Miscellaneous

This is a short tutorial that will give you an idea of how to create a Tag Cloud and implemented it the pages of your website.

This function is an alternative to str_ireplace() function in php5. It is useful when you need to call str_ireplace() function but you have php4 installed in your server. Put this function stri_replace() as a custom function in your code and do the same work as str_ireplace() does in PHP5

Someone wanted the exact same thing on codeproject.com a while ago but I didn't give much thought to it, until someone at work asked me how to do it - since he wasn't able to find a viable solution on the internet.

In this tutorial I will be showing step-by-step how to detect bots/crawlers with PHP. Bots or Crawlers, are basically search engines crawling around the internet. This is how you get your pages on search engines (well, a major way). Bot Detection isn't something super vital, but if your CMS or website already has practically everything, then you need Bot Detection.

This tutorial will provide you with a basic concept for creating alternating row colors. Using while loops and generating a list from the mysql table.

study case implementation of strtolower and ucwords for data in mysql database

Even if you don't know any php this trick is easy to use and will save you a lot of time when updating the layout of you site. You will learn by this a nice way to use include(); in your site to keep ur site always uptoday in a easy way for you and your visiters

This tutorial is intended for PHP programmers who are interested in writing reusable code. Experience with PHP4 and familiarity with writing classes are assumed. The article is primarily geared toward programmers who are new to writing code libraries, but experienced programmers may find the article informative as well. Introduction

In this tutorial you will learn from a simple code how to generate the page loading time using pure PHP programing. The idea is simple, this script generates a number that counts in seconds the page loading time. It’s a very simple script and is accurate to 0.000000000000001 seconds.

The preg_match function of Php is often used and the online script here includes few examples which can be implemented in any code. There is an online demo. The code will be updated regularly. - just added a preg_match_all example

Learn how to get the referring domain from a URL and how to set up a simple application to display the top referring domains to your website.

This article contains PHP function ae_bar_html for generating HTML/CSS based one-column bar charts. It is suitable for simple diagrams and does not require libgd.

Regular expressions are a powerful tool for examining and modifying text. They enable you to search for patterns within a string, extracting matches flexibly and precisely. This tutorial gives a brief overview of basic regular expression syntax and then considers the functions that PHP provides for working with regular expressions.

In this tutorial we'll learn how to install phpLD (pho Link Directory), the free version, from downloading the script to the last settings to make it work.

Modern web-applications often provide (during registration, or password-reset) random-generated passwords for its users. However these passwords (usually a random combination of letters or numbers) are quite hard to remember: in fact, it's even impossible to read them. This article provides a function for generating English-like readable passwords.

This is a simple tutorial that shows you how to make information or images(in this case buttons) display in a specific number columns per row when extracted from a mySQL database using a query, using a specific algorithem and loop.

Scheduling events to run at certain times can be a useful feature. You may want to backup your database or update a set of files you have cached on your server or perform any number of other resource intensive tasks. You can manually visit the page and this works fine if you have a good memory, it isn't time critical and it doesn't need to be run several times a day. If you and your task don't fit into all those categories (and even if you do but have better things to do with your time) a better alternative will be to run your script using cron. In this article I list the options for scheduling a task to run periodically and I go into detail on running a script with cron.

JavaScript is mainly used as a client side scripting language, while PHP is a server side technology. Unlike Java or ASP.Net, PHP doesn't have tools to make it work client side. That is why you need to combine JavaScript and PHP scripts to develop powerful web-applications.

This routine calculates the distance between two points. It is being used to calculate the distance between two locations using GeoDataSource Products

This script generates a page akin to a browser's View Source option. The advantage of using this script is that you can customise the stlying to match your website user interface.