How to Check if Your PHP Function Exists
A good way to get your PHP code to break is to reference a function that doesn’t exist (to be fair, this method of breaking...
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How to get the File Extension from a String in PHP
July 22, 2013
by Craig Lotter
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There are plenty of methods of getting the file extension from a file name in PHP, but if you’re looking for a pretty quick and...
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How to add Custom Query Parameters in WordPress
July 8, 2013
by Craig Lotter
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I’m in the process of modifying my WordPress theme such that when you click on one of the post excerpts shown on the home page,...
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Quick and Dirty PHP URL Shortener
June 27, 2013
by Craig Lotter
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An URL Shortener isn’t a particularly difficult piece of code to write, nor implement. Basically it is nothing more than creating a short unique string...
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PHP: Thousands Separator
June 17, 2013
by Craig Lotter
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Large numbers aren’t quite so easy for the human brain to read. Our brains tend to like breaking things up into smaller chunks to better...
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Test Your PHP Code Online: PHP CodePad
April 27, 2013
by Craig Lotter
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Quite often I have a snippet of PHP code that I’ve quickly typed out, maybe a string builder or something like that, and I need...
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PHP Tip for when connecting to Multiple MySQL Databases in a Project
April 25, 2013
by Craig Lotter
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It is not very common but sometimes you’ll find yourself working on a project that features multiple databases holding all the information we need. Now...
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PHP Function to Extract an E-mail from a String
March 31, 2013
by Craig Lotter
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Given a string, it would often be quite useful to extract any e-mail addresses that it might contain. Luckily for us, PHP makes this fairly...
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PHP Function to Remove all Double and Triple Spaces from a String
March 19, 2013
by Craig Lotter
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An often overlooked tweak when cleaning a user or system input string is to make sure that there aren’t any double, triple or basically multiple...
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How to Fix PHP Warning: “It is not Safe to rely on the System’s Timezone Settings”
February 26, 2013
by Craig Lotter
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At some point in time with the newer versions of PHP, a lot of you would see this warning spit out by your PHP installation...
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