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How to Remove the Last Character of a String in PHP

October 28, 2022

If you need to remove the last character of a string in PHP, then you can do the following:

How to Create Function with Multiple Returns in PHP

October 27, 2022

If you need to create a PHP function that returns multiple values, then you can do one of the following.

How to Divide an Array into Chunks in PHP

May 20, 2021

If you have a single-dimensional array, and want to break it into chunks, you can use the array_chunks method.

How to Strip Script Tags in PHP

May 5, 2021

If you have some HTML input submitted from a user to your application, before saving it to the database, you may want to strip all <script> tags so that you can prevent cross site scripting attacks and other potential issues.

Recursively Delete Files and Folders and all Contents using PHP

June 10, 2020

Below is a quick and easy way to recursively delete all files and folders in a given path using PHP.

How to make a disk cache using PHP

April 5, 2020

If you have a busy PHP driven website and don’t want to make constant queries to the database for each user that will see the same data, then you can easily resolve this problem by letting the first of these visitors generate a cache for the consecutive visitors.

How to Follow Redirects with cURL for CLI or PHP

March 1, 2020

Linux , Php

Let’s take a really common example. Say we want to follow redirects with cURL for google.

How to build a website quickly using PHP

February 1, 2020

PHP is a powerful scripting language created for the web.

Create daterange array of missing dates

February 20, 2014

<?php //fromDate 2014 - 01 - 22 //toDate 2014 - 02 - 20 //$arr Array( [0] = & gt; Array( [ISO_DATE] = & gt; 2014 - 02 - 18[DAY_SUM_AMOUNT] = & gt; 3000[DAY_SUM_VOLUME] = & gt; 2[CONVERSION_PCT] = & gt; 100 ) [1] = & gt; Array( [ISO_DATE] = & gt; 2014 - 02 - 19[DAY_SUM_AMOUNT] = & gt; 4000[DAY_SUM_VOLUME] = & gt; 1[CONVERSION_PCT] = & gt; 100 ) ) //codetime function createDateRangeArray($strDateFrom, $strDateTo) { $aryRange = array(); $iDateFrom = mktime(1, 0, 0, substr($strDateFrom, 5, 2) , substr($strDateFrom, 8, 2) , substr($strDateFrom, 0, 4)); $iDateTo = mktime(1, 0, 0, substr($strDateTo, 5, 2) , substr($strDateTo, 8, 2) , substr($strDateTo, 0, 4)); if ($iDateTo & gt; = $iDateFrom) { array_push($aryRange, date('Y-m-d', $iDateFrom)); // first entry while ($iDateFrom & lt; $iDateTo) { $iDateFrom += 86400; // add 24 hours array_push($aryRange,date('Y-m-d',$iDateFrom)); } } return $aryRange; } function recursive_array_search($needle,$haystack) { foreach($haystack as $key=>$value) { $current_key = $key; if ($needle === $value or (is_array($value) & amp; & amp; recursive_array_search($needle, $value) !

URL GET vars to PHP Array

May 14, 2013

Sometimes you will need to retrieve the GET variables passed into the current page URI or you will have a URL string to work from which contains certain GET variables, the below method helps a lot to convert them into an array which you can easily manipulate later.

Remove specific HTML tags using PHP

March 21, 2013

There are times when you want to remove a specific HTML tag from an HTML block of text.

Let Joomla and MySQL interact!

December 21, 2012

My SQL , Php

I often need a quick and easy few lines to retrieve some data from MySQL using Joomla without all the MVC nonsense that usually goes about this topic.

Refresh User Data in Joomla

October 21, 2012

I was busy with a custom component in Joomla, and it stored it’s own user_details based off of the main users table, but if the details were changed then I needed the system to update the session to reflect the changes.

Extract email addresses from a string – PHP

October 9, 2012

Sometimes you need to extract multiple email addresses from a string and the following function will make all your dreams come true.

Make a dynamic year dropdown using PHP

September 18, 2012

Ever wanted to have a dropdown that automatically showed the current year and the few years before it?

Pad a string with zeros using PHP

September 17, 2012

Recently I had to create a code/username maker to fit into a certain type of pattern so that all “broker codes” (as they were called) followed the same path.

Function split() is deprecated in PHP

June 12, 2012

You heard it right! split() is officially a deprecated function. That means that you can still use it if you are really brave and it will work correctly, but don’t expect to see it in later versions of PHP when they come out.

DateTime conversion function using PHP

May 1, 2012

It’s really very simple to convert times in different timezones using the following function.

Convert seconds to days, hours, minutes, seconds in PHP

May 1, 2012

With the following function you can easily convert an integer containing seconds to a nice days, hours, minutes, seconds string or array.

Get amount of hours between 2 hours

April 27, 2012

If you would like to get the amount of hours between 10:00 and 12:00 then use this!

