PHP & MySQL Tutorials

PHP and MySQL tutorials covering web applications, database queries, file handling, and server-side scripting fundamentals.

About These PHP & MySQL Tutorials

PHP powers roughly 77% of all websites with a known server-side language, including WordPress, Laravel, and Drupal. Combined with MySQL, it forms the most widely deployed web application stack in the world. These tutorials cover the PHP and MySQL skills that working developers encounter most frequently — from handling HTTP requests and writing SQL queries to building complete interactive features.

The fundamentals section covers GET/POST handling, conditionals, switch-case, and OOP patterns that every PHP developer needs. The MySQL tutorials focus on practical query patterns like WHERE with LIKE that appear in search, filtering, and reporting features. The application tutorials go further, showing how to build complete features including a real-time chat system with AJAX long-polling, a star rating widget with anti-fraud protection, a CKEditor file upload backend, and a full-text search engine.

Each tutorial provides production-ready code with security considerations built in — input validation, prepared statements for SQL injection prevention, and XSS protection. The DomPDF tutorial covers server-side PDF generation, and the BBCode converter shows how to safely parse user-generated markup. Whether you are building a new PHP application or maintaining an existing one, these guides address the most common tasks with tested, secure solutions.