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Category: PHP

Written by 24/01/2007

Sample of search engine for multiple tables

PHP Article

Searching a string within a table is quite easy, but searching within multiple tables in a database need a little trick. I know it’s not the good one, perhaps everybody who read this can share yours too 😉 Example: We have 3 tables with different content and structures for 3 different pages (News, Articles, Products)

Written by 13/12/2006

Shorten Code for Inserting Random Invisible Character

PHP Article

This post is related correction to my previous one, inserting invisible random character inbetween words to avoid copy-paste doer. I wrote a function to insert invisible random character inbetween words, and it used looped str_replace() to seek for the whitespaces. And I realize it’s not good for a very long texts, because the process will

Written by 07/12/2006

Invisible text using PHP

PHP Article

This time, let’s try to insert single character with same color as the background inbetween words. This method will avoid visitor to copy paste text from your homepage because they will get a buch of un-understood words. This is cool (in my own opinion), I insert/replace any white space with single character, and set the

Written by 02/12/2006

Create Thumbnail on The Fly Using PHP and GD

PHP Article

Here’s a cool script I use to resize picture on the fly. I don’t wanna loose any space in my server, so instead of creating a real thumbnail file, I generate a thumbnail on the fly. First, specify the HTTP header. < ?php header("Content-type: image/jpeg"); Then, this is the formula to resize the image with

Written by 21/11/2006

Kilabret – The Reverse Text generator

PHP Article

Started from strange topic in diskusiweb.com, I write down this tiny script to reverse and un-reverse the text written there. If you type kamen rider, it will return nemak redir. Sound cool right? < ?php // save it as reverse.php foreach($argv as $arg){ if($arg == $argv[0]) continue; echo strrev($arg)." "; } ?> Now let’s give

Written by 14/11/2006

PHP-CLI Introduction-Part-One

PHP Article

PHP CLI? What kinda food is that? Don’t get mad with any “PHP variation” because PHP-CLI is a very simple thing. CLI stands from Command Line Interface. That means PHP that run from command line. You can mention MS DOS in Windows or console/shell in Linux platform. No need web server anymore because we aren’t

Written by 08/11/2006

Silly Me: MD5 Feature on PHPMyAdmin

PHP Article

Today, I lost forget a password that I stored in my local database (MySQL). The password was hashed using MD5 so I can’t read it using PHPMyAdmin. So, I decided to create new hash using MD5 too. I use this script to do same thing since few months ago: < ?php // usage: php.exe md5.php

Written by 07/11/2006

Resize Image And Create Thumbnail With Aspect Ratio

PHP Article

Here’s a little script how to create thumbnail with PHP and GD library and still keeping aspect ratio. You only need to specify new image’s maximum width and height. By default, it will create a maximum 110×110 pixel, both width or height, depend on which is longer. < ?php /* Function to create thumbnail from

Written by 31/10/2006

PHP Already Have My Function Listed Here

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I’ve written a function to fetch a file from remote server and store it into a string here: https://dev.sandalian.com/baca/4/get-content-of-url-into-string-variable.htm. Then today I realized that PHP already have that function! 😀 The function is called get_file_contents(). So, my function is officially deprecated now 😀

Written by 30/10/2006

Rename Files Into All Lowercase

PHP Article

I wrote this script when my Windows 98 screwed up my filename. It was index.php and changed into Index.php, in a big number of files within a directory 🙁 < ?php // I name it caser.php $handle = opendir($argv[1]); while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {

Written by 19/10/2006

Copy Remote File Into Local Directory

PHP Article

Here is a little function used to copy file from remote directory (web server) into our local directory. < ?php /* This function used to copy remote file into local disk Example: copyFile("https://test-server.com/file/movie.mpg","myfolder/"); */ function copyFile($url,$dirname){ @$file = fopen ($url, "rb"); if (!$file) { echo "Failed to copy $url !"; return false; } else {

Written by 17/10/2006

Paralel Process In PHP

PHP Article

In my own experience, paralelizing process in PHP is alot efficient. Not saving your time, but it will save memory usage. I use paralel method when working with several task at once. For example, fetching several RSS feeds. Let’s give it a try. Sample case, we must fetch data from 5 (five) rss feeds. <

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