Posts in category: Tutorials

Forcing HTTPS with PHP

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Forcing HTTPS with PHP

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

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Cpanel create emails with php

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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Create PDF with form data

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 ...

David Carr

How to backup and restore a MySQL Database

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...

David Carr

Beginner Guides

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials | Tools | Development

Beginner Guides

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

David Carr

Upload multiple files with a single input with HTML 5 and PHP

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Upload multiple files with a single input with HTML 5 and PHP

HTML 5 makes it possible to upload multiple files using a single input thanks for a new multiple att...

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Select previous and next rows in MySQL

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Select previous and next rows in MySQL

Selecting previous and next rows based on the current row is a common task in most web applications,...

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Backup to Dropbox with PHP

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials | Social Media

Backup to Dropbox with PHP

Recently I've been looking into Dropbox's API so I decided to have a go at building an appli...

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Running mysqldump with PHP

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Running mysqldump with PHP

Every project should have regular backups. Writing database tables to a file using PHP while possibl...

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Using closures and $this within a class with PHP

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Using closures and $this within a class with PHP

Closures are really useful, especially for creating plugins when a full blown controller is not need...

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Get initials from a name

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Get initials from a name

Here is a simple way to collect the first letter of each word, This can be useful to get say a perso...

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Quick way to add hours and minutes with PHP

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Quick way to add hours and minutes with PHP

This post describes a very simple way to add or sub-tract time to a given time using the date and st...

David Carr

HTML5 support for older browsers

HTML | Tutorials

HTML5 support for older browsers

Sitepoint released a great post today HTML5 Forms: The Markup it explains the various inpu...

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Form to CSV with PHP

Demos | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Form to CSV with PHP

Outputting a forms contents to a CSV file is incredibly handy and easy to do, this post will cover t...

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Display Xbox live data with xboxapi and cache it

Demos | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Display Xbox live data with xboxapi and cache it

Xbox does not provide an official API for anyone to use. Their are a few sites that provide an API o...

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