PHP Tutorial

What is PHP? PHP is most popular language for web development. In this PHP Tutorial, you will learn about PHP Uses, Features and Future Scope.

PHP programming, involve different terms, tools and related technologies for web development. Learn briefly about common PHP Terminology.

Learn PHP Installation Step by Step using XAMPP (PHP – MySQL – Apache) in Windows. Click for PHP Installation tutorial for beginners

Learn PHP Syntax with an example – Create your first PHP basic program and Learn how to Run first PHP Script – Free Tutorials available at Tutorials Class

PHP Comments Tutorial – PHP Comment is simply description about the PHP script or code. Learn Single Line & Multiple Line Comments syntax with example

PHP Variables store a value that can change during the program execution. Learn more about PHP Variables & Variable Rules with example in this tutorial.

PHP Operators are used to performing operations on variables and values. Learn more about PHP Operators with Examples. Find programs & assignments related to PHP Operators.

PHP Data types is a set of values and the allowable operations on those values. PHP supports eight primitive types. Learn about different PHP data types with examples.

PHP decision statements are used to make a decision, based on some conditions. Learn PHP IF ELSE & Switch Statements with examples

PHP Loops are used to execute the same block of code again and again until a certain condition is met. Learn more about While, Do-While, For and Foreach Loops in PHP with examples

A function is a block of code that does one job, and you can use it again and again by calling its name. Functions make your code shorter, cleaner and easy to…

A constant is a name that holds a value, like a variable, but the value can not be changed after it is set. Constants are useful for fixed values like the site…

Errors are normal when you write code, even for experienced developers. What matters is to understand the message, fix the problem, and to handle errors in a safe way on a live…

PHP Array stores one or more similar type of values in a single value. Learn about Numeric, Associative and Multidimensional arrays with an example

PHP has more than 70 built-in functions to work with arrays. In this chapter you will learn the ones that you will use most, with short examples. If you are new to…

A string is a series of characters, like “Hello PHP”. Working with text is one of the most common jobs in web development, so PHP gives many functions to handle strings. Create…

You have learned the basics of PHP. Now it is time for the advanced concepts. These are the things you need to build real websites: handling forms, working with files, remembering users,…

Forms are the main way to get data from the visitors of your website: a login, a contact form, a registration, a search box. PHP reads the data of a form using…

Learn PHP File Upload with example. In this tutorial, we will upload files to server using HTML Form & PHP $_FILES variable & move_uploaded_file() function.

PHP can create, read, write and delete files on the server. This is useful for logs, uploaded files, text data and CSV files. In this chapter you will learn the two ways…

Almost every website sends emails: a contact form message, a welcome email or a password reset link. PHP has a built-in mail() function to send an email directly from your script. This…

Real websites repeat many parts on every page, like the header, the menu and the footer. Instead of copying the same code in every file, you write it once in a separate…

Dates and times are used in almost every website: show the current date, calculate an age, set an offer end date, or save when a post was created. PHP has simple functions…

A cookie is a small piece of data that your website stores in the browser of the visitor. The browser sends it back to your server with every request. Cookies are used…

HTTP is stateless: the server does not remember you from one page to the next. A session solves this problem. It stores data about a user on the server, like the user…

OOP (Object Oriented Programming) is a way of writing code where you organize it into objects. An object has data (called properties) and actions (called methods), just like things in real life….

A class is a blueprint for creating objects. It defines the properties (variables) and methods (functions) that its objects will have. If you are new to OOP, first read PHP OOP Introduction….

An object is a real thing created from a class. A class alone does nothing, you need to create an object of the class to use it. You create an object with…

PHP and MySQL are used together to build most of the dynamic websites on the internet. PHP is the language that runs on the server, and MySQL is the database where the…

Before you connect PHP with a database, you should know what a database is and how MySQL stores the data. This chapter explains the basics in simple words. What is MySQL? MySQL…

Before PHP can read or save data, it must make a connection with the MySQL server. In this chapter you will learn how to connect using the MySQLi extension (MySQL Improved). It…

A database is a container for your tables. Before you save any data, you need a database. The MySQL command to create a new database is CREATE DATABASE. In this chapter we…

Data in a MySQL database is stored in tables. A table has a unique name, and it is made of columns (fields) and rows (records). In this chapter we create the users…

The INSERT INTO statement adds new records (rows) to a table. In this chapter we add data to the users table that we created in the previous chapter. Syntax Insert one record…

The SELECT statement reads data from a table. In PHP you run the query with mysqli_query(), and then read the rows one by one from the result. Syntax Write only the columns…

The MySQL UPDATE statement changes the existing records of a table. You can change one or more columns and choose which rows to update with a condition. Syntax Update a record using…

The DELETE statement removes records from a table. You choose which rows to remove with the WHERE clause. Syntax Delete a record using PHP Output: mysqli_affected_rows() shows how many rows were removed….

A prepared statement sends the SQL query and the data to MySQL separately. First you send a query with placeholders (?), then you send the values. MySQL treats these values only as…

The MySQLi extension of PHP can be used in two styles: procedural and object oriented. Both do the same work, only the syntax is different. In the procedural style you call functions…

PHP is easy to learn, and that is why many beginners start with it. But the same easy way also makes it simple to write insecure code. A small mistake in a…

The match expression was added in PHP 8.0. It compares one value with many options, and returns the result of the first option that matches. Many developers see it as a shorter…