Database accessibility is a key part of Web-based applications and dynamically generated Web pages, so PHP's creators have made the language particularly effective in this area. In fact, even ...

How to Use Index.Php Instead of Index.Html. The PHP engine lets you create dynamic Web pages. PHP also reads HTML, so you can save an HTML file with a PHP extension and upload the new file to your ...

How to Use PHP for MySQL to XML. An XML file displays rows and columns you retrieve from a MySQL database. Using PHP, you can export data from a database table to a Web form. PHP transforms the ...

If you're building NGINX sites, you'll probably need PHP-FPM support enabled. Jack Wallen shows you how.

Hestia is a web-based GUI for configuring NGINX, Apache, and PHP-FPM. Jack Wallen shows you how to get this up and running on Ubuntu Server 20.04.

$ _POST or $ _GET are two special PHP functions that are used to get variables from a user-filled form. While using these functions, a user may encounter an error, stating that there is an undefined ...

Here is a list of common special characters used in PHP. If you want to use these characters without triggering a function or casuing a syntax error, they need to be escaped.