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Change default php.ini values using .htaccess

Hey Folks, As you might be knowing that php.ini is the configuration file for the PHP and resides at the server. It contains all the options/settings for the PHP language. There are instances you need to change these options. In local environment you can change these settings very easily b

Check username availability and validation using ajax,php

So you are creating a signup form and you want to create a fancy looking username validation Ajax script. I know that looks fancy when you signup for Gmail or Yahoo mailbox, instead these kind of validation are now on every signup form. We are going to create this simple script using Javascript, A

Magic methods in PHP

PHP has lot of magic stored in it. Magic methods in PHP is one way to witness it. These methods are executed automatically on certain event or situation. The function names __construct, __destruct, __get, __set etc are known as magic methods in PHP classes. That means these function names are reserv

How to shorten and get stats of a URL from bit.ly API using PHP

Hey Geeks, So in the era of shortening URLs you lost the track what users are coming from where and what is the original source of traffic. Well there is nothing to worry since bit.ly keeps track of all your URL which are shortened by its API. Bit.ly not only shortens the long URL of your webpage

Post pictures on twitpic API using PHP

Hey Folks, In this post we are going to learn, How you can post picture to twitpic.com using the API services provided. It is very simple to send request to the API and post the picture on twitpic. You can also specify if you want to tweet about the picture to your twitter's timeline or no. The f

Send binary data using curl php

In this post , you will learn how you can send binary data through cURL in php. You might want to send binary data like image in some of the API calls viz Picasa API, Twitpic API etc. If you send the image file as it is, it will passed to the API request as passed over the http, using content-type

Dynamically display twitter display image of a user

You might have wondered as to how a blog or a web-page displays you twitter image when you leave a comment there ? Well there is no rocket science involved in it and I planned why not create a small class for you through which you can show off little extra of your twitter love to the visitors. We

Get data from a URL using cURL PHP

Hey Folks, There are times when you need to fetch data from certain URL. This URL can give you RSS feeds or it can be a JSON data. But while writing a script you may often face challenge to fetch the contents from the URL. Some programmers use file_get_contents() function of PHP to get the data f

Wrap text when creating images on the fly in php

Hey People, Wonder how could you insert line breaks, or make your string wrappable when you are creating images on the fly in php. I bet before you hopped in here, you must have tried inserting \n,\r,<br> using function wordwrap(); However its slightly different and the strings on images a

logging 404 errors on your site and generating traffic from it

Hiya People, Its really a pain when visitors come down to your blog and they see "Sorry, but you are looking for something that is not here." The message can be anything, but top of everything it is nothing but a fail message. And consequently, many of your potential visitors may bounce off yo

Integrating Google Analytics in Mediawiki

In this post, we will talk about how to hack the Mediawiki Template to include Google Analytics without tracking the sysop user. The better way is, obviously, to use the GoogleAnalytics Extension (which would be discussed in a later post). This hack applies to Mediawiki 1.9.3+ In the mediawiki/

How to send tweet message on twitter using php

Hey Folks, I have written a complete class which sends tweet and performs other stuff on twitter from following user to deleting Direct messages etc. But its just that I am not able to post the whole class here and explain it. I am gonna release a beta version of the class pretty soon with comple

Create image in PHP using GD with different font , size

Heya, It is going to be pretty basic tutorial. I am gonna write the advanced or the other ones in the next tutorials. Here is a simple code in php which creates a image on the fly. This code is so simple,but i have written comment before each line to help you understand the flow of the code.

How to use HTTP_POST_VARS in php

HTTP_POST_VARS was a very useful global array, but we dont use it these days. I do not understand or i did not find time to research if it has been discontinued or had some problem. But it was quite a nice array which stored all the fields and their values of a html form into a key-value pair array

calculating time difference in PHP

Date and time is one function which is always like there in whatever website, project you create. The more simple they look like to start with the more complex they become. Complexity comes in when we put these functions into different loops conditions etc. Well Today i got a bug in some code and it

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