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The Top Five PHP Content Management System

  • March 8th, 2010
  • Posted in PHP

The Top Five PHP Content Management System With solutions such as The Zend Framework and CodeIgniter making it easier than ever to create complex web applications, it can be tempting to flex your developer muscles and create custom framework-based solutions whenever the opportunity arises. However, the PHP community has also made great strides with another type [ READ MORE ]

Five Fabulous PHP Frameworks

  • March 8th, 2010
  • Posted in PHP

Five Fabulous PHP Frameworks Highlight any portion you want: var showHover=true; [ READ MORE ]

15 Open Source eCommerce Platforms

  • February 20th, 2010
  • Posted in PHP

15 Open Source eCommerce Platforms Whether you’re about to open your first online shop or you’re considering changing the ecommerce platform you’re currently using, you’ll find all the information you need below. We take a look at the 15 most popular eCommerce platforms, breaking each one down into its respective pros and cons. There is a [ READ MORE ]

23 Wordpress E-commerce Plugins To Set Up Online Store

  • February 20th, 2010
  • Posted in PHP

23 Wordpress E-commerce Plugins To Set Up Online StoreIn the last few years Wordpress improves itself  so much and every day and maybe every hour new plugins are being released for Wordpress.When Wordpress was first released it was hard to imagine to use wordpress platform as a shopping platform or selling anything from the blog [ READ MORE ]

Scripts — Full Featured PHP Browser Detection & OS Detection

Scripts — Full Featured PHP Browser Detection & OS DetectionFull 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 [ READ MORE ]

Ajax Form Validation and Thread-safe Ajax

Ajax Form Validation and Thread-safe AjaxThis degradable form validation demo verifies the form at the server side on the classic form submit, and also implements AJAX validation while the user navigates through the form. Degradable AJAX Form Validation Doing a final server-side validation when the form is submitted is always a must. If someone disables JavaScript in [ READ MORE ]

AJAX development

AJAX developmentWeb 2.0 has transformed the way content is presented over the internet. AJAX takes user interaction to a totally new level providing “real time” content. Eliminating continuous requests to the server, AJAX simplifies the retrieval and alteration of data on a web page. Web users can now get “live” updates across sections inside a [ READ MORE ]

Password Strength Tester

Password Strength TesterLately 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 [ READ MORE ]

Phproogle

  • January 13th, 2010
  • Posted in PHP

PhproogleHere is a fully funtional class to produce google maps. The class permits much customization and allows the user to quickly implement google maps on a site within minutes without any knowledge of javascript or of the Google Maps API. <?php class phproogleMap { /* * @The google api key */ private $apiKey; /* * @the map zoom level */ private $mapZoom = 8; /* * @The width of the map div */ private $mapWidth = 350; /* * @The height of the map div */ private $mapHeight = 300; /* * @The map center */ private $mapCenter; /* * The array of map types */ private $googleMapTypes; /* * @The map type */ private $mapType [ READ MORE ]

Google Maps With PHP And Phproogle

Google Maps With PHP And PhproogleThis 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 /*** include the phroogle class definition ***/ include 'phproogle.class.php'; try { /*** a new phproogle instance ***/ $map = new phproogleMap(); /*** the google api key ***/ $map->apiKey = 'YOUR_GOOGLE_API_KEY_HERE'; /*** zoom is 0 - 19 ***/ $map->mapZoom = 14; /*** the map width ***/ $map->mapWidth = 350; /*** the map height ***/ $map->mapHeight = 300; /*** set the map type ***/ $map->mapType [ READ MORE ]

PHP Tag Cloud

  • January 13th, 2010
  • Posted in PHP

PHP Tag CloudDescribed by some as the “mullet of the internet”, the occurance of tag clouds seems to be inversely proportional to the IQ of webmasters who allow them. Great algorithms has been written and formulae touted as better than the rest in what seems to be another holy war. Here we put forward a [ READ MORE ]

Rainbow Text

Rainbow TextIf 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 [ READ MORE ]

Substr In Array

Substr In ArrayTo 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 [ READ MORE ]

