Daily Web Tuts

Checking to see if a substring exists within a string using strpos You can use strpos in order to check if one string (the substring) exists in another string. An example of this can be seen below: In the example above, the output would be 3, as this is the starting position of the substr [...]

The more and more I use the internet, the more and more I see the use of jQuery to fade in content. So, it goes without saying that I decided to create a short and sweet tutorial to teach you how to use jQuery yourself to fade in content. Since this is my first tutorial [...]

You’re now up to the stage where you’ve learnt how to assign values and strings to variables. In this post you’ll be learning to use various PHP functions teaching you how to manipulate and/or use PHP to a greater level. A quick note about PHP strings There is no maximum length to a PHP string [...]

I’m currently in the process of re-writing some of my PHP scripts in order to move away from “old” ways to connect to databases, to a newer method – PDO (PHP Data Objects). Using the following code, I received the message “Fatal error: Class ‘PDO’ not found…” The following are likely reasons for you receiving [...]

Now that you’ve learnt how to create variables in PHP and then output them, you’re probably wondering how you can use PHP alongside HTML? Just how does it work? It’s really simple, and I’m going to show you how to take a very basic HTML script like the one below which displays the heading “Hello [...]

If you stumbled upon this page and have no knowledge of PHP then you’re better off starting here. Otherwise, continue! PHP Variables What is a variable? Variables are placeholders for storing content. You can contain anything from numbers to a text strings. All PHP variables start with a $, and there are some basic rules [...]

My main reason for creating dailywebtuts.com is to teach others how to develop their own websites and web-based applications, and since I develop using PHP on a daily basis, I’ve decided to write a series of posts in order to teach PHP from scratch. Recommended Prerequisites to Learning PHP Before you learn PHP it’s recommended [...]

When running a WordPress blog you may find it necessary to create a page showing posts from a specific author, category, date range, or other criteria. Firstly, you need to create a template file for the page of posts. To do so, the easiest way to do this is to take a copy of the following [...]

When it comes to browsing the internet, or using a certain web browser for web development, does it really matter? Yes, it does! When developing websites, why would you want to be thwarted by a slow and unresponsive browser which doesn’t easily allow you to develop? The answer is that you wouldn’t want to be. [...]

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