Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to set the mail from address in PHP. Getting some errors when sending out emails, or want to change the “email from” address? To change the email from address with the mail function – mail(“jon@doe.com”, “Subject”, “Message”, “From: YOUR NAME <your@email.com>”); To set the from address using PHP …
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Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to read zip files in PHP. So the old zip functions are deprecated in PHP 8, how do we read files using Zip Archive then? This has caused some confusion, but it is actually very straightforward. To read zip files in PHP, we can use statIndex() to get …
Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to remove line breaks in PHP. Need to get rid of all line breaks from a string? Remove some extra ones? The common ways to remove line breaks in PHP are: $nobreak = str_replace([“\r”, “\n”], “”, $STRING); $nobreak = preg_replace(“/\r|\n/”, “”, $STRING); $nobreak = trim($STRING); That should cover …
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Welcome to a quick guide on PHP headers. Headers are probably one of the biggest mysteries to beginners, you may have heard that it “sends an HTTP header”. But just what are HTTP headers, and what do they do exactly? Let us walk through a couple of examples in this guide – Read on! ⓘ …
Welcome to a quick tutorial on how to redirect in PHP. Need to redirect the user after signing in? Or redirect to another page because the old one has been moved? To redirect a page in PHP, we simply have to output the location HTTP header right at the top of the script: header(“Location: http://site.com/somewhere”); …
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’); $white = imagecolorallocate($img, 255, 255, 255); $font = “C:\Windows\Fonts\arial.ttf”; imagettftext($img, …
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Welcome to a tutorial on how to display an image from a file in PHP. So you have a secured folder of images that is not publicly accessible, but still want registered users to be able to view? Yes, it is possible to do so. To display an image from a file in PHP, simply …
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Welcome to a tutorial on how to remove whitespace in PHP. Need to strip some additional spaces in PHP? There are actually a couple of ways to do it: $nowhite = str_replace(” “, “”, $STRING); $nowhite = preg_replace(“/\s/”, “”, $STRING); $trimmed = trim($STRING); That should cover the basics, but read on for more examples! ⓘ …
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Welcome to a tutorial on how to force download files in PHP. Need to offer a file as a download, but the browser opens it instead? We can “fix” it by creating a PHP file download script. To force a file download in PHP, we can use the header() function to output the appropriate HTTP …
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Welcome to a tutorial and example of PHP MYSQL injection – Plus how to prevent it. You have probably heard of this “SQL injection” thing from all over the Internet and wondering why it is such a big deal. In simple terms, SQL injection is the attempt to change the original statement to do something …
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