PHP

Welcome to a tutorial on how to compress images in PHP. So you need to do some image compression to save some disk space? Probably to speed up the loading as well? An easy way to compress images in PHP is to use the GD library: Create an image object from the original image – $img […]

Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a user role management system with PHP and MySQL. So you have a project that needs to identify and restrict what each user is able to do? Creating a permissions structure is often a pretty grueling task and a pain to integrate… But we shall walk through

Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a simple responsive PHP video gallery. Once upon a time in the stone age of the Internet, we have to struggle with all kinds of funky 3rd party video plugins to even play a single video. Fast forward to today, things are really easy. Creating a simple

Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a simple web scraper in PHP. So you need to extract some information from a website periodically? That calls for a web scraper, and it is actually pretty simple. We can build a web scraper in PHP by using CURL to fetch the HTML, then DOMDocument to

Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to get the user’s country and location from their IP address. Yes, IP addresses are not “randomly distributed”, and each region has its own specific range of addresses. We can do a reverse check and determine where a user is from with their IP address. This process is

Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to create a date range in PHP. Need to loop through a range of dates, or generate date intervals? There are 2 common ways to create a range of dates in PHP: Using DateTime,DateInterval, and DatePeriod objects. $start = new DateTime(“2020-01-01”); $end = new DateTime(“2020-02-02”); $interval = new

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 quick tutorial on PHP delimiters, and you may have stumbled on the term “PHP delimiter” from somewhere. Just what does it mean and what does it do? Delimiters are used to set boundaries, denote where the start and end are. In PHP, a pair of <?php and ?> tags are used as

Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to create a pretty URL system with PHP and htaccess. Showing the actual file name of scripts in the URL is ugly, and it is a security risk. If you are looking to create clean, human-friendly URLs, it actually isn’t that difficult to achieve – Read on for