PHPMailer is a popular open source, email-sending library used by applications like WordPress, Drupal, SugarCRM, Joomla and others. This tutorial will show you how to install PHPMailer, set up SMTP and send email in PHP using PHPMailer.
In this tutorial, I’ll show you eight different ways to add to, remove from and insert elements to/from an array in PHP. PHP array functions used include: array(), array_push(), array_unshift(), array_pop(), array_shift(), array_slice(), count(), array_diff() and array_splice().
Object-oriented programming is MORE (much more) than knowing how to write a class. It’s about how you build your applications. I call it an “approach”… but it’s an approach *to application-building*.
Inheritance in PHP tutorial with example code.
The guts of a secure password reset feature for your login script… using PHP
First: should you use sessions or cookies? That’s the first big question I see. In most cases, you should use sessions. There are some exceptions, but it’s usually very specific cases and at the far end of “complex” if/when you do it. Why? Session data is stored on the server and therefore is, in general, safer to work with. Whereas, cookies are stored in the browser… And, it’s the Wild West out there, partna! Okay, that outta the way… let’s get into how to do this. I just went through all this in recording my latest course, How to Create
Use filter_input(), filter_var() and these two other PHP functions to add another layer of security to your applications
MySQLi makes grabbing the last inserted row easy. After running your insert query, you can do this: $id = $mysqli->insert_id; Then, you can query for that row like this: $result = $mysqli->query(“SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE ID = {$id}”); And, fetch the result as an object: $user = $result->fetch_object(); From there it’s a simple echo to output it to your page: echo $user->user_name; (Although, you’ll want to use htmlspecialchars or htmlentities to escape the output and prevent XSS attacks. But, we’ll save that for another day.) Simple. Anyway, in the newly released Module 3 of PHP 101, I show you
With MySQLi, it looks like this: $mysqli = new mysqli($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass, $db_name); But, PDO is a bit different because it can interact 12 different types of databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, Cubrid and several others. So, when using it you have to specify which driver you want to use. Like this: $conn = new PDO(“mysql:host={$db_host};dbname={$db_name}”, $db_user, $db_pass); Notice the “mysql:host=” bit. For different drivers, you just change out the “mysql” part. So, PostgreSQL would be: $conn = new PDO(“pgsql:host={$db_host};dbname={$db_name}”, $db_user, $db_pass); For Oracle, it’d be: $conn = new PDO(“oci:host={$db_host};dbname={$db_name}”, $db_user, $db_pass); And, so on. Nice thing is… The code
Here’s one I don’t see talked about much: $name = filter_input(INPUT_POST, ‘name’, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); What this does is grab the “name” element from your POST array and run it through the the filter: FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING… which removes all HTML tags from the string (since we know a person’s name doesn’t have HTML in it). It’s a really simple way of quickly filtering your data. Here’s another: if ( ! $email = filter_input( INPUT_POST, ’email’, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL ) ) { die(‘Invalid email’); } This one validates the submitted email address. And, returns false if it’s invalid. Again, a very simple way of quickly validating
Bit of a hot topic lately in my inbox. Here’s what an old, vulnerable query might look like: $expected_data = 1; $query = “SELECT * FROM users where id=$expected_data”; $result = $mysqli->query($query); The problem here is we’re injecting user-submitted data directly into our SQL statement without any sort of escaping or validation. So, a hacker could enter something like this in our form: 1; DROP TABLE users; Changing our full query to: SELECT * FROM users where id=1; DROP TABLE users; Which, as you can probably see, will execute the SELECT statement but then drop our users table. No bueno.
I’m going to quickly show you the exact code to send a tweet using the Twitter API. Then, how to learn to build a full-fledged Twitter app. Let’s dig in. Before you start, you need three things: A developer account on Twitter. (dev.twitter.com) A Twitter app for the API keys and access tokens (apps.twitter.com) The Twitter OAuth PHP class (twitteroauth.com) Download the class to your working folder. Then, create a file called index.php (or whatever you want) and include the Twitter OAuth class like so: require “twitteroauth/autoload.php”; use Abraham\TwitterOAuth\TwitterOAuth; Next, we need to connect to the API: $connection = new
A simple PHP cURL tutorial and example. Learn how to use curl_init, curl_setopt, and curl_execute. Also learn how to POST data to a remote URL using cURL. Ready to learn even more PHP? Take my free Beginner’s Guide to PHP video series at http://johnmorrisonline.com/learnphp Get this source code along with 1000s of other lines of code (including for a CMS, Social Network and more) as a supporting listener of the show at http://johnmorrisonline.com/patreon P.S. If you liked the show, give it a like and share with the communities and people you think will benefit. And, you can always find all my
PHP 7’s null coalescing operator is handy shortcut along the lines of the ternary operator. Here’s what it is, how to use it and why: Ready to learn even more PHP? Take my free Beginner’s Guide to PHP video series at http://johnmorrisonline.com/learnphp Get this source code along with 1000s of other lines of code (including for a CMS, Social Network and more) as a supporting listener of the show at http://johnmorrisonline.com/patreon P.S. If you liked the show, give it a like and share with the communities and people you think will benefit. And, you can always find all my tutorials, source
Subscribe So You Never Miss An Episode [saf] May the force be with you… 😉 Unless you’ve been under a rock (which is totally cool if so) you know PHP 7 has been out for a bit now. I finally took some time the other day to fire it up on one of my dev servers and see what all the fuss is about. Online, I’d kept hearing about this “spaceship” operator. This thing’s kind of cool actually. Let me show you. So, here’s a common bit of code you might see pre-PHP7: This is a sorting routine. usort() lets
INSPINIA has sold 29,598 units at $18 a piece. That’s $532,764. SmartAdmin sold 20,136 units at $12 a piece. That’s $241,632. Unify… $321,828. That’s just three of over 800 Bootstrap templates on WrapBootstrap. And that’s just one Bootstrap marketplace. Obviously, people want these things. But, they all have a major problem. One that makes it hard for clients to actually implement on their site, makes updates horrifying and ensures after-launch tweaks are a nightmare. I’ll show you how to fix that problem and turn these basic template into advanced “site-builders” using a little PHP magic. You think maybe you could make
In 2011, online survey giant, SurveyMonkey, acquired Wufoo Forms for 35 million. SurveyMonkey itself does 113 million a year in revenue. And, it’s valued at nearly 1.35 billion. Both of these services serve a simple purpose: creating online forms. And, they’re not the only players in the market. How much of that market would you need to siphon off to make more money than you probably ever imagined? It’s what I tell developers all the time. Focus on one thing. Get really good at it. Cash in on that one skill until it runs dry. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. So, would
I remember this annoying error like it was yesterday. It always baffled me a bit when I first started learning PHP (I know… N00B!): Fatal error: call to a member function fetch_assoc() on a non-object. It was always the line number that tripped me up. Anyhoo, here’s what’s really going on and how to kill this error dead once and for all: And, if you’d give me a likey-like I’d sure appreciate it! And like I said the source code is available on Patreon for the smart folks who support the show. (You know you wanna join them.) P.S. If you liked the show,
When you verify an email address, there’s really three things you want to do: Don’t submit the form unless the email address is valid Give hints about what’s wrong and how to fix it Make sure malicious data doesn’t get into your database Well, here’s a handy little snippet that does all three using HTML, jQuery and PHP. Feel free to use this how you need in your projects. And, if you want it you can get the source code as a supporting listener on Patreon. Anyway, here’s the video… see what you think: And, if you’d give ol’ JMO a like I’d
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