Tutorials

PHP/MySQLi Messaging System

Submitted by Yorkiebar on
Introduction: This tutorial will be going over a basic PHP messaging system between users. Pre-creation: First you will need a host for your PHP, either a web host or localhost is fine but you will need PHP and MySQL(i) capabilities. Also, this will not be covering creating users. Database: We are going to be storing all of the messages in a database named 'messagesTutorial', and in there a table named 'messages'. Let's create these now; Go to PHPMyAdmin and enter 'messagesTutorial' followed by pressing the 'create' button.

Connecting MySQL Database and Visual Basic 2008 Using a Class

Submitted by janobe on
In this tutorial I will teach you how to use a class in connecting the MySQL Database and Visual Basic 2008. What is a class? A Class is a group of object that defines its functionality as a set of properties and the methods that will respond to. And it is also a container of your data and code. Wherein you can limit the data that you’re accessing.

PHP File Handling: Reading File

Submitted by joken on
In this tutorial I'm going to show how to read back information from files. So before we can read information from a file we need to use a function fopen just to open the file for reading. In this lesson, we’re going to use the “hello.txt” file that we created in the writing of file lesson. To start in this lesson, we are going to create a new PHP file called "readfile.php".

Task Management System

Submitted by Yorkiebar on
Introduction: This tutorial will is going to be on how to create a task management system in PHP... it's going to be a long one! Pre-creation: First you will need a host for your PHP, either a web host or localhost is fine but you will need PHP and MySQL(i) capabilities. Database: We are going to be storing all of the created tasks in a database named 'tasksTutorial', and in there a table named 'tasks'. Let's create these now; Go to PHPMyAdmin and enter 'tasksTutorial' followed by pressing the 'create' button.

PHP Security (Form, Password Encryption, Fake Options)

Submitted by Yorkiebar on
Introduction: This tutorial will cover adding security in to your forms with PHP/HTML. Pre-creation: I am going to be using my login form as an example for this page, you can find my tutorial on a login form here; Login Form Tutorial. What security flaws are there? Whenever a user enters data in to your web forms the data gets processed as it is, and as such, needs the creator to add in security checks.

AutoComplete TextBox in a DataGridView

Submitted by janobe on
In this tutorial I will teach you how to Auto Complete a TextBox inside the DataGridView in the Visual Basic 2008 and MySQL Database. Others are used to store the list of items in the ComboBox. So, for a change, I used a TextBox because it’s easy to use and you don’t have to drop down in searching for the items that you needed. Just simply type the initial letter of the items that you’re going to search.