Articles by TutsPlus - Code from January 2021

String concatenation is a very common and useful operation in PHP. There are many ways in which you might want to join strings together like prepending, appending or combining them at some other poin...

Are you looking to generate more leads, convert visitors into subscribers, build a vibrant email subscriber list and boost your sales? With lead generation plugins for WordPress, you can build your e...

Are you looking to display weather forecasts on your WordPress website? A visually pleasing and powerful WordPress weather widget for your website is indispensable.  WordPress weather widgets allow ...

There are a lot of times when we want to work with strings but they are padded with unwanted characters either at the beginning or the end. PHP has defined specific functions that we can use to trim ...

Do you want to take the headache out of cleaning and maintenance of your website so it can run efficiently and fast? At CodeCanyon you'll find plugins that will automate your website cleaning and mai...

Do you want to create eye-catching announcement that your visitors won't miss? Notification bars are used to immediately grab visitors attention and engage them without intruding into their user exp...

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to transform an HTML list into a wall of "sticky notes" that look and work like the following: The effect is built up gradually and works on all the up-to-date bro...

Introduction to Web Scraping Businesses need better information to target and reach wider audiences. They get this information by scraping the web for content from social media platforms, eCommerce pl...

Your website's content should be organized and beautiful. By adding a tab or accordion widget plugin to your WordPress website, you will be able to display your website's content in an elegant way. ...

Pricing tables are an important part of any website that sells some kind of services and products. You can use them to quickly list the features, similarities, or differences between two, three, or fo...

Without CSS, you have very limited choices to style your web pages. And without proper CSS inclusion inside WordPress, you can make it extremely hard for your theme's users to customize the theme's s...

Add a feature-rich and easy-to-use form plugin to your WordPress website to help you collect information that is vital to the functionality and growth of your business. These powerful form-creating...

Today, we’ll discuss how you could create thumbnail images in PHP with the help of the GD library. When you’re working on projects that are related to media, more often than not you will need to ...

Today, we’ll discuss how you could create thumbnail images in PHP with the help of the GD library. When you’re working on projects that are related to media, more often than not you will need to ...

Optional Sections for Your Marketing Emails 1. Use Opt-In Forms One of your biggest assets as an eCommerce store is your email list. Email lists provide a direct connection to your potential and exis...

Note: This tutorial was originally written 10 years ago. It has now been updated with entirely new code for generating a random string. Many of the comments in the discussion thread reference the ori...

Note: This tutorial was originally written 10 years ago. It has now been updated to use new code for generating a random string.  People write code every day to automate a variety of processes. We e...

In this article, I'll review 10 of the best PHP calendar scripts. Whether you need an appointment booking script, an event calendar script, a web calendar script, or a PHP calendar reservation system...

URLs are rarely short and sweet. They usually contain multiple keywords and are accompanied by extra parameters to help with the tracking of different campaigns or incoming traffic. These long URLs w...

Adding the date and time to the WordPress Loop seems like a simple enough task, right? Well, yes. It can be a case of coding a simple template tag and letting WordPress do the work for you. But somet...

In this tutorial, we’re going to review PDO CRUD—a form builder and database management tool. PDO CRUD helps you build forms for your database tables with just a few lines of code, making it quic...

In this article, I’m going to explain how to integrate Google login in your PHP website. We’ll use the Google OAuth API, which is an easy and powerful way to add Google login to your site. As a w...

Building a React Native app from scratch can be difficult. Setting up the initial project can be complex and annoying, especially for those who work primarily on web applications. How do you deal wit...

If you are running a business or building a brand, you are always looking for ways to increase your online reach. A streamlined, accessible and consistent social media presence is essential, whether ...

With Ionic, creating a high-performance, cross-platform mobile app is as easy as making a website. Seasoned web developers or anyone with an intimate knowledge of JavaScript can quickly get up and r...

Text messaging has become extremely widespread throughout the world -- to the point where an increasing number of web applications have integrated SMS to notify users of events, sales or coupons dire...

Text messaging has become extremely widespread throughout the world—to the point where an increasing number of web applications have integrated SMS to notify users of events, sales or coupons direc...

Imagine that you're ready to kick-start your own mobile app development business. Chances are you'd like to use the best development practices for your first app, and also code it as quickly as possi...

Are you looking for an automated booking or reservation plugin that saves you time as well as your customer's time? Are you tired of losing business to your competitors? Are you looking for a way to ...

In this tutorial we will be creating a simple web-based chat application with PHP and jQuery. This sort of utility would be perfect for a live support system for your website. Otherwise, learn how to...

In this short tutorial, we look at the WordPress body class and how we can manipulate it using core API calls. Specifically, we cover adding body classes, removing body classes, conditionally adding ...

One of the most common user interface elements for presenting your data is a table. It turns out that there are many aspects to control when working with tables, such as: defining columns and header...

One of the most common user interface elements for presenting your data is a table. It turns out that there are many aspects to control when working with tables, such as: defining columns and header...

 Having a professional and competent customer support system helps your website stand out from your competition and grab the attention of your potential customers. But building the best customer sup...

Having a professional and competent customer support system helps your website stand out from your competition and grab the attention of your potential customers. But building the best customer suppo...

The demand for content on the web is stratospheric. You don't have to produce your own content, but you do need to supply content that's reliable.  To offer relevant, up-to-date content, you need...