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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 tutorial describes how to write text on to an existing PNG image using image functions in PHP by using a simple example. Each step is clearly described to make it easy to follow.

Scheduling events to run at certain times can be a useful feature. You may want to backup your database or update a set of files you have cached on your server or perform any number of other resource intensive tasks. You can manually visit the page and this works fine if you have a good memory, it isn't time critical and it doesn't need to be run several times a day. If you and your task don't fit into all those categories (and even if you do but have better things to do with your time) a better alternative will be to run your script using cron. In this article I list the options for scheduling a task to run periodically and I go into detail on running a script with cron.

Search through files and directories on your server. You can create a compete search tool which would allow you to search through pathnames, file's contents and MySQL databases. It is created as an API, so you can get your results in following formats json, csv, xml, atom, txt, html, stats or print.

In this tutorial I will show you how you can get any stock quotes from yahoo and display it on your own site.

Did you know that require() and include() work differently? Both are used for including code in another file into your program, but there is a crucial difference in how they operate when that file cannot be read which any PHP programmer needs to know about. There's also a slight difference with require() between new and older versions of PHP which this tutorial discusses too.

This is an introductory tutorial to teach you how to send emails via PHP. It is quick and easy and aimed for beginners.

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.

Using the SMTP server from Gmail is a good choice for mail application with less than 500 recipients a day. This tutorials shows you how to send mail messages via SMTP using PHPmailer and Gmail.

This tutorial will demonstrate how to handle file uploads in PHP. The example will show how to create a simple XHTML form with a file field, and a PHP script that handles the form submission by moving the uploaded file to a designated directory.

An example of simple function ae_redir() for HTTP redirect. It supports relative site paths and permanent(seo-compatible) redirects. There is also function ae_redir_die() which stops execution of script after sending redirect.

This tutorial shows how you can automate the process of adding watermarks on images from your site right when they are uploaded.

This is just a Simple Counter, Try this counter first and hope you will make some professional ones after it by trying some other good Counter tutorials.

This 2-page tutorial shows how to work HTML forms in PHP. Topics covered: Drop menu builder, Radio buttons, Check boxes, Error processing, and more.

This tutorial shows you how to dynamically compile the list of files in a given directory. You can then conduct keyword searches on the compiled list for finding matching files.

Explains how to set and check for cookies using PHP. Also demonstrates a simple way to read and write data to a file.

Simple tutorial explains how to add date time stamp "page last updated on..." for a specified file using filemtime function.

After i needed something like this for myself i decided to make a page of rit so that other people who need it can use it too. This little code will basically list every image in a folder using php. You can alter it in every way you can/want.

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.

Variables are nothing but identifiers to the memory location to store data. We can create any number of varibles. In PHP all the variables begin with a dollar sign "$" and the value can be assignes using the "=" operator as shown below: Another important thing in PHP is that all the statements must end with a semicolon ";". In PHP we needn't have to specify the variable type, as it takes the data type of the assigned value. From the above example we understand that '$Name' is of Data type String and '$Age' is of type Numeric.