Welcome to a beginner’s tutorial on how to display PHP variables in HTML. So you have some PHP variables that you want to “insert” into an HTML element? There are a couple of ways to display PHP variables in HTML: Use delimiters to weave between PHP and HTML – <p><?php echo $VAR; ?></p> Use the …
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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 …
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Welcome to a tutorial on how to resize images in PHP. So you have a project that deals with images, and want to resize them due to space restrictions… or maybe you just want to create thumbnails of the uploaded images. It only takes 4 lines of code to resize images in PHP: $original = …
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’); $white = imagecolorallocate($img, 255, 255, 255); $font = “C:\Windows\Fonts\arial.ttf”; imagettftext($img, …
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Welcome to a tutorial on how to read files in PHP. Yep, that is right, how difficult can reading files in PHP be? You will be surprised… It is not as straightforward as some may think. There are quite a number of ways to read files in PHP: Read file into a string – $contents …
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Welcome to a tutorial on how to remove HTML tags in PHP and MySQL. So you have completed your comments system, forum, review, or whatever that accepts user feedback. But there is one problem – Bad guys are abusing it by adding all sorts of funky HTML and script tags. To remove HTML tags in …
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Welcome to a short beginner’s tutorial on how to add HTML code in PHP. So you have finally moved into server-side programming, but the challenge now is to bridge server and client-side code together… How do we generate or add HTML code in PHP? There are 3 easy ways to add HTML code in PHP: …
Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to check the PHP version. Yep, this is probably one of the “funky” tutorials that I have written. The PHP version is normally one that people will not touch on, but be it for checking for compatibility or if it is time for an update. There are 4 …
Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to export data from MYSQL to an Excel Spreadsheet. Need to export some data from the database into Excel spreadsheets? Sadly, PHP is unable to generate Excel files natively. In order to export data from MySQL to an Excel Spreadsheet: We need to use a third-party library to …
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Unless you have been living under a rock, we all know what happened in 2020 – A global pandemic. Then, interestingly, I got quite a number of questions from students worldwide on how to do contact tracing using GPS. That only won an instant facepalm from this code ninja, and no, I did not reply …