Get Relative Root

  • January 13th, 2010
  • Posted in PHP

Get Relative RootPHP provides functions to get the webserver document root within the $_SERVER super global array, and for getting the current working directory with the getcwd() function. But it often occurs that the document is being served from another directory within the web tree. This function will get the current working directory, relative to [ READ MORE ]

PHP Finger Client Linux Kernel

PHP Finger Client Linux KernelThis 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 /*** connect to port 79 ***/ $fp = fsockopen('kernel.org', 79); /*** get the info ***/ while( !feof($fp) ) { /*** get the text ***/ $text = fgets($fp, 128); /*** make sure we have a valid line ***/ if(trim($text) != '') { /*** add to the list ***/ echo '<li>'. trim($text).'</li>'; } } /*** close the file pointer ***/ fclose($fp); ?> </ul> Demonstration The latest linux-next version of the Linux [ READ MORE ]

Recursive File Exists

Recursive File ExistsRecently 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 [ READ MORE ]

Get Text Between Tags

Get Text Between TagsThis 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 [ READ MORE ]

PHP Errors As Exceptions

PHP Errors As ExceptionsWith 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 /*** set error handler level to E_WARNING ***/ set_error_handler('custom_handler', E_WARNING); /** * * @custom error function to throw exception * * @param int $errno The error number * * @param string $errmsg The error message * */ function custom_handler($errno, $errmsg) { throw new Exception('This Error Happened '.$errno.': '. $errmsg); } [ READ MORE ]

Thumbnail From Animated GIF

  • January 13th, 2010
  • Posted in PHP

Thumbnail From Animated GIFSeperating the individual images in an animated gif with PHP has never been easier than now with the Imagick extension. The Imagick extension allows a vast array of functionality with image manipulation. Here an animated gif is iterated over frame by frame and each frame is resized and thumbnailed. Note the use [ READ MORE ]

Create Thumbnail With GD

  • January 13th, 2010
  • Posted in PHP

Create Thumbnail With GDAs a compliment to the amazing iMagick extension which allows an easy method to create thumbnails from images, this example shows how to create a thumbnail image using the GD library that is bundled with PHP. The script also takes into account the dimensions of the image and maintains the original aspect [ READ MORE ]

Convert Seconds To Hours Minutes Seconds Words

  • January 13th, 2010
  • Posted in PHP

Convert Seconds To Hours Minutes Seconds WordsHere is a PHP function that will convert seconds into hours, minutes and seconds. The function makes use of bcmod to do the modulo operations and with some simple strings, the result is returned. The demonstration uses the PHP time() function to get the number of seconds since EPOCH, [ READ MORE ]

Format Date For RSS Feed

  • January 13th, 2010
  • Posted in PHP

Format Date For RSS FeedHere is a small function that makes use of the PHP date function to return a date string formatted for use with RSS feeds. The RSS feed pubDate is optional when when creating RSS feeds, however, some agtregators complain bitterly when it is missing. As an aside, it is nice to [ READ MORE ]

Create Favicon With Imagick

  • January 13th, 2010
  • Posted in PHP

Create Favicon With ImagickHere is an example that will take any image format supported by Image Magick (is there one that is not?) and create a 16 pixel favicon image from it. The cropThumbnailImage() method does the work of resizing and cropping in a single swoop while the setFormat() method converts the file to .ico [ READ MORE ]

Strip All Non Alphanumeric Characters Except Space With PHP

  • January 13th, 2010
  • Posted in PHP

Strip All Non Alphanumeric Characters Except Space With PHPA quite common request received by PHPAsKS is to strip all “bad characters” except for a space. Bad characters are defined in these requests as any non alpha numeric characters. Most often these requests are from people who wish to sanitize postal addresses or the like. This [ READ MORE ]

Create Halo Effect With Imagick

  • January 13th, 2010
  • Posted in PHP

Create Halo Effect With ImagickThis simple example uses the imagick extension to create text on an image with halo or glow effect. The effect is quite simple to create by annotating in-focus text over blurred text. This can be used to create dynamic images with text for many uses. <?php /*** a new imagick object ***/ $im = new Imagick(); /*** create a new image ***/ $im->newImage( 500, 200, 'transparent' ); /*** a new draw object ***/ $draw [ READ MORE ]

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