Welcome to a tutorial on how to use sessions in PHP. So you have heard of this session thing, and trying to figure out how it works? Call session_start() to start the session. We can then use the $_SESSION superglobal like a “regular variable” to store and retrieve data. For example: $_SESSION[“color”] = “Red”; echo $_SESSION[“color”]; …
Welcome to a quick tutorial and examples of how to use cookies in PHP. So you have heard of this “cookie thing” and wonder how to use it in PHP? A cookie is simply a NAME = VALUE pair stored in the user’s browser. To set a cookie in PHP, use setcookie(“NAME”, “VALUE”); Then, we …
Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to create an autocomplete textbox with PHP and MySQL. Looking to add autocomplete features to a textbox? But it doesn’t make any sense to load an entire library and inflate the loading times? Well, here is a sharing of my autocomplete using only pure HTML and Javascript – …
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Welcome to a tutorial on how to run PHP scripts in the background. So you are looking for a way to “silently run” a massive PHP script? The bad news is, PHP is not quite made to run in the background “by default”. But thankfully, there are a few simple alternatives. To run PHP scripts …
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tWelcome to a quick tutorial on how to implement CSRF token protection in PHP. Working to further secure your website, or just stumbled on this “CSRF token” thing on the Internet? Well, it stands for “Cross-Site Request Forgery”, and this token thing is nothing more than a random string in the session. The simplified steps …
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Welcome to a tutorial on how to delete files in PHP. Need to remove some old, backup, or temporary files in PHP? To delete a file in PHP, use unlink(“TARGET FILE”); To remove an empty folder, use rmdir(“FOLDER”); That covers the super quick basics, but “advanced deleting” entire folders and only certain file types are …
Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to create a multi-language website in PHP. I know, there are already a ton of these “multi-language” tutorials all over the Internet. So this one is going to be a little different from the rest, I am going to keep it as simple as possible – Read on …
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Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a simple PHP audio player. Want to create your own podcast or playlist? Once upon a time, we have to fight with digital dragons and use all sorts of plugins to do that. But today, it is nearly as simple as using an <audio> tag. Read on …
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 …
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Welcome to a quick tutorial on the difference between urlencode and rawurlencode in PHP. So what are these used for, and why are there two different versions of “encode URL”? Which one is correct and which should we use? A URL string cannot contain white spaces and characters such as @+%. For example, http://site.com/my path/?email=jon@doe.com …
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