Installing and uninstalling PHP extensions using PECL
PECL is a repository for PHP Extensions. It provide a directory which contains numerous PHP extensions and hosting facilities where…
What is the difference between include, include_once, require, and require_once in PHP
PHP provides four functions which enable you to insert code from other files. * include()* require()* include_once()* require_once() All four…
How to encrypt a string in PHP
The following code encrypts a string. crypt() function encrypts the string. The last line prints the encrypted string. There is…
PHP Unit Testing with SimpleTest
What is Unit Testing Most developers agree that testing is important but few test their code. Even fever do it…
Installing and using phpDocumentor on Ubuntu
phpDocumentor is a tool which creates complete documentation like Javadocs for PHP code. Installing phpDocumentor Install libraries. Restart Apache. Install…
How to setup virtual lamp stack on Microsoft Windows
Oracle’s VirtualBox is a very solid and stable virtual machine but it isn’t the simplest to work with. So I…
PHP: How to create csv files
It is very easy to create a csv file using PHP. All you need to do is create a two…
PHP code to Scrape tags from an HTML page
Following code uses DOM to extract links. This code scrapes image and anchor links. This code can be extended to…
How to parse a sentence in PHP
A sentence can be parsed in many different ways in PHP. A few methods are presented here along with their…
Quick Introduction to JSON
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is a lightweight standard for data interchange. It offers several advantages over XML for data interchange…