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Get the Last Day of a Month using PHP

TweetPicked this cool little PHP function to calculate and return the last day of a month for any year off the always informative lutrov interactive website the other day, and posted it here for future reference[ READ MORE ]

PHP: Calculate the Number of Working Days in a Month

TweetHow to calculate the number of working days in a month, in other words discount Saturdays and Sundays from a month[ READ MORE ]

Scripts

TweetFull Featured Javascript Browser detection script Simple Javascript Browser detection script Full Featured PHP browser and OS detection script Light Featured PHP browser detection script Simple PHP browser detection script Our PHP browser detection scripts are all tested on every browser we have access to: Opera, Mozilla (and other Gecko engine browsers), Firefox/Iceweasel, Netscape, to [...][ READ MORE ]

Password Strength Tester

TweetLately there is a proliferation of password strength testers on an increasing amount of sites. Generally they are annoying and have the same credibility as a ‘users on line’ script. This simple function goes over the basics or allocating points based on the password content. There are as many variations of this as there are [...][ READ MORE ]

Google Maps With PHP And Phproogle

TweetThis examples shows how to use the PHPRO phproogle class to create a google map with ease. Creating a Google Map is quick and simple with this class and avoids the complex world that is the Google Maps API. <?php /***[ READ MORE ]

Rainbow Text

TweetIf the tag cloud is the mullet of the internet, then rainbow text is the camel toe of the net. Ghastly to look at, but you just can’t take your eyes from it. There are many variations on how to produce rainbow text. This method employs a simple array of color values and applies them [...][ READ MORE ]

Substr In Array

TweetTo find if a value exists in an array, the PHP in_array() function works quite nicely. But there are times when only a partial match is required to check in the array. This substr_in_array() function checks will search the values of an array for a substring. The $needl can be a string or an array [...][ READ MORE ]

PHP Finger Client Linux Kernel

TweetThis example shows how to create a simple finger client with php. The script connects to kernel.org to fetch the latest linux kernel information. Here a simple unordered list is created to display the contents. <ul> <?php /***[ READ MORE ]

Recursive File Exists

TweetRecently a request to PHPAsKS asked how to check if a file exists within a directory, or sub directory of the parent. With the use of the PHP SPL recursiveDirectoryIterator this is quite simple. Care should be taken that if any sub directory withing the specified directory to search does not have adequate permissions, the [...][ READ MORE ]

Get Text Between Tags

TweetThis example provides a method of retrieving text from between tags. DO NOT USE REGEX TO PARSE HTML By using regular expressions with the preg_match() or preg_match_all() functions, the parse is made to work extremely hard as PHP loops over and over the text to find matches. By using the DOM functions the speed is [...][ READ MORE ]

PHP Errors As Exceptions

TweetWith the use of the set_error_handler() function, PHP runtime errors can be turned into exceptions with the use of a custom function to throw an exception when a runtime error occurs. The error level can be set to E_WARNING, E_ALL or any error level supported by set_error_handler. <?php /***[ READ MORE ]

PHP Tutorial for Beginners

Tweet Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 What Is PHP? 2 What you’ll need 3 Steps 3.1 The Basics 3.1.1 Basic Syntax 3.1.2 Code Syntax 3.2 Your First Script 3.3 Error Messages 3.4 A Few More Statements 3.5 Very Able Variables 3.5.1 Naming Variables 3.6 HTML Forms and PHP 3.6.1 Get versus Post 3.7 Arrays 3.8 Associative [...][ READ MORE ]

Beginners PHP

Tweet > PHP Section One – An Introduction to PHP 1. What is PHP and Why do I need it? 2. What you need to get started 3. Installing and testing Easy PHP4. Troubleshooting > PHP Two – Getting Started With Variables 1. What is a Variable? 2. Putting text into variables 3. Variables – [...][ READ MORE ]