Tutorial: How to Find a Percentage Using PHP A quick and easy way to find percentages in php

Before I get started, I wanted to say that this is just one way to do it. It’s the way I do it but there are definitely other equally effective ways of doing it. With that said, let’s get started.

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Tutorial: Using Concatenation in PHP Useful for outputting logs and other stuff

Sometimes, you’ll find yourself having a lot of variables that you need to mix together. Concatenation is very handy for mixing your variables into a coherent output. A simple example of how to do concatenation: // assign the values for

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Tutorial: Simple, Free Coin Counting Practice PHP Script PHP Tutorial

The Birth of a Coin Counting PHP Script One of my kiddos, whom we’ll call ‘D’, needed to brush up on counting coins. Without a lot of coins in the house to practice with and wanting something a little more

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Tutorial: How to Write a Basal Metabolic Rate & Caloric Budget Calculator PHP Script PHP Tutorial

A New Day, A New Script Hot on the heels of writing the Simple BMI Calculator PHP script (and its tutorial), I decided that I could really use a BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) Calculator script that also calculates and informs

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Tutorial: How to Write a BMI Calculator PHP Script PHP Tutorial

You can go online and find a ton of BMI calculators all over the Internet. Their formulas seem to vary so I’m never entirely sure which one to follow (as I don’t know what formula they’re using and how accurate

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Simple PHP Script That Checks User’s Age and Restricts or Grants Access to Restricted Content A PHP tutorial/download

Building on a script covered in a recent tutorial, Simple PHP Script That Accurately Determines User’s Age (in Years), I’ve updated the second variation of the script to not only determine the user’s age but to also determine whether the

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Tutorial: How to Write a Simple Flat-File Based Shoutbox Script in PHP (mostly) PHP Tutorial

As I continue to improve my coding skills, I’ve really been wanting to focus on coding in PHP itself with less MySQL. To that end, I wanted to attempt a flat-file based shoutbox script written almost completely in PHP. Pictured

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How to Code a Simple PHP Voting System PHP/MySQL tutorial

Background A few years ago, I wanted to code a very simple PHP voting system. I never quite got around to doing it so I resolved to work on that today. This tutorial is the result of that effort. 🙂

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How to Display a WordPress Post With Posts From a Particular Category Using PHP and a Plugin WordPress Tutorial

In the course of developing this blog, I run into a lot of challenges. I’m pretty picky, so that often means figuring out how to produce certain results. Henceforth, lots of googling, lots of potential solutions, and testing and tweaking

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How to limit user actions based on the last time they used a site feature PHP/Mysql Tutorial

I put together a gamified learning website for my kids to help them practice math and English concepts. As a bonus way to earn currency on the site, I added a feature that let them visit a ‘treasure parlor’ where

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