example on how to create a simple REST API in PHP and MYSQL. The term “REST API” probably sounds intimidating to some beginners, but in actual fact, it is something really simple. In layman’s terms, a REST API is nothing but a service endpoint. It simply accepts a user request,

Welcome to a short tutorial on how to add commas to numbers in PHP. Need to format and present a “nice-looking” number to the users? The common ways to add commas to numbers in PHP are: Use the number_format() function. For example, $num = number_format(12345.678, 2); Use regular expressions. For example, $num = preg_replace(“/\B(?=(\d{3})+(?!\d))/”, “,”,

Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to save and load TinyMCE content with PHP MySQL. So you are building your own CMS or want to give users some flexibility to edit their own product pages? Well, TinyMCE is definitely a good choice. To save and retrieve TinyMCE contents with PHP and MySQL, we need

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

Welcome to a tutorial on how to make CURL requests to HTTPS in PHP. Need to access a secure URL with PHP CURL? Well, we need to specify a couple of extra settings in CURL to do that. To access an HTTPS protected website with PHP CURL: $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, “https://site.com”); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,

Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a Live Scoreboard with PHP and MySQL. So you want to go big, and display the scores of a game live on a website? A simple live scoreboard consists of 4 essential components: A database table to store the game scores. Core PHP library to update and

Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to hide the PHP file extension in the URL. Don’t want to show an ugly PHP file extension or want to hide it away for security purposes? An easy way to hide the PHP extension while using the Apache web server is to create a .htaccess file with