“Hello World!” with PHP
If you are going to learn to code with PHP for the web, you will eventually need to set up…
Sending multi-part email with PHP
This post from the archives deals with HTML email formatting when sending multi-part emails with PHP’s mail() function.
PHP’s max_execution_time & set_time_limit()
Time limits are imposed on scripts running on a web server in an attempt to prevent slow scripts from downgrading…
Number output exercise using PHP modulus
And here is a particularly ugly solution to a simple problem: The code is self-documenting. Originally published 8 October 2013.…
WAMP (& LAMP)
Setting up a dev box with Apache HTTP Server, PHP and MySQL is an important skill for any web developer.…
List folders in a directory with PHP
This simple PHP script lists all the folders in a directory. I use this code on the homepage of my…
Scrape a URL’s Content Using PHP cURL
Some more fiddling with PHP cURL. In this tutorial: See also: 1. Enable cURL 2. Demo See the demo here:…
PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser library
I cannot remember why I was busy fiddling with cURL, but I did some fiddling scraping URLs using the PHP…
Upgrading PHP on a Windows dev box
I am busy maintaining my dev box and upgrading all the software necessary for all the “fun stuff”. Part of…