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A PHP array is essentially a stack of elements that can be used to denote a list, represent a collection of variables, etc. You can easily use loops to iterate over each element of an array. As PHP is a loosely typed language, all of the elements of an array …

I just racked my brain for the past hour trying to fix a bug, and learned something new in the process. I always thought that the jQuery function `.data('key')` was a wrapper for `.attr('data-key')`. It turns out that's not the case! Take the example: `<div data-key="foo">`: I can use `data('key', …

Suppose you have a php script where a user is prompted to enter a number. You then do something with that number ... you increment it, perform some other math calculation on it, search the database for records with the ID # the user passed in as a query string, …

Last night, a friend mentioned to me that one day he was trying to fetch a random 5 rows from a MySQL database. He researched online, and was eventually presented with a working solution in which he would generate five random numbers. Then, he would query the database for items …

# What is OAuth and why do I want to use it? If you want to write an application that caters to existing members of a service, and you want your application to be able to access private areas of your end-users' profiles, or modify their accounts on their behalf, …

# The nature of this tutorial ... This tutorial is designed to walk you through DaniWeb's implicit (clientside) OAuth flow. This is not designed to be an introductory tutorial to OAuth, and we will expect that you are already familiar with the nature of OAuth and/or have read our tutorial …