Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to create a simple content management system (CMS) with PHP and MYSQL. Looking to challenge yourself or just want a really simple CMS for your current project? A barebones CMS will only requires the following components: A database to store the page title and contents. PHP library that …
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Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to create a simple guestbook with PHP and MySQL. Once upon a time in the Iron Age of the Internet, guestbooks were commonly seen on blogs, allowing guests to leave short messages. But these days, it seems to have been taken over by comments… Nonetheless, it still has …
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Welcome to a tutorial on how to send an email to multiple addresses in PHP – That is setting multiple recipients, the CC, and BCC. Yes, while the PHP mail function may seem to only accept one recipient, we can actually address it to many people at the same time. To send an email to …
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Welcome to a tutorial on how to convert text to image in PHP. Need to output some text as an image? Maybe to stop some nasty users from copying sensitive text? The easy way to convert text to image in PHP is to use the GD library: $img = imagecreate(500, 300); $white = imagecolorallocate($img, 255, …
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Welcome to a beginner’s tutorial on how to run PHP scripts. So you may have some interest in learning PHP, but realized that one does not simply double click a PHP file to run it… Neither does directly opening it in a web browser work. Just how do we run PHP files then? Long story …
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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 THE PERMISSIONS HEADACHE Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a PHP User Role Management System. So you have a project that needs to identify and restrict what each user is able to do? Creating a permissions structure is often quite a grueling task and pain to integrate… But we shall walk through how …
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INTRODUCTION EASY SECURITY 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 …
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INTRODUCTION WHERE TO START 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” …
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INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND PROCESS PHP Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a simple PHP daemon. I am pretty sure that some people only know PHP as “the web development” language that runs on web servers; That is not made to run as “standalone applications” nor do processing the background. Well, that is partially true, …
