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PHP Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

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Overview

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Become a better PHP programmer, one tutorial at a time. Broaden your understanding of what PHP can do and become a more productive developer, with these tips.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
1. 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

Taught by

David Powers

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