1) If you read a .csv file for download: use \xEF\xBB\xBF after headers and just before you echo file data. For example: echo “\xEF\xBB\xBF”; // UTF-8 BOM readfile($file); 2) If you echo per line use htmlspecialchars_decode to covert single and…
Category: PHP
How to get file extension using PHP
A simple yet powerful approach to get file extension using PHP. We usually need to extract file extension from file name while uploading file so that we could generate new name and rename file to our convenience. We could create…
Useful php debug function to output data with line number
A very useful php debug function i like to use to print debug output to browser window. In some cases where i may not output the debug to browser window i use the same php debug function to receive debug…
Ideal way to perform email validation in php
I found this email validation function while working in ActiveCollab. By default, this function uses PHP’s inbuilt filter_var function to validate email, which is supported in PHP 5 (> 5.2.0). If version of PHP is older (is less than 5.2.0)…
Covert PHP config size values to bytes
Convert PHP config value (2M, 8M, 200K…) to bytes. Use full when converting values received, for an example, through ini_get(‘memory_limit’).
Ideal way to define directory separator in PHP
Ideal way to define directory separator in PHP // Directory separator if(!defined(‘DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR’)) { define(‘DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR’, strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS, 0, 3) == ‘WIN’) ? ‘\\’ : ‘/’); } // if
Creating a module in ActiveCollab3
One page guide on creating a new modules to create home screen widget in ActiveCollab3 application. First we need to create a directory for our module. We are going to create it under a /path/to/activecollab/custom/modules directory (where /path/to/activecollab is full…
Creating and Parsing JSON data with PHP
What is JSON? JSON is ultra-weight data interchange data format used over the internet for transferring the data. While XML is a dominant data interchange format over the internet but JSON is less complex and light-weight data.
Caching large menus or header/footer links in WordPress
Even if you are not using some robust caching plugin or tool in wordpress you can cache small chunks of data using basic caching techniques of PHP. In my example i had been creating a few dozens of links in…
Installing PHPUnit in wamp in Windows7
Installing PEAR package manager Add php directory to your Windows’ Environment Variables PATH, if it is not already added. My wamp php path is “C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.13”. Check Adding to Environment Variables Path if you are not sure how to add a…
