PHP Tutorials

Create an In-Place Editing System: One Step Further
A few months ago, you learned how to create an in-place editing system. Today, we'll take things a step further as we create a simple backend, which will allow our website to remember the changes that we've made.

How to Parse a CSV File
In this tutorial you will learn a simple way to parse CSV files using PHP and output the text of the fields you need. This tutorial is not going to go into what you can do with the data once you get it from the CSV as the possibilities are endless.

Associative array with str_replace function
If you are a PHP developer, I'm sure you know the str_replace function for replacing strings and are probably aware that you can pass an array of strings as the search strings and an array as the replacements. What this post looks at is a way of using a single associative array instead of two arrays, which makes dealing with a large number of replacements much more maintainable in your code

jQuery Contact form for your website
In this tutorial we show how to create a modern contact form that is linked by a simple text link and opens in a fancy Lightbox where all form handling, including reCAPTCHA validations, are processed by PHP and the jQuery Ajax function. After the form submission was successful we are using the PHP Class script PHPMailer to send the message via SMTP.

Add Gravatar support to your web sites
Add Gravatar (global avatar) support to your web sites.

Wordpress: Customize the_content();
If you've ever wondered how you can get Wordpress to actually let you edit the more link at the bottom of post previews that show on the homepage, youve found the right place.

Get info from XML file
I'm going to show you what you can do with SimpleXML in PHP and how to get info from XML file.

Apache Server PHP MySQL phpMyAdmin Setup using AppServ
Our goal is to be able to run PHP scripts on our own computers for the purpose of dynamic web testing and development. What exactly should you do to get the scripts run properly? Unlike running general HTML scripts in IE or any other browser, running PHP requires some components for the script compilation. The answer to this question is by installing a web server (Apache), PHP Core, and MySQL (for database-driven websites) on your PC.

Making summaries from larger bodies of text using substr
Many websites containing articles have a summary which leads you to the main article. PHP has a function for displaying a small section of the text, it is substr(). substr() has a number of uses, it can limit the amount of text by a set value...

Setting array keys and displaying the data
Arrays in PHP are variables which can hold more than one data item. Actually, they can hold many. This is useful if you need to hold a recordset or list of data, often needed in PHP scripts.

Create download link
This tutorial explains how to create a link to download a file using PHP

Adding and Managing Image Content in Joomla!
Utilizing multimedia effectively within a Joomla website requires discipline and knowledge. Multimedia provides us with stunning interactive user experiences and wonderful design options. This tutorial provides complete assistance that will enable you to utilize image content effectively within your Joomla! website. Along with browser support and accessibility for images, you will learn to create multimedia image galleries and slideshows as well as include images in articles and modules. (pdf tutorial, install acrobat reader to read this tutorial)

Learn how to implement Shopping Cart
Create a real-life storefront application from design to deployment and explore all the major aspects of the Zend Framework. This Chapter helps readers in creating the shopping cart Model, Controller, and Views.

Displaying Stock Tickers using AJAX
How to create an interactive stock ticker using AJAX and PHP.

Loops
This beginners tutorial will teach you the basic of loops. How to get computers to do lots of boring stuff quickly.

Simple Pagination
All around the world you see a million tutorials on pagination. Mind you, I'm not saying that these are bad tutorials. In fact, some of them are generally pretty good.

Modifiers in regular expression patterns
We all like regex patterns, because its a great way to select, filter or replace strings, numbers or complete code blocks. How about PCRE modifiers, do you use them very often? A few weeks ago I need to use one because I get in trouble with line breaks in some string, I needed to select in some transaction .

Saving Data into Excel the Easy Way
PHP: If youre looking for an easy way to output your data from a PHP script into a Excel file, youve got to check out this script MS Excel Stream Handler which I came across at the PHP Classes site.

Debugging your Code
Finding errors in your code by enabling PHP error reporting.

Dynamic SQL Queries
One use of PHP is to create a connection to a MySQL database, use a query to select some data, display or loop through it. In the previous tutorial, we looped through some data which was provided to us using a static SQL query.