Create PDF documents Online with TCPDF

Many web applications output documents like invoices, contracts or just web pages in the PDF format. There are a few PHP classes which are able to create PDF documents online, one of them is TCPDF. This tutorial is about how-to use the TCPDF class while creating a simple invoice document. If you like to take [...]

PHP Mail Scripts using SMTP transport, a guide for beginners

PHP has a very simple mail function which is used very often for basic text mail messages. What if you need to attach files or if you need to send your e-mail messages via SMTP? Than it’s time to use a more advanced script. This is because the standard mail function has only limited standard [...]

Search for photos using PHP and the flickr API

This PHP tutorial will show how to create a simple PHP class to search the flickr site for some photos. To get the data we use the flickr API to run a simple search and return the results in a serialized array. We will be using the php function "file_get_contents" to receive data from flickr. [...]

Tutorial: Create a zip file from folders on the fly

For a future project I needed these days some easy to use zip or gzip class to create a zip file from files / folders inside a specified directory. A short search on Google has lead me to the Create ZIP File PHP class from Rochak Chauhan. I tested two other scripts before and must [...]