How to get the Hours Difference (in HH:MM format) in PHP

April 12, 2012

It’s very simple to get the difference in hours using PHP

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()

February 28, 2012

A common error which occurs with foreach loops is the standard “Invalid argument supplied for foreach()” whch gets thrown up as a warning.

PHP nl2br on one line

February 18, 2012

I usually store data from a textarea directly to the database as is, then once I retrieve it back into HTML I use that lovely PHP function nl2br() to convert it to HTML

Remove all linebreaks in PHP

January 30, 2012

If you are having problems with a string that keeps adding a line break when output from PHP to HTML then the following code will work wonders for you!

Restrict PHPMyAdmin to IP Address

August 22, 2011

Would you like to restrict PHPMyAdmin from being accessible to the whole world?

WordPress wp-admin use different language for user

July 7, 2011

I needed to do some work on a WordPress site a little while ago and all the admins were French – and I cannot speak French other than the popular swear words – so had no idea what was going on in the /wp-admin/ so needed some way of enabling my newly created user account to be in english while letting everybody else use french as they had been up til that point.

Replace all spaces in HTML with except in HTML tags using PHP

May 29, 2011

If you would like to replace all the spaces in an HTML string with so that you can render it out to the browser but you also want to retain current spaces in HTML tags you can use the below method:

Using PHP to validate an IP address

May 18, 2011

You can use the PHP code below to check if an IP address is valid or not.

What is the difference between is_home() and is_front_page()

May 13, 2011

Call me ignorant, or call me an ignorant geek, but I used to think is_home() and is_front_page() was the same thing, until I experimented with them the other day and noticed they did quite different things.

Hide all error messages PHP

April 28, 2011

PHP Error messages showing up in your web applications are a dangerous thing.

What is xmlrpc.php?

February 22, 2011

It is a script which allows clients to make procedural calls over the net.

Stop That Referrer in PHP!

November 1, 2010

Today I will show you a method to stop the traffic that a referrer site is sending your way, you may wonder why you would want to ignore traffic, after all, isn’t inbound traffic to your site fantastic no matter what?

Ternary Operation

October 12, 2010

Javascript , Php

If you do not know what the Ternary operator is, or do not use it while you are coding, let me be the first to tell you how much you are missing out!

[Solved] PHP’s typeof – gettype()

September 6, 2010

Quite often you may need the ability to check what type of data type a variable is.

Actionscript 2 – PHP Data Transfer

May 17, 2010

Actionscript , Php

In the below example we will use Actionscript 2 to call a remote PHP file that will return data to it.

Unique Random Numbers in PHP

May 13, 2010

If you would like to show random numbers using PHP you can do this:

HTML mail() Sending as Plain Text

May 11, 2010

$to = "[email protected]"; $subject = "SUBJECT"; $message = "<b>MESSAGE</b>"; $headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.

A PHP Mail Class

April 26, 2010

Below is a Mail class I created in PHP, it requires 4 arguments on initiation of the class via the constructor and uses the method ->send() to send the created mail once complete.

PHPExcel Class Usage

April 23, 2010

I just finished adding an export xls (excel) export feature to a web application.

phpMyAdmin – Invalid field count in csv input on line 1

April 9, 2010

I was trying to import a massive csv dataset into phpMyAdmin and it kept throwing error:

Get all directories in PHP

February 17, 2010

I think this may be the fastest way to get a list of all the directories in a given folder/directory using PHP.

What does FILE in php mean?

January 26, 2010

In php there are a few magic constants and I find FILE to be a very useful one.

Change PHP Session Time

January 25, 2010

The default time for a php session is 1440 seconds.

Get current working directory of php script/application

January 8, 2010

$myPath = realpath(dirname(__FILE__)); or $myPath = getcwd();

Force Download in PHP

December 16, 2009

This script works in all browsers, including Internet Explorer! 🙂

shortText function toggler in php

December 15, 2009

I often have to show a shortened version of a news item and then a link to show the entire news article or whatever.

PHP – file() lines

December 15, 2009

$lines = file('all-words.txt'); foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) { echo "Line number ".

Send Email PHP Function

December 10, 2009

Ever find yourself typing the headers into the php mail() function over and over again?

PHP __autoload function

October 20, 2009

When PHP encounters a class that hasn’t been defined yet, you can use __autoload to automatically add them instead of including masses of included at the top of your files.

Sending data from javascript to php

October 20, 2009

Javascript , Php

If you ever find yourself needing to do some ajax and in turn sending strings of characters via javascript then you should really try encodeURIComponent() to wrap your strings in.

Uppercase the first character of each word in a string using PHP

October 20, 2009

You can use “ucwords()” to uppercase the first character of each word in a string.

Actionscript 3 equivalent of PHP’s print_r

October 20, 2009

Actionscript , Php

A brilliant version of print_r for actionscript: http://dev.base86.com/solo/47/actionscript_3_equivalent_of_phps_printr.html