Introduction to Doctrine Hydrators Doctrine Hydrators allows you to convert the database record result returned from the query into a formatted object graph or an array. The results can be easily passed to your view files directly when you convert into an array or objects. Each hydrating method has different format for returning values and [...]

Uploading and Extracting Zip Files with Codeigniter and PHP Ziparchive Codeigniter file upload library can be used in web applications which requires user to upload files to the web server. Codeigniter provides complete list of functionalities regarding file uploading. Sometimes we may need to upload multiple files to the server. So if the application provides [...]

What is the need for Comments Reading Script We use comments in source files identify the meaning of the process at a later stage in the projects. Code comments are important since change requirements can occur after months and maybe years after releasing project. So its important to have them in order to refresh and [...]

Why Do We Need to Clear Database Table Data In production environment we test the web applications by inserting test data to the database tables. Once all the testing is completed we need to install our web application on the real server environment. So we have to remove all test data and install a fresh [...]

Connecting to Email Servers with PHP imap_open Imap library provided by php can be used to connect to your email accounts and handle functions like email reading,composing,forwarding..etc. You will have to install the imap library depending on your php installation. imap_open function is used to connect to email servers. It will open a imap connection [...]

How To Get Last Visited Page Url We can use php to get the last visited page url for a current web page. Server global variables in php provides this functionality. Any time we can get the url of the web site that requested the current page. This is known as referring site url. When [...]

What are Key-Value pairs ? Key-Value pairs are a common data handling method used in web development. Its easy to keep and manipulate the data in Key-value pairs when we do programming. When we pass the data to another page,function or external source we can associate the values we want to pass with a key. [...]