PHP

Welcome to a tutorial on how to read a CSV file and display it as an HTML table in PHP. So you want to read a CSV file somewhere on the server, and generate an HTML table with it? Well, it is actually stupidly simple to do, no third-party libraries are required – Read on […]

Welcome to a tutorial on how to store and retrieve images in an MYSQL database with PHP. So for some reason, you have to store some images in a database. Yes, it is possible to do so, and actually relatively easy. Let us walk through a simple example – Read on!     TABLE OF

Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to write multiple lines of text with PHP GD. So you have probably messed with GD to write some text, only to realize there is no way to “automatically break into multiple lines”. At the time of writing, the only way to write multiple lines of text with

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

Welcome to a tutorial on how to get and set the timezone in PHP. So you are working on an international project, and have to deal with timezones? Use date_default_timezone_get() to get the default system timezone. To set the default system timezone, change the date.timezone directive in php.ini, or use date_default_timezone_set(TIMEZONE) in the scripts. To

Welcome to a tutorial on how to build a simple like and dislike rating system with PHP and MySQL. Social media is big these days, and I am sure you have already seen “upvote/downvote” or “like/dislike” features everywhere. If you want to create your own independent like/dislike system, let us walk through an example –

Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to write and append to files in PHP. Need to write some data to a file in your project? There are 2 common ways to write and append data to files in PHP: Write a string to a file. file_put_contents(“FILE.NAME”, “DATA”); To append to an existing file, pass

Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to upload a file with PHP CURL. Need to do a server-to-server file transfer with PHP? Yes, it is definitely possible. To do a file upload with PHP CURL, simply set CURL to do a POST and attach the file. $cf = new CURLFile(“FILE-TO-UPLOAD.EXT”); $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch,

Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to compare dates PHP. Need to find out which is an earlier or later date in PHP? Do some date comparisons? The common ways to compare dates in PHP are: Parse the dates into date-time objects and compare them – if (new DateTime(“DATE A”) > new DateTime(“DATE B”))

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”); $size = 24; $x = 5; $y = 30; $angle