While taking an E-mail address as user input, it’s essential to validate it properly otherwise it can affect application functionality. In this article, we will validate the Email address in PHP with regular expressions and also with the FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL function. You can implement those methods in other PHP-based frameworks like Laravel or CI. Here, we
Sometimes working with PHP we need to convert objects into arrays for implement array functions or reduce looping from our code. Here, we will see two methods to convert objects into associative arrays. Before starting let’s understand what is an object in PHP. An object is an instance of a class that has specific memory
JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. JSON is an open standard data format used to transfer data quickly and easily. In PHP, there is an in-built function to handle JSON operations like encode and decode. Objects or arrays can easily be parsed into JSON using those functions. Then we can transfer JSON sting over HTTP/HTTPS
Character Separated Values(CSV) or Comma Separated Values is a file type containing plain text content with a comma or a character as separators. PHP provides built-in functionality to read CSV files. Here, we will learn to use CSV data in our application using multiple methods. The first method will read data from a file while
The best part of Laravel is it has a variety of open-source plugins available. One of them is Carbon. Carbon is a date-time package for Laravel or any other PHP-based framework. In this blog, we will see some practical examples to add or remove years from carbon date objects. Carbon provides a function for adding
Nowadays, File upload and download functionality is almost mandatory. PHP provides simple and easy ways to upload and download files. You can store these files in a public folder or local storage. In this tutorial, we will show you how you can upload files of various formats like .zip, .pdf, .docx, and .ppt, as well
As you know validation is an essential part of web applications and jQuery validate provides an easy implementation of it. Normally jQuery validation is client-side validation but you can validate fields using the remote rule on your server. While creating a user or getting user input for some data that needs to be validated against
In this example, we will generate a random string using PHP. We will use multiple methods to create random strings in PHP. There are three different functions for generating random numbers in PHP which accept min and max values and generate a random number from that range. PHP doesn’t have any in-built functions to generate
For any developer knowing how to generate dynamic QR codes and allow users to download them as image files is an important task. QR codes are playing an important role in many industries like online payments, eCommerce, or ticket booking. Nowadays sharing QR codes on visiting cards is also very common. The QR code stores
While working with file download functionality with the database, we commonly face an error that says file not found. So if we add functionality to check file exists or not before the actual searching file then we can provide a better user experience. PHP provides many built-in functions to handle file operations easily. Some of
