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7 Steps to Creating Your First Web App

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This tutorial details the EASY way to create a simple mobile app, with the bulk of the code running on your web server (we would recommend using Ubuntu with Apache or NGinx on something like a Digital Ocean Droplet). You don’t need to do the actually Android/iOS development bit yourself, but by all means you can skip our step about this and do that end yourself if you want!

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Deploy a Laravel application with Apache on Ubuntu

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Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web framework, intended for the development of web applications following the model–view–controller (MVC) architectural pattern and based on Symfony. Some of the features of Laravel are a modular packaging system with a dedicated dependency manager, different ways for accessing relational databases and utilities that aid in application deployment and maintenance.

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PHP JSON Parsing

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JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. JSON is a standard lightweight data-interchange format which is quick and easy to parse and generate (a data-interchange format is a text format which is used to interchange or exchange data between different platforms and operating systems).

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WordPress function to list site cookies

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The EU Cookie Directive (as it is popularly known) is a 2009 amendment to the E-Privacy Directive. It requires companies to obtain your consent to place and access data (like cookies) on your digital device (like your laptop). While many plugins exist to control cookies on your WordPress website, there is a shocking lack of them to simply LIST the cookies used.. so let’s write our own!

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The PHP mail() Function

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Sending email messages are very common for a web application, for example, sending welcome email when a user create an account on your website, sending newsletters to your registered users, or getting user feedback or comment through website’s contact form, and so on.

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Sending Information to a PHP Server

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A web browser communicates with the server typically using one of the two HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) methods — GET and POST. Both methods pass the information differently and have different advantages and disadvantages, as described in this tutorial.

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PHP MySQL Ajax Live Search

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You can create a simple live database search functionality utilizing the Ajax and PHP, where the search results will be displayed as you start typing some character in search input box.

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Write your own WordPress plugin to rename Posts

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Quite often when building  a WordPress website you might want to use the Post object to represent something else, for example, a business, a piece of art, a machine etc. So when the editors login, you want them to “Add New Machine”, “Edit Machine” and so on, yes?

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