In one of my ongoing projects i had to set up a “catch-all” email parsing script. Here’s how it came out to be. What is catch-all? In the context of emails, “catch-all” refers to a destination to which all incoming…
Category: PHP
Form DOM element not recognized (created) in ajax form in IE when placed with end tag missing
Skipping a form end tag </form> costed me almost a day (i had to go to bed abandoning the fixing for some time though;)). I had been using ajaxForm with jQuery to submit ajax form which was placed on a…
Setting execution time and memory limits in php
When executing large amount of data through php scripts it is common facing errors like “Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded..”. Also, sometimes uploading large files through php scripts you might face errors like “The uploaded file…
Better way to write php code – part 2
With the help of an example i would explain a very common but erroneous approach new php developers seem to follow (i have seen some ‘old’ ones repeating the same error though). Here it is,
Better way to write php code – part 1
A few tips on writing php code that can save a php developer a lot of future troubles and “huffs and puffs” occurring due to different php compiler settings, changing of hosting environment etc. Here is first one.
Clear template cache in x-cart
Have you been making changing into a smarty template file (within x-cart and perhaps independently as well) for long and the changes would not come up at all? Who could tell better how frustrating this can be! The simplest and…
Resetting array keys after unsettling a few of them
I have felt this need quite a few times in the past as well. I have an array:
MYSQL custom sorting – order by field value
In this simple example I will show you a way to perform a custom sorting in MySQL. In this guide of custom sorting I am going to sort mysql rows based on the alphabetical order of the field values. Most…
Spliting CSV (comma seperated) entry grouped by double quotes
By using fgetcsv function we can have well formatted output for csv data without any pain. If you don’t want to use fgetcsv function for some reason and your CSV comma separated entries may contain comma inside except the delimiters,…
To find mysql recodrs between specific date range based on start date and end date fields
While working on a report generation system i had to perform a query to check whether records exist in ‘reports’ table between a date range received from two form fields “start_date” and “end_date”. To make it more specific i will…
