PHP Tutorials — Basics

In this tutorial we will learn about loops and arrays. They are also the most common things used in WordPress coding. We will come to that on a later tutorial. Now lets learn loops first. Below is a simple PHP code for while and for loop

Portable UTF-8 is a library that enables Unicode support in PHP applications. It is written in PHP and does not need mbstring, iconv, UTF-8 enabled PCRE or any other library. The benefit of Portable UTf-8 is that you can bundle it with your applications and it needs no external support.

Learn to implement your own web scraper in PHP to fetch almost anything you want from the website of your choice. A real world example showing how to fetch photos from a vBulletin forum.

A mother of all PHP and MySql tutorials. It includes every thing you need to know to start coding, from setting up the complete environment, very basic first steps, using loops, functions, if statements, to creating your very own MySql database, learning the basic SQL statements, connecting ,writing and retrieving data from database using PHP, and finally you will learn how to create your very own PHP forum from scratch. Beyond that, sky is the limit!

User submitted content should always be moderated before its used or outputted on a public website, any system however sophisticated won’t be able to understand contexts of words.

Here’s a quick way to secure a page so only logged in users can access it otherwise the user is shown a login page.

Using php’s date function you can get all sorts of date combinations including finding the week commencing date for any date.

This tutorial describes what is functions in PHP and how to use them. One of the key features of nearly all programming languages is the ability to create reusable code that can be used on-demand. In PHP this is achieved with the creation of user-defined functions. In this article I will show you how to define and use functions in PHP.

You must be thinking why yet another AJAX comments system when there are plenty available online? The answer is simple. This one is perfect. You must check out this awesome PHP+jQuery+AJAX comments solution which also protects from CSRF/XSRF web attacks.

The first time when i used WordPress and created this site, i didn’t knew the concept of Installing WordPress on localhost as i was learning it through a book (Nice book – Missing Manuals WordPress) and they didn’t taught the same. Now there was no problem in that approach but i could have experiment more if it was my laptop , then on domain of a Web Server. It is so simple through XAMPP on windows machine that anyone can do it. Let begin installing XAMPP on Windows 7 laptop.