As we all know, Amazon S3 is a cost-effective, reliable, fast and secure object storage system, which allows us to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web. Today I am going to show you how you can directly upload any file to Amazon AWS S3 using HTML Form and PHP without compromising your own server security and upload latency.

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a Reddit login button for your website using PHP. What is OAuth? OAuth is a protocol used to allow secure authorization to websites and applications to access user information. There are two versions of OAuth, 1.0 and 2.0. In this post we will use OAuth 2.0 to build a Reddit login system.

To simplify things I created a simple Payment System with PayPal REST API in my previous post. But today I want to extend that tutorial making it bit complex and allowing customers to either pay with PayPal payment method or credit cards directly. Yes PayPal allows people to pay for your products directly using credit cards, which requires absolutely no user sign-in or sign-ups with PayPal.

Everyone’s been really excited about PayPal REST API since its launch, so I decided to try and explore PayPal’s new RESTful web service. And after playing a bit with it, I was able to create my own simple online cell phone store successfully. Here’s how!