Archive for the ‘ PHP ’ Category

Past few months, I have seen a lot of people asking for sites that teach php from the ground up. So, here are a couple of places you can go to learn php from scratch. http://www.addedbytes.com/php/php-cheat-sheet/ Learn PHP Free.com PHP.net – Start melonfire.com http://codewalkers.com/ Free 2 code http://forums.devnetwork.net http://www.objectgraph.com/dictionary/php.html http://www.gotapi.com/html http://dev.mysql.com/usingmysql/php/ You know, i am [...] Read more..

This is modified and expanded version of http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/news/how-to-read-an-rss-feed-with-php-screencast. <?php function shorten($string, $length=65){ $truncated_string = ''; foreach (explode(' ', $string) as $word){ if (strlen($truncated_string) >= $length){ return $truncated_string; } $truncated_string .= (!empty($truncated_string) ? ' ' : '') . $word; } return $truncated_string; } function getFeed($feed_url) { $content = file_get_contents($feed_url); $x = new SimpleXmlElement($content); echo "<ul class='rss-feed'>"; [...] Read more..

This class can be used to get information of the country of an IP address. It takes an IP address and queries MySQL database to determine the country associated with the given IP address range. The class returns the associated country name and country codes with both 2 and 3 letters. You can get more [...] Read more..

My company asks me to take daily alexa report manually. I took for more than 3 months. But, after that, i got bored in doing manual works. Becuase, nearly i needs to take more than 20 websites per day. It’s eats my time and structs in my remaining works. So, i searched for solution online [...] Read more..

Google have finally made an API available for Google Analytics although it’s currently in beta and the specs are subject to change. I’ve been playing around this morning logging in using ClientLogin Username/Password Authentication with PHP and CURL and show how to do this here. The code example below attempts to log in using $email [...] Read more..

This is actually a neat trick. Here is the example: <?php if (isset($username[5])) { // The username is at least six characters long. } ?> When you treat strings as arrays, each character in the string is an element in the array. By determining whether a particular element exists, you can determine whether the string [...] Read more..

This tip accidentally stumbles upon a useful practice, which is to always initialize variables before you use them. Consider a conditional statement that determines whether a user is an administrator based on the username: <?php if (auth($username) == 'admin') { $admin = TRUE; } else { $admin = FALSE; } ?> This seems safe enough, [...] Read more..

This is a good tip, but it is missing a practical example that demonstrates when a non-strict comparison can cause problems. If you use strpos() to determine whether a substring exists within a string (it returns FALSE if the substring is not found), the results can be misleading: <?php $authors = 'Vijay & Jana'; if (strpos($authors, 'Vijay')) [...] Read more..

This class will be used to custom the SQL Datetime format in your style. This may very useful for web developers to make their work easy. Class (Store as “sql.date.class.php“): <?php class FormatDate { public function Date($SQLdate, $format) { $maketime = strtotime($SQLdate); return date($format,$maketime); } } $dateobj = new FormatDate; ?> Implementation (Store as “index.php“): [...] Read more..

What is Mysql Injection? SQL injection refers to the act of someone inserting a MySQL statement to be run on your database without your knowledge. Injection usually occurs when you ask a user for input, like their name, and instead of a name they give you a MySQL statement that you will unknowingly run on [...] Read more..