PHP

Welcome to a tutorial on how to create hooks in PHP. So you may be wondering how hooks work in PHP after using them in WordPress, Drupal, Codeigniter, or in other programming languages. Well, for a quick answer: Hooks are mechanics that are commonly used to change or complete a process. However, hooks are not […]

Welcome to a tutorial on how to set a CORS cookie in PHP. Need to set a cookie in a cross-origin call? Annoyingly got rejected multiple times? Yep, that is security, and it took me hours to figure things out too. So here it is, a quick sharing of my working example – Read on!

Welcome to a tutorial on how to read a CSV file into a JSON-encoded string in PHP. So you are working on a project that needs to read a CSV file, and maybe send that to an API in JSON format? “Converting” CSV into a JSON-encoded string is a 2 steps process in PHP: Read

Welcome to a quick beginner’s tutorial on how to use HTML and PHP on the same page. So you have just started with server-side programming, and wondering if it is possible to use both HTML and PHP on the same page? How do we generate or add HTML code in PHP? We can use both

Welcome to a beginner’s tutorial on how to save an HTML form into the database with PHP and MySQL. So you have finally come to fight the boss stage of full-stack programming – Combining HTML, PHP, and MySQL to save a submitted form into the database. Saving an HTML form into the database is a

Welcome to a tutorial on how to send push notifications in PHP. It is not a secret that web browsers are capable of displaying notifications, but just how can we send push notifications from a PHP server? Read on for the example!     TABLE OF CONTENTS Download & Notes PHP Push Notification Extras The

Welcome to a tutorial and example of an MVC application with PHP and MySQL. You have probably heard of MVC everywhere in different flavors – Framework, design pattern, concept, architecture, and much more. So just what is it? What does it do and what does it mean? How do we build a PHP application based

So you have a project that needs to filter out a list of files from a folder – The glob() function is probably your best bet, but it can be pretty intimidating for some beginners. Fear not, here are some of the common “search patterns” that I gathered from the Internet. Read on!    

Welcome to a tutorial on how to list files and folders in PHP. So you need to get the contents of a folder in PHP? Well, be prepared for a small nasty surprise. The common ways to list files and folders in PHP are: foreach (scandir(“FOLDER”) as $ff) { … } foreach (glob(“FOLDER/*”) as $ff)

Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to create a dynamic navigation menu with PHP and MySQL. So you are looking for ways to dynamically generate a menu, and not have to update the HTML every time? We can create a simple dynamic navigation menu with PHP MySQL in just a few steps: Create a database