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My Tutorials
How to debug PHP (without a debugger)
In this tutorial you will learn how to debug your PHP scripts without a debugger. Error reporting, variable and function debugging, and logging.
PHP Password Hashing tutorial
In this tutorial I show you how to perform PHP password encryption. You will learn how to use password_hash() and password_verify(), with step-by-step examples.
PHP JSON complete tutorial (with examples)
This is the definitive PHP JSON tutorial. Learn how to encode and decode JSON objects, set the JSON content-type, JSON validation and more. Examples included.