PHP Tutorial: Looping Through & Displaying A MySQLi Result Set
Recently I’ve seen a lot of people using while loops to retrieve a single record. You only need to loop through your result set when you expect to get more than one row of...
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PHP Tutorial: Connecting to a MySQLi Database
So, here’s the low down on how to setup a connection to a MySQL database using MySQLi and PHP. This will also make sure your login information is protected. First, you’ll need a database,...
PHP Tutorial: Dynamically Cache and Combine All CSS Files
Does your website use a lot of CSS files? If so did you know you can increase your website’s speed by caching and combining all of your CSS files into a single file? Why...
PHP Tutorial: Easy SQL Injection Prevention
I’ve noticed on several client games I’ve worked on recently that instead of creating a global cleaning function to prevent SQL injections they’re wrapping mysql_real_escape_string() calls around everything. Sure, putting this function around any...
PHP Tutorial: Free OOP Hangman Game (database required)
In this tutorial we’ll be modifying the original PHP hangman game so instead of reading from a text file it reads from the database. We’ll also be adding a new word difficulty option. This...
PHP Tutorial: 2 Player Tic-Tac-Toe Game (no database required)
In the first part of my games tutorial series we created a PHP Hangman game and then in the second installment we converted Hangman to use AJAX. Now it’s time to follow the same...
PHP Tutorial: Free OOP Hangman Game (no database required)
At this year’s Siminar I’m presenting a live webinar on “Learning OOP” to many young female gamers. Part of that presentation includes a OOP hangman game they can easily install and incorporate on their...
PHP Tutorial: Learning OOP – Class Basics & Extending Classes
What Is OOP? Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is an programming style that uses classes with attributes and methods to create objects. OOP can be used anywhere, however it’s most practical when working with relational...
PHP Tutorial: Put MySQL ENUM values into drop down select box
If you have an ENUM field in your table schema then you don’t want to go through the hassle of re-writing out all of the different ENUM values when you do an online form...
PHP Tutorial: Looping Through & Displaying A MySQL Result Set
Recently I’ve seen a lot of people using while loops to retrieve a single record. You only need to loop through your result set when you expect to get more than one row of...
