Most Useful and Interesting PHP Tutorials For Beginners

Asim Shahzad Posted on 02. Mar, 2012 | Comment in!

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Most of the websites based on PHP as supported language we can say this is ultimate useful web application and widely accepted server side scripting language among developers due to its easy to learn nature and some famous open source builds on PHP language, in this post we have “Most Useful and Interesting PHP Tutorials For Beginners” means every beginner should take a look into it, this is a combination of neat functionality of PHP with the moreover expertise of JavaScript you can develop several pretty cool results. In an effort to help you for web development and can be rooted right into the HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), you can idea whenever you write code about that syntax is precise similarity with Perl and C language.

The below list of useful PHP Tutorials will help you in your most of the web projects, easy to learn and detailed information will make you professional web developer.

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Object-Oriented PHP for Beginners

For many PHP programmers, object-oriented programming is a frightening concept, full of complicated syntax and other roadblocks. As detailed in my book, Pro PHP and jQuery, you’ll learn the concepts behindobject-oriented programming (OOP), a style of coding in which related actions are grouped into classes to aid in creating more-compact, effective code.

Learn How To Strip HTML & PHP Tags From User Submitted Data Using PHP – PubPixel

If you ever need to strip out the HTML or PHP tags from data, PHP gives you a way to do this via the strip_tags()function, which was introduced to us in PHP version 3.0.8. In PHP 5.0.0 and up the strip_tags() function is now binary safe.

Create A Weather Application With Google API Using PHP

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a quick and easy weather application in PHP using the Google Weather API.

How To Apply Special Effects To Your Images Using PHP

Now in-order to apply special effects to an image or in other words a filter to an image using PHP you will need to use PHP’s imagefilter() function, which was introduced to us in PHP 5. You should also take note that the magefilter()function is only available if PHP is compiled with the bundled version of the GD library.

Why You’re a Bad PHP Programmer

In this article, we’ll go over a list of bad practices that are worth examining, reevaluating, and correcting immediately.

How To Grab The <meta> Tags Data From A Local File Or A URL Using PHP

Now in-order to grab the <meta> tags content attributes values from a web page or file you will need to use PHP’sget_meta_tags() function which was introduced to us in PHP 4. The get_meta_tags() function extracts all the <meta> tags content attributes values from a file and returns it as an array.

Creating an API-Centric Web Application

In this tutorial, we’ll discuss how to create an API-centric web application, and explain why this is essential in today’s multi-platform world.

Testing your PHP Codebase with EnhancePHP

We should be testing our code more than we do. Part of the reason we don’t, I think, is that we don’t know exactly how. Well, I’m getting rid of that excuse today: I’m teaching you to test your PHP with the EnhancePHP framework.

Removing the .php extension from a URL

If you are developing a website in PHP then most of your files will end in the .PHP file extension. This works just fine for your development, but when you release your website the .php extension is just added characters in the URL.

Quickly Setup an Apache/PHP/MySQL Work Environment with XAMPP

If you want to get started with programming in PHP, you’re probably wondering what software you need to setup your workspace locally. What we need are PHP’s core files, a database server and a web server. The most commonly used setup is PHP with a MySQL database, running on an Apache web server.

How to create a CHAT system using PHP, MySQL and Ajax

In this tutorial I will show you how to build a Chat system using PHP, MySQL and Ajax, which Autom.

Wrangling with the Facebook Graph API

In this tutorial, we’ll be building an application that reads and publishes data to and from Facebook using Facebook’s Graph API. Interested? Join me after the jump!

Get Any Website Alexa Rank Using PHP

In past tutorials here you have learned how to get your Twitter followers and your Feedburner subscriber numbers. They are both useful information to use to judge how popular your website is. But there is another way to judge how popular your website is and that is your Alexa Ranking.

Make Cross Domain AJAX Calls With jQuery and PHP

In this article I will show you how to use cURL to post data from a jQuery post.

Easy Package Management for CodeIgniter with Sparks

This tutorial interweaves an entry-level overview of the architecture and usage of the sparks system with the creation of dovecote—a simple spark for managing RSS data.

How to Create a Time Based CSS Style Sheet Switcher

This tutorial shows you how to create a time based CSS style sheet switcher using PHP that lets you change multiple style sheets at once at specific times of the day. There’s also a little bit of jQuery UI thrown in just for fun!

How To Make A Simple Paginate PHP Class With Light & Dark Styles

Create a simple paginate class in PHP made up of 3 functions.

Image gallery using php and mysql blob storage and displaying the image from mysql blob

Image gallery using php and mysql blob storage was already discussed in this website. Please take a look at it.

20 Ways to Save Kittens and Learn PHP

With that in mind, these 20 tips will teach you how to follow best practices, and save lives…kitty lives.

The Ins and Outs of PHP Exceptions

In this article, we’ll learn about PHP exceptions, and how you can use them to soup up your application’s error handling.

Upload an image and downsize it (in KB`s) using PHP and GD

This is way too much, when you could simply downsize the image to around 1 – 5KB, this is only the 1 – 5% of the size of the original image. Just imagine the benefits of downsizing 100.000 images…

PHP Code to Combine and Compress CSS

Create a PHP file in the same location as your CSS files. Insert the following snippet in the PHP file and change the include of the CSS files to match yours. Then in your HTML instead of calling each of the CSS files replace these with a link to the PHP file.

Creating a Diary style PHP Guestbook

Today I prepared new interesting tutorial – I will tell how you can create ajax PHP guestbook with own unique design. Our records will be saved into SQL database. This table will contain next info: name of sender, email, guestbook record, date-time of record and ip of sender. Of course, we will use jQuery too (to make it ajaxy).

How to use Memcache with PHP

Today I have new article for PHP. Last time I did post about Memcache with PHP. Today we will talking about caching in PHP again. I will show you how you can use Memcache in PHP.

Build Ajax Data Grids with CodeIgniter and jQuery

In this lesson, we will create a CodeIgniter library that allows us to generate data grids automatically for managing any database table. I’ll explain each step required to create this class; so you’ll likely learn some new OOP techniques/concepts in the process!

SEND E-MAILS WITH PHP MAIL();

Today together you will know how to send emails using the famous function mail.

Learn How To Create An AJAX PHP Coming Soon Page

In this tutorial we are going to learn how to create a Coming Soon Page which allows the visitor to send their email address which can be delivered to an email or to be stored in a database. This will just a similar approach to a contact form but then a setting will decide how the email address is stored.

How to Create an Advanced Twitter Widget

This tutorial demonstrates how to create a custom Twitter widget from scratch that uses the Twitter API, Web Intents and @Anywhere. Using the Twitter platform to create a fun, interactive tool for your website can be beneficial both in the learning and promotion departments!

Integrating Two-Factor Authentication with CodeIgniter

In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at implementing this in our CodeIgniter application.

How to Work with PHP and FTP

In this tutorial, our goal is to create an FTP class with PHP that is well written, useful, and expandable.

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