PHP Web Development Tutorials

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password.class.php <?php /* * Simple password generator define ('PC_MINUS', 0x01); define ('PC_CAPITAL', 0x02); define ('PC_NUMBERS', 0x04); define ('PC_SPACES', 0x08);
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Let us say you have some images and want to watermark those images with some other gif, jpeg, png images or with some plain text on the fly in PHP. It actually looks tough but it is very simple. Let us take a real time example of profile picture option we have here at Go4Expert.com where if you...
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This script is a simple file based counter. This is meant for sites that do not run a db and instead, use a file and a cookie. It isn't the best I've seen but it's simple. Consider this as a tutorial. Just create a file called counter.txt and put this where you want to display the...
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Introduction Actually, this has been taken from my blog(www.sampctricks.blogspot.com) and I re-updated the article for Go4expert. I am myself newbie to programming but still I have included here what I myself practice. This is just a basic guide to prevent basic flaws in your PHP based web apps....
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Sometimes we need to find the number of items, located inside an array.Let's take this array as example, $a=1; $a=3; $a=4; $a=5; here the total item count is 4, but when you use count() function you get 3. So I wrote a small function which counts array elements, even recursively. ...
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The code snippet below will pick up a random image from the server and sends it to the browser. Try it out. <?php if($_GET){ $folder=$_GET; }else{ $folder='/images/'; } //path to image dir
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Building web applications with membership management is one of the most frequent tasks that every programmer does. Managing membership data, such as username, password and the member's profile with sessions in PHP is the easiest and simplest solution. Sessions stores data about a particular...
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Background I've needed the header function in php so many times I figured I'd write a tutorial on it. This tutorial should help you do most of the things that the header function is capable of. Simply put, the php header function will send a http header to the browser. Headers in PHP If...
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Bubble sort in this form allows someone to order number arrays from lowest number to highest number and vice verse. This article serves the purpose of providing the bubble sort algorithm for use in php. I found a tuts @ active.tutsplus and I used it as a base to create a direct port over to php. ...
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Cookies are basically small files which are stored in User’s Computer. Their main purpose is to hold data specific to a particular client and Website, They can only be accessed either by Web Server or the client computer. This allows the server to access user specific data while saving space on the...
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How to show the no. of users online on your site using PHP & MySQL. Step1: Creating the database Create a new table called 'useronline', with 3 fields inside a table. The fields are timestamp, ip and file. Below is the SQL to create the table. CREATE TABLE useronline ( timestamp...
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Well, I always had a problem identifying my MP3 files because of their vague filenames like, "Track 1.mp3" or "Bryan Adams 1.mp3", I was wondering whether I could rename the file depending upon the MP3 tags, so I came with up this script with reads MP3 tags and renames the file according to the...
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Introduction RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. An RSS document, which is called a "feed," "web feed," or "channel," contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text....
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What is MAIL4EVERY1? After long time, I got this very unusual idea to make something useful :D Basically I got fed up with my web host not allowing mail() feature and so MAIL4EVERY1. Mail4Every1 is a simple script that would allow any one to send emails even if the webhost allows the mail() or...
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If you have PHP4 working on your server, and have heard that PHP5 may screw up things. Here's how to have both running alongside. #!/bin/sh # PHP5 CGI Installer for cPanel/WHM Servers VERSION=5.0.4 cd /usr/src wget -O php.tbz2...
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Title says it all but to reemphasize that below PHP code block validate an email address. Its always good to have a client side validation for faster user responses but backend check is also needed for user not having client side scripting on. <?php function emailsyntax_is_valid($email) { ...
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The below is a code to gauge ur php performance <?php function micro_time_val($mytime) { $gettime=explode(" ",$mytime); $msec=(double)$gettime; $sec=(double)$gettime; return ($sec + $msec);
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PHP is arguably the most popular scripting language for Web sites. This popularity comes with a price, however, and that is increased attention to various vulnerabilities in PHP itself and in the plethora of Web applications written in PHP. The security features built into PHP are weak, and the...
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Many times its required that we truncate a long string and add ellipsis to the end of the truncated string. Here's a function which does exactly that. function truncate( $varb, $num ) { $dnum = intval($num); if (strlen($varb)>$dnum) { $nvarb = substr($varb, 0,...
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All like to create PHP scripts as fast as possible, and we try to take any shortcuts that we have. Here are few tips to speed up php code Tip -1 Using a good editor can really save you time. If you're still stuck on using Notepad to edit your PHP scripts, switch right now. There are...
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