HTML form is an essential part of Web development process, it allows us to gather data from user inputs and we can do various things with the data we receive from user, we can send email, change interface, layout or save the data directly to our MySql table.

Here’s PHP function that comes in handy when you want to shorten long URLs into short Bit.ly URLs, before sharing it to Twitter or other Social networks. First you need to create Bit.ly OAuth application here, when you create an application you will be able to generate “Generic Access Token” under this application to make API requests on behalf of your own account.

Lots of freelancers own blogs nowadays. It comes with plenty of advantages and benefits and therefore it is understandable why they would choose this means of communicating with their clients. If you are a freelancer but you haven’t started blogging yet, this article will show you why it would be a great idea to own a blog. To be more precise, what is to come will present you a list of ten reasons why you, the freelancer, should try this on.

In the previous post, we had created a simple PHP session based shopping cart, now in this article we will integrating this shopping cart with our PayPal express checkout system. Main idea is to let users buy multiple items using PayPal, shopping cart collects the items users want to buy and then they’ll be able to pay for multiple items using their PayPal account.