Archive for the ‘PHP’ Category

Ultimate Guestbook Tutorial: How to build a Guestbook with a honeypot, error checking, IP banning, pagination, e-mail notification and smilies with PHP and mySQL

Saturday, April 26th, 2008 Posted in PHP | 32 Comments »

In this tutorial i will teach you how to make a guestbook script with PHP and mySQL. Guestbooks are very common today on the internet and are great for getting user feedback or a simple hello from your site fan's. ...



Tutorial: How to build a poll system with PHP and mySQL

Friday, April 11th, 2008 Posted in PHP | 15 Comments »

If you have been doing the other tutorials on this site you will notice that I have been teaching PHP and mySQL through projects. Projects that you can slot into your website, or if you are building a project, code ...



HowTo: Get Cookies Across Subdomains PHP

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in PHP | 2 Comments »

So you are using cookies on your website, but when a visitor visits www.yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com the cookie doesn't get set across both! That is because in essence, www. is simply a subdomain. The "www" component is not a protocol, ...



Tutorial: How to make an Image Upload and Thumbnailer Script with cURL

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in PHP | 1 Comment »

So you have completed the file upload tutorial. The tutorial has taught you how to upload an image using a form, and then it auto makes a thumbnail and shows it to you, nice. Now lets say you are on ...



Tutorial: How to make an Image Upload and Thumbnailer Script PHP

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in PHP | 3 Comments »

In this tutorial we will make a thumbnailing script using PHP. The script will allow your users to upload their images using a html form, and then be shown the thumbnail and a link to the file on completion. Also ...



Howto: Get Number of Rows

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in PHP | No Comments »

If you have a MySQL table and you want to know how many records there are in this table you can run a query on the entire table for example: This will show you how many rows were supplied in that ...



Tutorial: Doing basic MySQL database stuff

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in PHP | No Comments »

This tutorial is quite easy. If you want to connect to a mysql database you can use something like this: $host = 'localhost'; $username = 'yourusername'; $password = 'yourpassword'; $databasename = 'yourdbname'; //don't edit this stuff okay? $connect = mysql_connect($host, $username, $password); $selectdb = mysql_select_db($databasename); if($connect == true){ echo ...