Welcome to a tutorial and examples of how to use cookies in PHP. So you may have heard of this “cookie thing” and wondering how to use it in PHP? To set a cookie in PHP, simply use setcookie(“NAME”, “VALUE”); Then, we can use $_COOKIE[‘NAME’] to access the cookie. To remove a cookie – setcookie(“NAME”, …
Welcome to a tutorial on how to use sessions in PHP. So you have heard of this user session thing, and trying to figure out how it works? Call session_start() to start the session. We can then use the $_SESSION superglobal just like a “regular variable” to store and retrieve data from the session. For example: …
Welcome to a tutorial and examples on how to use PHP output buffering. You have probably seen this output buffering thing everywhere on the Internet, maybe even used it yourself. But just what is output buffering, and what does it do!? With output buffering, PHP will hold data in the buffer and only release them …
Welcome to a tutorial and example on how to create a PHP plugin module system. So you have a project that has grown massively large and needs to get things done in an organized manner. The general steps and considerations for developing a plugin system are: First, we develop a core system that has a …
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! ⓘ I have included a zip file with …
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Welcome to a beginner’s tutorial and examples of JSON in PHP. So you have probably heard of this “JSON” thing somewhere and wondering what it is for? JSON stands for Javascript Object Notation. In simple terms, we use JSON to “convert” an array or object into a string and vice-versa. $jsonstring = json_encode([“Foo”, “Bar”]); $array …
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Welcome to a beginner’s tutorial on PHPSpreadsheet. So you are interested in generating Excel files straight from your PHP project and stumbled on PHPSpreadsheet… But the documentation is overwhelming and there’s not a good place to get started with. Fret not. Let us walk through how to create a “hello world” spreadsheet in this tutorial, …
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Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a simple PHP admin panel. Since you are reading this guide, I am going to assume that you are interested in “powering up” your existing project and planning to build an administrative component to it. Fear not, this tutorial will exactly walk you through how to build …
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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? We can use multi CURL in PHP to run requests in parallel. Initialize the CURL requests and set the options as usual. $chA …
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Welcome to a tutorial on the various ways to encrypt, decrypt, and verify passwords in PHP. If you are reading this guide, I am going to assume that you are not a security expert and looking for ways to create a more secure system. Yes, I totally understand that we are web developers and not …
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