I continue to share some handy utility functions that are good to always have within reach. This time, my focus is on date-related functions. The fir...

Don’t even ask whether you can back up and restore MySQL databases via SSH on a Linux server — of course you can! As long as you know the MySQL root p...

I’m sharing a sample code demonstrating how to use the Geolocation API, which is one of the features introduced with HTML5. With this example, you can...

ISO Language Codes: The HTML lang attribute is used to specify the language of a web page. It helps search engines and browsers understand the conte...

Hello there. You've paid your hosting provider and installed SSL. However, people are still able to access your site without SSL. This also applies to...

Hi there. At first, PHP comment lines might seem unnecessary, but they’re actually very important. You realize their value when you revisit your code ...

Hello again. We have a system on a local network. Sometimes we edit and activate certain files based on requests. Since it's an active system, we firs...

Archiving collects files; compression attempts to reduce their size. A plain tar archive is not compressed, while tar.gz adds gzip compression. ZIP is...

These five helpers cover diagnostic logging, byte sizes, elapsed time, Turkish-text slugs and date formatting. They use PHP 8.x syntax; the slug helpe...

A message table can provide daily or hourly counts without maintaining a separate counter. Define the reporting interval, restrict the rows, then grou...