Preg_Replace all strings between two tags
For those of you who use Preg_Replace. Preg_replace is a function that uses regular expressions to search and replace a string.
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Php convert filesizes to bytes kb mb gb
Just a quick note on how to format a given filesize and to reduce the display output to a small string, eg: 196 bytes : displays as => "196 bytes" 12945 bytes : displays as => "12 Kb" 1478515 bytes : displays as => "1 Mb" 8798745455 bytes : displays as => "8 Gb"
Convert seconds to total time in PHP
This is intended for activity/session durations and although I usually get MySQL to do the date/time calculations, there are times when we have to do with PHP. This is the shortest way I know to properly convert seconds into total hours, minutes and seconds (taking into account regional settings and without using a dat...
First and Last Entry on a Page using Modulus Remainder
So I know it's quite a long title but I'm not sure what I'll be searching next time. It has taken me a lot longer than I thought it would mostly out of frustration and the inability to know exactly what I'm looking for... always difficult. After a cup of tea the solution was glaringly obvious, just do a primary school...
PHP & MySQL Search Engine
Do you hate sites that do not have a search feature? I do. I think it defeats the purpose of cramming information endlessly in cyberspace. So we want to give a search engine to our users. This sounds really simple, we could try: $search_term_esc = AddSlashes($search_term); $sql = "SELECT * FROM Content WHERE content_bo...
UTF8 Unicode PHP MySQL for International Characters
This is a note to myself but also to anyone out there who's spent as long as I did looking for a solution to this. Maybe it's just me but this is the scenario: Joomla works fine with international characters A Module Extension I wrote for Joomla! displayed funny characters. The Joomla! articles were displaying the corr...
Yesterday's time in PHP
Quick tip or note to self: How to get yesterday's date irrespective of date format or daylight savings time. $today=date("Y-m-d"); $yesterday = date('Y-m-d', mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m") , date("d") - 1, date("Y")));
Creating a Top 10 chart with less code
I've decided to put something in here as it took me an age to find out how I could do it. This is when using a MySQL query within a PHP script. The process is used often to do a statistics table or top ten chart of your data (eg. movies, music, etc). My aim is to do the following: retrieve data from a table, count the...
Outputting PHP files into different file formats
I'm beginning a list as I've just spent an age trying to get PHP output to create a text file. Then my client showed me how she then opens the text file in Excel, so I said we could get the script to do that instead.PHP to TXT header('Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; f...
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