Check num day of month

PHP function function getMonthDayNum($month, $year) { $month = (int)$month; $year = (int)$year; $days = 30; switch ($month) { case 1...

PHP ZIP all files in directory and download .zip generated

Well, first of all, this is my folder structure: images/ image1.png image11.png image111.png image223.png generate_zip.php And this i...

JSON encode utf8 in PHP

Using json_encode and JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE constants json_encode($response,JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE) Using json_encode, iconv and preg_mat...

How to hide PHP Warnings and Notices in WordPress

From time to time a user comes to me and says "I see some PHP notices and warnings on my page". Most of the time these are nothin...

How Do you Export a WordPress Site to Static HTML

So, you want to convert your long-standing WordPress to a plain, static HTML site? You no longer need your self-hosted setup that you have b...

Post to multiple Facebook wall or timeline in one go using Graph API batch request

Many Facebook application developers might have come across a situation where they need to post something to many pages, groups or friends. ...

PHP – Fetch gzipped content over http with file_get_contents

The file_get_contents function is often used to quickly fetch a http url or resource. Usage is very simple and appears like this $content =...

HOW TO CONVERT STRINGS INTO A URL FRIENDLY FORMAT USING PHP OR JAVASCRIPT

This function converts strings into a format that can be used in URLs. For example, the string "Mike’s Karate School" would be ret...

Regex match all newline characters within html tag in PHP

I have a string that contains normal characters, white charsets and newline characters between and . This regular expression doesn't ...

How to generate the alias using PHP code

The dream would be that it automatically checks if the alias already exists, and if necessary adds a prefix (or suffix) to ensure each alia...

Base64 Encode and Base64 Decode PHP for GET parameters

<?php /**    * Base64 encoding that doesn't need to be urlencode()ed.    * Exactly the same as base64_encode except it uses    *   -...

Curl upload file PHP

There are "@" issue on multipart POST requests. Solution for PHP 5.5 or later: - Enable CURLOPT_SAFE_UPLOAD. - Use CURLFile instea...

PHP Extract zip file using ZipArchive class

<?php $path = 'zipfile.zip'; $zip = new ZipArchive ; if ( $zip -> open ( $path ) === true ) {     for( $i = 0 ; $i < $zip -...

cURL processes for POST and GET queries functions

<?php /** * Send a POST requst using cURL * @param string $url to request * @param array $post values to send * @param array $options for...

63+ Best practice optimize php code

Here is an interesting list of php tricks and tips, I found them here http://reinholdweber.com/?p=3 and you may take a looke here http://ww...