INTRODUCTION EASY CONTENT MANAGEMENT Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to create a simple content management system (CMS) with PHP and MYSQL. Looking to challenge yourself or to create a lightweight CMS? Well, creating a barebones CMS will require the following steps: Create a database to store the page title and contents. A PHP …
INTRODUCTION SAME BUT DIFFERENT Welcome to a quick tutorial on include and require in PHP. By now, you would have heard of using include and require to “load” an external script. While both of them may seemingly do the same thing, but there is an actual difference between them. We should be using require when …
INTRODUCTION OVERWHELMING DATE & TIME Welcome to a quick tutorial on the date and time in PHP. Need to do some “date yoga” in PHP? Having trouble with comparing dates, formatting dates, or adding/subtracting days from a given date? Well, let us walk through some of the common formats and help you to better understand …
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INTRODUCTION EASY PEASY Welcome to a tutorial on how to post an array in HTML form, and handle the data in PHP. Handling data in an HTML form is easy. Just add the name attribute to the input field or text box and that’s it. But what if we want to post an array instead? …
INTRODUCTION WORKING TOGETHER Welcome to a beginner’s tutorial on how to use HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, and MySQL together to build a website. Just started with web development, and wondering why we need so many different languages and technologies behind a website? Maybe you already know, but let’s cover it quickly: HTML deals with the structure …
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INTRODUCTION DATABASE CONNECTION Welcome to a tutorial on how to connect to MySQL in PHP. So you are done with the basics of PHP and looking to dabble in the dark arts of the database? When it comes to connecting to the MySQL database in PHP, there are 3 different extensions: PHP Database Object (PDO) …
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INTRODUCTION SAME BUT DIFFERENT Welcome to a tutorial on cookies and sessions in PHP. If you have been poking around with PHP, you would have noticed that there are 2 very similar mechanisms – cookies and sessions. Long story short, these two are related but refers to different things: Cookies are small pieces of data …
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INTRODUCTION GAME OF EXCEL Welcome to a tutorial on how to create Excel spreadsheets with PHP and MYSQL. Need to export data from MySQL to Excel spreadsheets from PHP? Sadly, PHP is unable to generate Excel files natively. So in order to generate Excel files in PHP, we need to download and use a library …
INTRODUCTION WEB TRACKING MAGIC Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a GPS tracking system with PHP and Javascript. Once upon a time in the dark ages of the Internet, GPS is hardly known, and people really didn’t bother about it very much. It was not until the invention of smartphones (and the GPS units …
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INTRODUCTION HTML TO PDF CONVERSION MAGIC Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to convert HTML to PDF in PHP. Need to create a PDF file using HTML? Unfortunately, PHP does not support the PDF file format natively. So in order to convert HTML to PDF in PHP, we will have to download and use …
