Instead of curl I like to use http request function from a long and stable framework
PHP: http request function, alternative to curl or file_get_contents. Because I find curl to be tedious. Using...
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18 Oct, 2018
When you copy a custom module to app/code directory. Magento does not pick it up automatically. You need to run this.
24 Jul, 2018
Helper function for converting numbers to words. There is same function available in PHPs NumberFormatter class, but using it is not always possible, since it's not enabled by default.
12 Mar, 2018
Handles any HTTP request correctly. This is a flexible and powerful HTTP client implementation of GET, POST, PUT or any other HTTP requests. The reason I built this was due to use of url arguments...
2 Nov, 2017
Get first n amount of characters from a string. You could use substr for that, but you will get empty results when there are special characters. Thus multibyte string method is the right way to go.
2 Aug, 2017
Instagram gives out json feed. You can use this little php snippet to create rss feed from the given json. The script leverages paging, which enables you to control the items count in the output feed.
23 May, 2017
This snippet encodes urls for curl. If you use special letters like äõöü in url, then you get a bit different url parsing from browsers than curl in PHP. You would think that you could use php's own...
19 May, 2017
Snippet shows you how to fix url query parameters starting with "...
9 Jan, 2017
Check the HTTP Status Code of the website header using PHP. Check that url is giving valid response code of 2xx. You can modify this for different purposes. For detecting 404 not found only or...
6 Dec, 2016
Doing private Soap reqests requires some kind of authentication. One of the most common ways is to use NTML authentication. PHP soap does not support this out of the box it. You can use this tftdias...
5 Dec, 2016
This snippet shows you how to download a file from url without loading it to memory. When you use file_get_contents() and file_set_contents() you load the content to memory and then to file. The...
22 Nov, 2016
Snippet shows you how to get filename from a path in PHP. Filename and extension separately. Can be used for extending filenames with timestamp or anything.
22 Nov, 2016
Select a random file from directory. This can be useful if you want to display a random image on your website. For an example a background image randomly from a directory in your files.
22 Sep, 2016
How to use a DOM parser and get the contents of the body.
26 Aug, 2016
How to validate AJAX requests in Zend Framework. There is a function in request class, to use instead of comparing the $_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH'] directly. This can be beneficial for security...
17 May, 2016
Class for fetching and sending data between directo.ee API. This class includes pulling data from Directo and posting xml with php array to xml generation.
5 May, 2016
This snippet shows you how to trim an array with single line of code. This can be achieved by using "array_map".
8 Feb, 2016
SimplePie is set to 10 seconds timeout in default. So if the feed has problem with speed then you can increase the time. The exact error that I got was "cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 10001...
13 Jan, 2016
How to find out the amount of between two dates. For an example how many days have passed since a defined date.
11 Jan, 2016
Getting every other member of array in PHP. Examples of getting every other odd and even numbers.
10 Jan, 2016
Phar is included in PHP 7 amongst other updates. It's no longer external module. You have to turn off the "readonly" parameter. Since it disables Phar write support by default.
5 Jan, 2016
When you create a simple request without any special REST client, you can do it just by using curl. When you need to do curl request, it's not a good practise to do it on every page load. So the...
4 Jan, 2016
To explode multiple delimiters PHP you have to use regular expression. Add your delimiters in the parentheses separated by pipe. You might have to escape your characters if they have meaning in PCRE...
9 Dec, 2015
Using PHP to read csv file is a common thing to do. Sadly there is no solid standard on delimiters, depends on fully from where you get your csv file. Usually simple csv exports are a bit different...
6 Oct, 2015
Select next, is a functionality well needed in everyday programming. For an example, if you have a function that defines a variable and the variable is used multiple times. You would like to select...
8 Sep, 2015
You can replace all whitespaces (space, new lines, etc.) with a single space using regular expression find and replace.
4 Sep, 2015
PhpStorm by default does not display line numbers. Working with version control or when debugging stuff, you usually get line number of the code where the error appears. So it would make sense that...
5 Mar, 2015
How to get values by key name in multidimensional array. You have to iterate it recursively. This is the first time I can use Iterator classes of PHP and I already can think multiple problems this...
22 Feb, 2015
If you are using larger files like bigger data files or images, memory might become an issue. Even if not, it's always good practice to use optimal amount of memory. Clearing memory is just a part of...
2 Nov, 2014
PCRE regular expression operator OR. In regular expressions "or" is known as "alternatives". Create a subgroup using parenthesis.
29 Oct, 2014
Search and replace using regular expression in PHP using preg_replace function. It is very powerful way to search and replace. I suggest using some online regular expression tool to test out your...
7 May, 2014
This function checks whether a string is valid UTF-8. You can ensure that the string you operate is a valid UTF-8 string. preg_match fails on strings containing invalid UTF-8 byte sequences. It does...
25 Nov, 2013
Encodes special characters in a plain-text string for display as HTML. Validates strings as UTF-8, if not UTF-8 it returns an empty string. It prevents CSS attacks on IE 6.
20 Nov, 2013
This tutorial shows how to prepare a Debian Wheezy web server. This is just a simple setup of basic web server. I myself did it to set up a development environment for myself.
5 Nov, 2013
Check if text contains cyrillic characters in PHP. This example shows you how to do exactly that.
16 Sep, 2013
How to split words in string to an array using regular expressions. You can use this for search indexing for an example.
