So, our last post on creating login admin and logout seems to be pretty backdated. We decided to come up with a new post under the same topic. So, to start with, let us see what you will be able to do after following this tutorial: Create a MySQL database for managing admin users. Use SHA1 encryption method to store the password in database. Also insert data into it. Create your own login/logout system in PHP using Cookie and Session along...

As we know, HTTP POST and HTTP GET are two great means of passing user data to servers. Previously, we have discussed about how to create different pages via a single script using URL variables, ie using GET method. Now, there can be occasions where, you need to have HTTP POST forms to get data from users. The question is, can you use GET and POST method together to create different dynamic pages from a single script? The answer is...

The idea of this post originated from the topic, using PHP GET and POST method simultaneously via a single form. While writing about the tutorial, I felt that, one need to know the basics of HTML forms and PHP suparglobal POST and GET variables to understand how HTTP interaction takes place in between user and the Server. The most useful feature of any server side scripting language is the interactive capability of receiving and processing...

No doubt PHP is a powerful interpreter… It has everything a programmer need to make his program. Today we are going to talk about a little less used but very powerful language construct eval(). Basically it evaluates some string passed through it as PHP code. It may seem easy, but there are a few thing one need to know before using this construct. [Note, this is not a function]. Sometime the usage gets so much confusing which often...

Just a few days back, we were having some discussion at DigitalPoints forum about sharing and streaming download links via PHP. The problem was that if we have say a doc file and if we link that file directly then some browser may attempt to download it, or some will just show it! So, what we will learn today is how to stream a file using PHP, instead of direct linking and force the browser to download it with a custom name defined by us!...

You should have many links like http://www.domain.com/index.php?page=home OR http://www.domain.com/index.php?page=about where different pages are shown from a single script. [In this case index.php is the script]. Now the question is how to make such kind of system… Basically, what we can do is, use PHP GET method to pass variable URL to the server and response different pages accordingly. Have a look at the online demo… If, you think...