Tutorials by jordan82

Create a stat signature using GD and PHP.

In this tutorial I'll introduce you to using PDO and show examples of its use. The tutorial assumes you already have a database and tables setup (I'll be using MySQL and SQLite) for testing.

SimpleXML is an extension to PHP added in version 5 that turns an XML document into an object making it easy for you to iterate through. The extension solves many of the complexities surrounding XML parsing with PHP prior to version five.

SQL provides a lot of functions for manipulating dates in a database. You can store values in a date field or a datetime field. If you store the dates as unix_timestamps you can get a lot more flexibility with dates. In fact, this is usually what is done when you are using PHP with the database.

PHP variables start with a dollar sign. The first character must be a letter. Other than that, you can use any letter or number. The variable name can be as long and as short as you want.

A tutorial on how to store images in XML files, for transfer and extraction.

A tutorial on how to store images in XML files, for transfer and extraction.

A tutorial on how to accomplish array sorting with PHP. PHP provides a large variety of functions for sorting arrays.

A Guide to creating a clock in/out system in PHP using MySQL

When you want to get results from a database you issue a select query. With this query you can limit the results based on certain criteria, sort it, and subsort it. You can do a lot with this including selecting data from multiple tables.