Posts in category: PHP & MySQL

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Extract image source from img tag

To extract the image source from an image tag making use of preg_replace and a regular exp...

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PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Checking all array keys are the same with PHP

Here is a simple way to check the values of an array contain the same value using array_count_values...

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PHP & MySQL | Tutorials | Social Media

Post updates to Buffer using PHP

Buffer is a great social media management tool, perfect to scheduling facebook and twitter updates....

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PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Leverage PHP to decrease page load times

Increase your page speed by merging your various css and js files into a single css and js file.....

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PHP & MySQL | Tutorials | Tools

Sending emails with PHPMailer and Mandrill

Sending emails with PHP’s mail function is not recommended it’s not reliable and hard to...

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PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Create a list of items from a folder using scandir

Quick tip to create a list page that will read the files from a directory and link to them is super...

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PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Reading markdown files with parsedown

Read me files on GitHub are written in Markdown, I wanted to be able to grab the contents of a...

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PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Scraping GitHub

For an upcoming project I need to be able to dynamically get information about a GitHub repository s...

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PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

comparing multiple values against in_array

PHP's in_array is useful to determine if an item is in an array but when needing to compare...

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PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Using Premailer to convert styles to inline styles for HTML emails automatically with PHP

Sending HTML emails can be tricky, not all mail clients support the same css. Most ignore external s...

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PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Forcing HTTPS with PHP

Using HTTPS is recomended, Google also preferes HTTPS they recently announced: “HTTPS is&...

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IMAP | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Cpanel create emails with php

Here’s a easy way to create new email addresses for Cpanel using PHP. I recently needed t...

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Demos | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Create PDF with form data

It’s possible to populate a PDF using information provided by a form using the MPDF ...

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PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

How to backup and restore a MySQL Database

I was recently asked how do backup and restore a database. As with most things in programming there...

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PHP & MySQL | Tutorials | Tools | Development

Beginner Guides

The following is a collection of useful starter guides and tutorials.

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