PHP Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
5h 15mIntermediate2018-09-24
Authors
David Powers
Developing websites since 1994
Course details
Become a better PHP programmer, one tutorial at a time. The series brings you tips, tricks, and techniques to build your PHP skills. David Powers offers a new course to broaden your understanding of what PHP can do and to help you become a more productive developer. To follow along, you should have a thorough understanding of PHP basics, but if you're still a beginner, you can watch this series for a dose of inspiration, until you're ready to implement the techniques in your own projects.
Skills covered
MySQLPHPProgramming LanguagesOpen SourceSoftware Development
Concepts
Introduction
- Welcome
Weekly Episodes
- Round numbers to a specific multiple
- Array dereferencing
- Variable functions
- Build nested unordered lists automatically
- Display a repeating value only once
- Batch convert images to data URIs
- Multiple string replacement and SVGs
- Prevent cross-site script attacks in forms
- Changes to calculations with strings
- Unpacking arrays in PHP 7.1
- User authentication with password hashing
- Set a future date
- Block access to expired member
- Extract complete sentences from start of text
- Prevent email header injection attacks
- Variable variables
- Select files for archiving
- Set a time limit on a session
- Custom sort an array with the spaceship operator
- Understanding the splat operator
- Converting new lines to real paragraphs
- Introducing PHP generators
- Dynamically editing a CSV file
- Finding all links in a webpage
- Creating a download link
- Debugging PDO prepared statements
- Time is running out for PHP 5
- Extract values with a format string
- Generate harmonious color tones
- Getting all possible permutations of an array
- Merging arrays
- Strip accents from text
- Export associative arrays from a CSV
- Export spreadsheet data to a multi-table database
- Validate email address with accented characters
- Generating random numbers and strings
- Shorthand conditional expressions
- Modifying each element in an array
- Smart quotes and apostrophes
- Shortest distance between two locations