Category Archives: PHP Lessons

In this lesson we are going to assemble a basic website and code it in PHP. In our previous beginner course on lesson #9 we built a website with HTML. I then taught you how to use CSS and JavaScript with those sites. Now I am going to show you how programmers write HTML and Read More

PHP 7.2.11 is the latest PHP version. We will be using this version for this series of lessons. We will take you from an absolute beginner programmer with no knowledge of PHP and build upon that. Please make sure that you have completed the absolute beginner web development course. We will be building off of Read More

After you have installed XAMPP then you will want to test that everything is working. In this tutorial we are going to make sure that we have everything working properly before we dive into the programming. You will also want to come back here in future tutorials to repeat these steps. TURN EVERYTHING ON IN Read More

Now, you have to set up a server. We have completed the Absolute Beginner Web Development Courses. It has help a lot of people with the basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. However when it comes to web development there are a couple more things that you need to know in order to grow your Read More

Recently I was working on a project that required the “checked” value on a radio button. I had put the form item in a php loop to update products for a marketing site. I used the following code. Example of Checked Value For Radio Select <label class=”btn btn-info active”><input type=”radio” name=”optradio” id=”optradio'” value=”shipped” checked>Shipped</label> This is Read More

This is a lost password script tutorial. I write it in AJAX, JQuery, Bootstrap, PHP and MySQL. People frequently lose their passwords. Password reset scripts are almost mandatory, with people expecting software to do everything for them. Writing scripts that let people reset their passwords do pose some risks. Are they using a secure email Read More

In this tutorial we create a contact form that enters contact information into a database. It will then send an email to you from your website. We do this with AJAX, jQuery, Bootstrap, PHP and MySql. https://youtu.be/y4M_u–t5YA AJAX jQuery Functions Used ready() function to check the readiness of the DOM {Document Object Model} click() function Read More

Let’s create a login script with AJAX JQuery, PHP and MySQL in this tutorial. We will create a form to login to the system and use AJAX with JQuery for the process. Next we will use PHP to process the form and return data to the webpage without reloading. Then we will set session variables Read More

You need to sanitize your string before you insert them into your databases. We show you how to do that in this lesson with “FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING”, “FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL” and “FILTER_FLAG_STRIP_HIGH”. We use jQuery and AJAX to pass the variables to the processor. This lesson is a continuation of the last lesson Create Secure Password Sign Up Script With Read More

Create a secure password sign up script with PHP, jQuery and AJAX with this easy to follow tutorial. Preliminary steps for this tutorial is to go over the last post Create A Database and Table At The Same Time With PHP. If you are already familiar with creating database tables this is the structure for the database Read More

Create a database and a table at the same time with php in mysql. All you will need is the connection information to your database. This is what you will need. Preliminary Information Needed Connection to the host. For most of you this will be localhost. Mysql username. Mysql password. Applies To PHP5 + Mysql You can Read More

In this Ajax tutorial, you will learn how to process more than one form item. Ajax is very fast and can retrieve data in a split second. In the last ajax tutorial we showed you how to process one form item. Usually when you need a form on a web page, you need to process Read More

The following was a deep thought out request that I received on YouTube. I will be making this series in the near future for people that are interested in programming. You can see the outline below. Stay tuned! Message About PHP7 from YouTube I am keeping an eye your on channel related to php. Are Read More

This post covers how to make a free website backup. Once finished you will be able to download a complete website backup zip file. This will also include your database. This task is very easy but I am going to explain the process in detail. Update: Backed by popular demand I was asked to do Read More

Sometimes when you transfer a wordpress site you will get errors. Keep in mind that your old server may be using a different version of PHP than your new server. If you keep getting prompted to download a file when you go to the front end of your website you may need to put this Read More