PHP

Introduction: This tutorial is on how to use an API in PHP. What Is An API? An API is an Application Programming Interface and is used as a middle stepping stone for external applications to use the functions of an internal application. An example of this would be the Skype API. The Skype API allows external applications on the users computer to access their Skype account via the Skype4ComLib API. REST API: There are a few different types of APIs, we'll be using an example REST in this tutorial.

Introduction: This is a second part to my previous tutorial - 'Creating an Email Subscription List in PHP/MySQLi', found here; http://www.sourcecodester.com/tutorials/php/7813/email-subscription-list-phphtml.html Mail Function: Before we can begin with our actual email subscription email sending script, we need to know exactly how we are going to be sending our emails. Luckily enough, there is a built in function in to PHP called 'mail', guess what it does...

Introduction: This tutorial is on how to create a simple email subscription service - part 1 - allowing the user to enter their email address. HTML: Before we can process any information the user enters and then add it to our database of email subscription addresses, we need to take the information from the user - for this we need a simple HTML form.

Introduction: This tutorial is on how to perform file I/O in PHP. I/O? I/O stands for Input/Output, and means writing/reading to/from files on the system. PHP Tags: First we need three things; The file you want to write the contents to - this can be pre-existing, or not. The contenst to write to the file. The default PHP tags, ready to write our PHP code. Here are the PHP tags, in which we will write our code...