... page dedicated to help choosing between mysql, mysqli and PDO at http://php.net/manual/en/mysqlinfo.api.choosing.php and http://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqlinfo.library.choosing.php The PHP team recommends mysqli or PDO_MySQL for new development: It is recommended to use either the mysqli or...

Which one of these is the best PDF-API for PHP? 9 Answers 9 ...

...rns a jSON object, and I need to have it decoded and put into variables in PHP. 6 Answers ...

... stdClass is PHP's generic empty class, kind of like Object in Java or object in Python (Edit: but not actually used as universal base class; thanks @Ciaran for pointing this out). It is useful for anonymous objects, dynamic properties, ...

... From PHP: Instruction Separation The closing tag of a PHP block at the end of a file is optional, and in some cases omitting it is helpful when using include() or require(), so unwanted whitespace will not occur at the end of ...

... PHP 7 standard library provides the random_bytes($length) function that generate cryptographically secure pseudo-random bytes. Example: $bytes = random_bytes(20); var_dump(bin2hex($bytes)); The above example will output some...

I'm wondering if/how you can add custom headers to a cURL HTTP request in PHP. I'm trying to emulate how iTunes grabs artwork and it uses these non-standard headers: ...

... It's returning a reference, as mentioned already. In PHP 4, objects were assigned by value, just like any other value. This is highly unintuitive and contrary to how most other languages works. To get around the problem, references were used for variables that pointed to obje...

... I came across this issue when php was outputting a plain text warning above the gzipped content. – Mike Causer Dec 12 '13 at 15:03 ...

I use the following PHP script as index for my website. 12 Answers 12 ...