PHP Tutorial

Introduction:

This tutorial is the final part in my ticket system via PHP tutorial. This part will be covering processing the ticket.

Ticket Information:

We are already sending the email to the entered 'forgot password' reset form containing the ticket ID. This ticket ID links to the customer account through the column value of 'User'. It should also be noted that the email address only receives an email with the ticket number, and not a URL.

Introduction:

This tutorial is the fourth part in my series of how to create a PHP based ticket system. This part will be covering inserting the generated ticket/random string in to the 'tickets' table within your database.

Event:

We only want to insert a new ticket when a certain event occurs, this event will be when the 'Forgotten Password' link or button is clicked/selected.

Introduction:

This tutorial is the third part on how to create a ticket system in PHP.

PHP Record Fetching Functions Today world wide web is dominated by php applications. Over 250M sites use php on the web and php 5 used 98% sites who use php. Most of php based application use mysql database server to store application related data. Nowadays software application contained millions of records because of that data retrieval is getting complex. In this tutorial I am going to explain mysql result manipulation functions and their usage.

Introduction:

This tutorial is a continuation from my previous tutorial in which I covered the database design and HTML password reset form scripting for this password reset ticket system.

Part Two - Fake Data:

Before we can even think of making a password reset ticket system, we need to create a fake user to which we can reset their password.

Introduction:

This tutorial will be on how to use an API which returns a JSON format of information in PHP.

API? JSON?

An API stands for an Application Program Interface and is used by external applications to connect with prebuilt libraries or sources of information via the API making the connection between the two. JSON is a form of information formatting, and stands for JavaScript Object Notation.

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...