A shopping cart is an essential component of every e-commerce site. Although there are literally hundreds of shopping carts to choose from, only a few stand out. PHP is the preferred shopping cart language because it is the most popular web development language on the Internet. When combined with the MySQL database, PHP is unbeatable for cost effectiveness. (more…)

This is a simple PHP script that takes data from a MySQL table and uses it to generate a drop-down select box for an HTML form. This can be used for a list of states on a credit card or user data form, or for a category selection or something where you need to pull the selections from a MySQL table. The script uses PHP to generate the HTML that is sent to the user’s browser. (more…)

The ternary operator is a shortcut comparison operator that replaces an if-else statement in a PHP script. If you use a lot of comparison statements in your scripts, this can greatly reduce the number of lines of code. The ternary operator is really very simple to use, but it does tend to confuse newbie PHP programmers. (more…)

Most new web developers have heard of SQL injection attacks, but not very many know that it is fairly easy to prevent an attacker from gaining access to your data by filtering out the vulnerabilities using MySQL extensions found in PHP. (more…)

Banner ad rotators can range in complexity from simple systems that randomly display banner or sidebar ads, to very complex systems that track every click on each ad and display different ads based upon preset percentages for each ad display. (more…)