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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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Basic Shopping Cart System

NOTE: This is a tutorial on creating a basic shopping cart system and giving an idea on how to create the basic functions of a shopping cart system and does not explain the securing of user input or checking whether the added products ‘exist’ as that all depend on what products you offer and so [...]

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Basic Login System

In the previous tutorial we’ve been making a register system. In this tutorial we’ll be creating a login system for it, where members can login to your website and for example get access to a members area of your website. We’ll basicly be using SESSION variables in this tutorial to save the login session of [...]

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Basic Register System

In this tutorial we’ll be creating a register system in which people can create their own account. It’s a basic register system which uses some mysql functions to insert data into the database (create the account), loops and some PHP functions to handle the POST variables. We’ll start creating our register page with a form [...]

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POST Variables

When you create forms, you can either use the POST or GET method. In this chapter I’ll be explaining the POST method, in which the data is put into POST variables. POST variables are just like normal arrays which contain a certain amount of (sub-)variables. Once a form is submitted, for each form field one [...]

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