PHP

Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to create an autocomplete textbox with PHP and MySQL. Looking to add autocomplete features to a textbox? But it doesn’t make any sense to load an entire library and inflate the loading times. Well, here is a sharing of my autocomplete using only pure HTML and Javascript – […]

Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to create a simple login system in PHP without a database. So you just want a simple login authentication without too much difficult technical stuff? The general steps to create a PHP login system without a database are: Create an HTML login form. Store the user credentials in

Welcome to a tutorial on how to store and retrieve PHP arrays in an MYSQL database. So you want to store a PHP array in the MYSQL database? Well, it is possible, but not so straightforward. To store an array in the database, there are 2 possible alternatives: Convert the array into a JSON-encoded string,

Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a simple shopping cart with PHP and MySQL. Yes, there are a ton of shopping cart scripts in the world, but they are also bloated with features that people rarely even use. So let us walk through a basic shopping cart, without using any third-party frameworks –

Welcome to a tutorial on how to support cross-domain sessions in PHP. Yes, it is technically possible to share a single session across multiple domains, but it is quite a challenging task. To support cross-domain sessions in PHP, we need to: Save the sessions into a shared common database. Set one of your websites to

Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to calculate VAT and GST in PHP. Working on your own eCommerce platform in PHP? Trying to figure out how tax should be calculated? To calculate the grand total with tax in PHP – $grand = $total  * ((100 + TAX PERCENT) / 100); To get the taxable

Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to catch all errors and exceptions in PHP. Need to cast a net and capture all the errors to figure out what went wrong? We can capture all errors in PHP using the set_exception_handler() function. For example: function eecho ($ex) { echo $ex->getMessage(); } set_exception_handler(“eecho”); That covers the

Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to send an HTML UTF-8 email in PHP. So you want to send out an HTML email in PHP? In a language that is not English? Yes, it is possible. To send an HTML UTF8 email in PHP, we have to set the appropriate HTML and UTF-8 email

Welcome to a tutorial on the various ways to encrypt, decrypt, and verify passwords in PHP. Since you are reading this guide, I will assume that you are looking for ways to create a more secure system. Yes, I understand that we are web developers and not security experts. But security is a big concern,

Welcome to a quick tutorial and examples of how to send an email in PHP. New to PHP and need to send out emails? It is actually very straightforward. There are 2 common ways to send emails in PHP. Use the native mail function – mail(“jon@doe.com”, “Subject”, “Message”); Use the PHPMailer library. $mail = new