GoDaddy, cURL, HTTP, and 403 Errors

I was recently coding PHP cURL functionality for a GoDaddy-hosted website and I kept running into an annoying 403 error. Essentially, GoDadd...

PHP, SSL, and cURL SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE Errors

I recently developed a complex system for a customer that involved PHP, cURL, and a SSL connection to a third party vendor. The third party ...

Download a URL’s Content Using PHP cURL

Downloading content at a specific URL is common practice on the internet, especially due to increased usage of web services and APIs offered...

Simple PHP Caching and Content Retrieval Function

One way to make your website exponentially faster is by caching both remote and internal requests. Why request your RSS subscriber count fro...

Caching AJAX Results in JavaScript

AJAX is an awesome tool. AJAX requests are usually faster than regular page loads and allow for a wealth of dynamism within a page. Unfortu...

21 Really Useful & Handy PHP Code Snippets

PHP is the most widely used web based programming language that powers millions of websites including some of the most popular ones like Fa...

Retrieve Google Analytics Visits and PageViews with PHP

Google Analytics is an outstanding website analytics tool that gives you way more information about your website than you probably need. Bet...

Reading Excel Documents from PHP applications

In this article we will learn on how we can read Microsoft Excel Sheet in PHP. To achieve this we will be using Open Source Tool PHPExcelRe...

Retrieve Your Gmail Emails Using PHP and IMAP

Grabbing emails from your Gmail account using PHP is probably easier than you think. Armed with PHP and its  IMAP extension , you can retrie...

Facebook type image rotation and more using PHP and Javascript

If you are a facebook geek like me, you must have noticed till now the image rotate functionality in the photo albums. Facebook allows you t...

AJAX User Poll Using jQuery and PHP

Today, we’ll be creating a nice user poll script using jQuery and PHP utilizing AJAX and animation effects of jQuery to spice up the user i...

Multiple File Upload With Progress Bar Using php and jQuery

The default browser file input boxes do not allow multiple file selection for uploading at once and also do not provide any visual clue as ...

Open Source Human Resource Management System using PHP and Mysql

It’s of course built in PHP and runs a MySQL database so it’s all web based running on the apache server. It’s currently in version 2.3 as i...

Inventory management system (IMS) using php and Mysql

Inventory Management Software: Having problems with keeping an  accurate inventory ? Web-based  inventory management  makes it easy to keep ...

Plotting line graph using PHP GD Support

Reading data from the mysql table  To use line graph we are using data from mysql table. We will not discuss much on how to get data and the...

Getting technorati ranking in PHP without using their API

I was going through the T echnorati  API to find the rank of the blog using PHP. Those who doesn’t know about Technorati, Technorati is kno...

Web Services and PHP – SOAP vs XML-RPC vs REST

In a typical web surfing scenario, a visitor visits a website and use the functionality provided by that particular website.HTTP request is...

Force download multiple files in a zip archive using PHP

I’ll show you how can you download the multiples files in a zip archive using PHP. I’ve made a function in PHP where you’ve to pass the par...

6 free ajax chat applications using PHP

While talking about chat application, these days people hate those kind application made in PHP which need page refreshing. In this post, I...

Paging Using PHP and MySQL

When there's more than one column involved in paging there isn't much that we need to modify. We only need to decide how to count t...

Finding PHP and MySQL Hosting

There are a lot of things to consider when choosing a web hosting company. But one thing for sure is that  price   is no longer important ....

Read HTML files using PHP

Reading an html file is just like reading any other file. You could use  fopen()  combined with  fread()  or file_get_contents()  or  file...

Executing a Shell Command Using PHP

You can use either  system()  or  exec() . Just remember to ALWAYS use the full path to the command. So instead of entering  'top -n1...

List a Directory's Contents Using PHP

To list the content of a directory you just need to use the combination of  opendir()  and  readdir()  functions.

User Authentication with Image Verification using php

In some cases you may want your loging form to be able to prevent automatic login by a robot ( script ). To achieve this we can create a lo...

Append a String to a File Using PHP

To append a string to a file you will need to open the file using  fopen()  with the 'a' parameter. For example if your log file nam...

Content Management System ( CMS ) using PHP and MySQL

A Content Management System ( CMS ) is used to add, edit, and delete content on a website. For a small website, such as this, adding and de...

Http Client Class for PHP development

This class is designed to provide quick http reqest method to access external website. A CURL alternative to php native file_get_contents m...

Convert a Multidimensional Array Into Single Dimension using php

I have wrapped three static functions for converting multidimensional configuration data. It is very much useful when working with configur...

Free PHP Encryption Software

A software developer is faced with a potential troublesome issue. When all the programming is done, and it's time to distribute the actu...

Display random number in random way using JavaScript

I think you guys already know about how to get the random number using JavaScript, if you don’t know then you can use Math.random() to displ...

Php function to validate two decimal places of a number

If you are looking for the validation of a number which contains only two decimal places. Means you want to accept the values like  0.21  o...

Email address validation in PHP

you’ve been asking why this person has posted the same stuff which you can find easily in google. Ya you are right you can get lots of scri...