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This unique tutorial is the first of its kind ! It is a step by step tutorial for creating a hot & happening site like YELP. Executing the steps inside will instantly make you a PRO PHP - LARAVEL developer.

This article explains how to perform basic CRUD operations on a datavase using the included DataContext class. It shows how to insert/update and query data.

You can use the SMS to send service alerts (send message to your registered customers about blackFriday, cyberMonday sales), verifications (security codes for log-in), reminders (about the closing deadline for your colleauges, last minute promotions). If you have a webshop, you can send receipts or if you are a retailer you can surprise your visiting consumers with an SMS what hides a coupon for a personalised daily sale not to mention about the graphic messages. To integrate an SMS functionality to your website,all you have to do is to follow 4 easy and quick steps. • Step 1 –Install Ozeki NG SMS Gateway to your computer. You can download and try the trial version for free. • Step 2 – Create a HTML form for sending text messages. To get this solution working you have to follow the guide in the website and save the sendsms.html file to your webserver. • Step 3 – Create your PHP SMS Script

When it comes to parsing web pages in PHP, you need to look no further than Simple HTML DOM Parser. This DOM parser is an easy to implement library for parsing / scraping web pages. Let’s see you how we can use this library for our scraping needs.

When working with CSS, it is common to use Hexadecimal Notation of colors, while on the back end, many PHP functions (like imagecolorallocate, imagecolorclosest, imagecolorexact etc, require that you pass on colors as red, green and blue integers. This function can be helpful if you need to convert hexadecimal color literal to red, green and blue int values for use elsewhere. This function accepts hex, converts to RGB and stores the respective color values in $red, $green and $blue variables passed by reference.

How to serve up dynamic descriptions for your search results, display the text in front of and after the user's search query and even highlight the words they are searching for. This makes sure your visitors see the word(s) they are searching for and can see the context in which their search term is being used on a given page. Now they can properly determine whether any of your search results are relevant to what they are looking for and you are not sending them on a wild goose chase through your website, or even worse, scaring them off completely.

We describe a very common situation in Symfony 2 - you have a user type that is not allowed to access certain pages. By default, an access denied exception is thrown - with this tutorial, we describe how to simply redirect the user with a pleasant flash message.

This is a simple function that returns state names and their abbreviations in an array. This is a very useful function that can save you loads of time when you have to make a us state drop down list for a form.

Here is a simple class that will return the Social Score of a website URL. You can also use this class to display the individual score, likes, +1's, tweets or shares from Facebook, Google+, Twitter and LinkedIn. The beauty of this class is that it uses all of the social networks' public API's so you do not need to have or obtain a single API key or developer account to use this class.

This tutorial for beginners to PHP explains how to generate a calendar for a particular month which you can then include in your website

This tutorial for beginners to PHP explains how to raise a number to the power of another using PHP. This will allow you to calculate a number squared, cubed, to the power of 4, etc.

This tutorial, aimed at beginners, explains how to take the square root, cube root, or higher root, of a number using PHP.

A tutorial explaining how you can use php code in files which don't have a .php extension if your server supports it.

This tutorial explains the differences between require() and include() in PHP with examples, and explains when you should use each of them.

A quick tutorial to show how you can make interactive AJAX dropdown menus that are database driven.

Tutorial on how to build a login system with PHP factory pattern including source codes and explanation

Pretty often you need to run a couple of queries against your MySQL database on the client's web server. Usually phpMyAdmin does the job well but there are situations when you just need to upload something to the server and open in the borwser, without any configuration steps. Welcome Bike, lightweight phpMyAdmin replacement. If you already have a CMS installed on the web server (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla), simply upload Bike to CMS's subfolder and open it in the browser.

This tutorial will show you how to rotate an image in your PHP scripts. You'll need to have the GD library installed to be able to use some of the functions we use in this guide, though this is included with most PHP installations so there's a chance you'll have it.

This tutorial for PHP beginners explains how to find the different parts which form the current URL of a webpage, and display them or use them in your scripts.

The query string is a great way to input information into your PHP scripts. This tutorial for beginners will show you how to pass variables to a PHP page using the query string, and how to access them from that page.