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Last Updated on: September 15, 2022 There are some instances where you want to redirect the user away from the current page. For example, the user needs to be logged in, so you want them redirected to the login page. In PHP, this can be done like so: If you employ this method, remember that…

Last Updated on: March 13, 2023 When you are developing or supporting a website, it does not always work perfectly. Sometimes a visitor will abort a script that is running, and when that happens, you want to try and avoid that causing a client disconnect. The ignore_user_abort() function determines whether the remote client can abort…

Last Updated on: December 21, 2022 One of the cool and overlooked features of PHP is the presence of “magic constants”. These predefined constants provide helpful information about the current environment or context in which a script runs. Here are the nine magic constants currently available in PHP: These magic constants can be handy in…

Last Updated on: February 25, 2023 It is common now for developers to use email as a means of communicating with users from the website. There are many reasons that you might want to do this, including: Before you start to configure your PHP scripts to send emails, you will first need to know some…

Last Updated on: October 23, 2022 This shorthand syntax is a nice and simple way to increase or decrease an integer variable by 1: And for subtracting: You may know this already, but there is a bit more to these operators when working with strings that you might not be aware of: It gets even…

Last Updated on: February 11, 2023 In most applications, there is a need for set values that do not change during the execution of a script. Examples of these values are: A bad way to handle these values is to “hard code” them. This is the process of inserting the values in your code as…