Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to force download files in PHP. Need to offer a file as a download, but the browser opens it instead? Don’t worry, we can “fix” this using only a few lines of PHP code. To force a file download in PHP, we need to: Output the respective “handle …
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Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a simple file-sharing system with PHP and MYSQL. Have some files on the server that you want to share? But not to everybody? Well, a simple “file-sharing protection” can be created using PHP and MYSQL. The general process of a file-sharing system in PHP and MYSQL is: …
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Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a simple address book with PHP and MYSQL. Want to create your own address book? Or just want a project to learn more about PHP MYSQL? A simple PHP MYSQL address book has the following general components: Database table to store the address book entries. PHP library …
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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 …
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Welcome to a quick tutorial on the difference between MySQL, MySQLi, and PDO in PHP. So you may have just started working with MySQL in PHP, and noticed that there are 3 different extensions to work with the database. The main difference between the MySQL, MySQLi, and PDO extensions is: MySQL – The early PHP-MySQL …
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Welcome to a guide on how to encrypt and hide PHP source code. Need to hide the source code for security reasons? Or maybe a client is not willing to pay in full? Sadly, there are no “smart solutions” to hide PHP code. It is impossible to totally hide the PHP source code since it …
Welcome to a tutorial on how to detect mobile or desktop in PHP. So you want to redirect the user to a mobile website, or maybe hide the “mobile-only” features on a desktop? An easy way to detect a mobile or desktop device in PHP is to check if the HTTP user agent contains the …
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Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a simple bidding or auction system in PHP and MYSQL. Want to auction off some products on your website like eBay? Or want to open jobs for bidding? The raw mechanics for an auction or bidding system consists of: A database table to store the auctioned products …
Welcome to a tutorial on how to create simple pagination with PHP and MySQL. Yes, there are a lot of frameworks out there that deal with pagination, but some left people scratching their heads with an insanely long “how to use bible”. So here it is, let us walk through a simple “DIY pagination” example that …
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Welcome to a tutorial on how to add text to images in PHP. Need to add a watermark or copyright message on uploaded images on a PHP server? To add text to an image in PHP, we can use the GD extension. $img = imagecreatefromjpeg(“IMG.JPG”); $size = 24; $x = 5; $y = 30; $angle …
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