7 Aug, 2013
This tutorial shows how to parse RSS feeds with PHP. From the libraries and methods that I have tested and used SimplePie is by far the best PHP RSS parser. It supports most common RSS modules out of...
6 Aug, 2013
This snippet shows you how to convert file size in bytes to nice (human-readable) format in PHP. If the size is less than 1 MB, show the size in KB, if it's between 1 MB - 1 GB show it in MB, etc.
25 Jul, 2013
Snippet about getting img tag image url from html using regex in PHP. Example below.
7 May, 2013
Convert time and date from one time zone to another in PHP.
19 Apr, 2013
This snippet shows how to remove HTML elements using DOMDocument in PHP. The problem is that you can't do it in the same loop.
15 Apr, 2013
Sometimes you need to parse HTML with PHP. There are many different ways. It's hard to parse HTML, people write incorrect HTML very often. This code forces DOMDocument to read and later write HTML.
29 Nov, 2012
Remove width and height attributes from img tag using PHP. Really plain and simple replace width and height attributes with nothing.
2 Oct, 2012
Creating range array where key and the value is the same number. I am using array_combine function for that. I give two parameters which are the same array created by range.
9 Aug, 2012
Strip tags in PHP strips all tags, except allowed tags. This function strips tags that you define. Also you can define if you want to strip content as well.
23 Jul, 2012
This function strips tags by any identifier without regexp, and without heavy XML parsing. As long as the tag looks exactly the same in source-code it works.
29 May, 2012
Example how to get field types in MSSQL. You can use it on any query, even procedures.
26 Apr, 2012
Detect character encoding in PHP and convert string to UTF-8.
17 Feb, 2012
How to get all tables names that are in a certain table.
14 Dec, 2011
Getting MySQL tables names in PHP.
14 Dec, 2011
How to get MySQL columns data of a table in PHP. The data includes name, type, null allowed or not, key, default value and extra for auto_increase and such.
11 Oct, 2011
Check if URL is external or internal in PHP. We are going to use parse_url PHP native function. Function parse_url parses a URL and returns an associative array containing any of the various...
22 Sep, 2011
PHP - Frameworks - CodeIgniter
Selecting from multiple tables using ActiveRecord in CodeIgniter. Basics are the same as in query. You select multiple tables, relate tables and select the output fields.
22 Aug, 2011
How to test execution time of any part of the code in PHP. Basically you have to start counting microseconds before you code execution and stop after. This snippet shows how to do the counting.
8 Jul, 2011
This snippet gets content type of a file form external url. This snippet uses curl to download the file and get the content type.
8 May, 2011
How to turn MySQL query into an array in PHP. Print query results on screen. This is useful for determining contents of a table.
3 May, 2011
How to get current, last and coming year in PHP. Simple examples of how you can get different years. Currently the years are calculated from the server time.
20 Feb, 2011
This tutorial shows how to add or append zeros before numbers. You might need this if you want to make folders named by numbers and you want them to be in right order when browsing the folder with...
17 Dec, 2010
PHP - Frameworks - Yii
How to install and set up Yii framework application to your hosting.
15 Dec, 2010
This tutorial shows how you can add text to images with PHP. You can use it to make banners with dynamic content for an example.
6 Dec, 2010
Examples of parsing array values on screen. Some examples for beginners.
12 Nov, 2010
Easy to understand tutorial on how to upload, store and display images in mysql database.
9 Oct, 2010
An easy example of recursion. PHP treeview can be used to create hierarchical lists like menus including sub-menus, category trees, taxonomy trees or site maps. This tutorial shows you how to...
24 Sep, 2010
PHP - Frameworks - CodeIgniter
This tutorial shows you how you can generate JSON from SQL data that comes from model. Converting query to JSON is really simple in PHP and even simpler in CodeIgniter.
20 Sep, 2010
PHP - Frameworks - CodeIgniter
How to make login system for CodeIgniter using OpenID. This example uses Google Accounts for login.
19 Sep, 2010
PHP - Frameworks - CodeIgniter
This tutorial shows you how you can cache code in CodeIgniter, by saving string or plain text into a file.
22 Aug, 2010
PHP - Frameworks - CodeIgniter
In this tutorial we will make RSS 2.0 feeds from latest posts in your site.
25 Jul, 2010
PHP - Frameworks - CakePHP
This tutorial shows how to do URL routing in CakePHP, if you need your URL to be without controller and view.
24 Jul, 2010
PHP - Frameworks - CakePHP
This tutorial shows how you can attach dynamic menu or any content to layout that you still want to call from controllers.
22 Jul, 2010
PHP - Frameworks - CakePHP
This tutorial shows how to install CakePHP. After this tutorial you can start making web application.
15 Jul, 2010
Tutorial about global variables in PHP. How to use global, superglobal in PHP.
26 Jun, 2010
PHP - Frameworks - CodeIgniter
Some knowledge of CI and OOP could be handy. This tutorial shows how to submit Ajax forms in CodeIgniter using jQuery. With optional jQuery UI feedback bubbles.
25 Jun, 2010
This tutorial is about using and converting timestamps in PHP, witch are common formats of storing some timeperiod in database.
16 Jun, 2010
PHP - Frameworks - CodeIgniter
This tutorial shows you how to set up WYSIWYG TinyMCE in CodeIgniter. Both versions standalone and jQuery. It's really easy, most time takes the sample code tweaking.
13 Jun, 2010
This beginners tutorial shows and explains how to get random value from array in PHP.