For uploading files, you need to install a package of PEAR called ‘HTTP_Upload’ along with the installation of PEAR and Smarty. HTTP_Upload is used for easy and secure managment of files submitted via HTML forms. This package provides an advanced system for managing uploads of files via HTML input type “file” fields. Features include: 1) … Read more
First of all, you need to install PEAR in your web server. Then you need to install Smarty. After that, you need to install a package in PEAR. It’s called ‘Pager’. Pager is a class to page an array of data. It is taken as input and it is paged according to various parameters. Pager … Read more
For using database, you need to install a package of PEAR called ‘MDB2’ along with the installation of PEAR and Smarty. MDB2 provides a common API for all support RDBMS. Connecting to database To instantiate a database object you have several methods available using MDB2. factory(): Will instantiate a new MDB2_Driver_Common instance, but will not … Read more
In this article, I will be explaining about foreach and section loop used in Smarty. I will be using these loops for creating a selection list. We can create selection list from a custom Smarty function html_options. <select name="user"> {html_options values=$id output=$names selected="4"} </select> Instead of html_options, we can also use loops to create the … Read more
In previous article, I had written about installing and using Smarty. In this article, I will be showing how you can include header and footer in Smarty. index.php assigns contents and calls the template file index.tpl <?php require_once('classes/ConnectSmarty.class.php'); // create an object of the class included above $smarty = new ConnectSmarty; // assign content $smarty->assign('name','Mukesh … Read more
In this article, I will be introducing how to use Smarty Template engine. This is a beginner tutorial. First of all, you need to download Smarty from http://www.smarty.net/download. You can follow a quickstart guide from here as well: http://www.smarty.net/quick_install. My approach of coding is a bit different than the quickstart guide present on smarty website. … Read more
Here is the PHP code to fetch the html source code of any website specified. fopen function is used to open the website URL. stream_get_contents is used to read the opened URL. The fetched code is displayed inside a textarea. $domain = 'http://example.com'; $handle = fopen($domain, 'r'); $content = stream_get_contents($handle); /** // alternative to stream_get_contents … Read more
In this article, I will be presenting simple PHP & MySQL code to add, edit, delete and view data. This kind of system is also referred to CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete). Here is a step-by-step guide on creating a CRUD system using PHP & MySQL: First of all, we will create a new MySQL … Read more
Here are code samples to generate random number and strings in PHP. Generate random numbers between 1 and 1000 $num = rand(1,1000); Using mtrand() function for better random number generation $num = mt_rand(1,1000); Generate a unique combination of numbers and letters. Works with PHP5 and higher. $unique = uniqid(); Using md5() and uniqid() function to … Read more