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Creating a simple Blog System – Part 1

Part 1 – Overview of Functions, Database & Files Overview In this tutorial we’ll be creating a very simple blog system. We won’t be using OOP yet in this tutorial. For creating a Blog using OOP in PHP, another more advanced tutorial will be written and posted as well. The same goes for creating a more advance [...]

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Retrieving User Input Data

In this tutorial we’ll be retrieving data from form fields. To do this we’ll first create an example form. We’re using the POST method to send the form data in the first example. Will later explain what this means, and how we can then retrieve the data from the form fields. Also the GET method [...]

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Object Oriented Programming Basics – Extending Classes

Extending classes It’s also possible to have a second class which extends the main class. This make the class able to use the (public) functions (methods) & properties of the main class inside the other class. To extend a class we use extends. Example: class BasicClass { } class Class2 extends BasicClass { } Here Class2 extends the class ‘BasicClass’ which means [...]

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Securing data in PHP

It’s very important to secure your data in PHP correctly. Because if you don’t, your website is in risk of being harmed by SQL injections and other dangerous code injections, which you obviously don’t want. So to protect your website against these code attacks, this tutorial was written ;) This tutorial will explain the reasons to [...]

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PHP Smilies System

In this tutorial we’ll be creating a system which will convert messages including text smilies into messages including icon smilies ( text => smilie icons ). Preknowledge For this tutorial it’s prefered that you’ve got some preknowledge about php variables, arrays, functions and the foreach loop. If not, I’d recommend you to have a look at [...]

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