PHP GOOD OR BAD – AN OVERVIEW

I was thinking since quiet of time, why i found so much php haters over internet community. I also worked on php and some other php frameworks like drupal, WordPress etc. I personally found php a easy language to start with. It could be very emotional question to ask any php developer about PHP VS any other programming language.

AS we know, PHP is being used by more than 80% websites over internet. PHP frameworks and cms like wordpress, drupal , joomla, cake, codeigniter, magneto are being used in many high tech websites. Facebook – the biggest social network and Wikipedia are in PHP. PHP is good for websites and web applications only. Sometimes i also found php code became dirty and very hard to maintain. But it depends, how you are writing code.

I will suggest a newbie to learn php along with html and css to develop dynamic webpages. Because its very easy to start with and understand the web development process. LAMP stack is very popular in web development. Linux Apache Mysql and P – PHP or Python. (Please comment if i am missing something).

Every language has some pros and cons like this PHP has some pros and cons too. I am going to list some advantages points about PHP-

Advantages –

1 -PHP having a huge documentation php.net. You can start in very easy way. It has big open source community, you will find all your answers by just googling.

2 -It’s very easy to install, you can use WAMP or XAMPP as sever with mysql database inbuild.

3 -CMS solves most of problems easily. WordPress ,drupal , joomle etc are php built in cms for creating website quickly. All cms have large community to get help.

4- You will get lots of tutorials and blogs to get help while doing php programming. So, you will never feel in any problem.

5- PHP supports OOPS to write maintainable and clean code.

6- You will get major hosting support for php websites.

7 – PHP 5.3 is improved version over the last one.

8 -PHP is most discussed languages over the internet.

9 -You will found more job opening in php other than any programming language. PHP is not secure but a good programmer takes care of all security parameters while writing the code.

I will not write bad parts of PHP because we the programmers write bad or ugly code. So, we should cleverly solve the issues while blaming languages.

Please write in comments – PHP bad or good.. Thanks.

10+ Useful PHP Code Snippets For Developers in 2015

Every PHP developer, programmer and web developer requires php snippets as these offer a variety of handy functions which can ultimately end up saving you time. The other way to explain code snippet is that these are a set of commands that can help you save time fulfilling laser-precision tasks in the quickest possible way.

The PHP code snippets have friendly structure which makes them easy to use. Every good developer need to be more productive and give quick results for which to have a set of resourceful snippets is necessary for specific task. At TGZ we are sharing some “Useful PHP Code Snippets for Developers” which contains innumerable useful php code snippets which every developer needs to have in their “toolbox”.

So have a look on “10+ Useful PHP Code Snippets for Developers”.

Using PHPMailer To Send HTML Emails With Images

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<?php

require("class.phpmailer.php");

$mail = new PHPMailer();$mail = new PHPMailer();

$mail->IsSMTP();

$mail->Host = "smtp1.example.com;smtp2.example.com";

$mail->SMTPAuth = true;

$mail->Username = 'smtpusername';

$mail->Password = 'smtppassword';

$mail->From="mailer@example.com";

$mail->FromName="My site's mailer";

$mail->Sender="mailer@example.com";

$mail->AddReplyTo("replies@example.com", "Replies for my site");

$mail->AddAddress("email@example.com");

$mail->Subject = "Test 1";

$mail->IsHTML(true);

$mail->AddEmbeddedImage('logo.jpg', 'logoimg', 'logo.jpg'); // attach file logo.jpg, and later link to it using identfier logoimg

$mail->Body = "<h1>Test 1 of PHPMailer html</h1>

    <p>This is a test picture: <img src=\"cid:logoimg\" /></p>";

$mail->AltBody="This is text only alternative body.";

if(!$mail->Send())

{

   echo "Error sending: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;;

}

else

{

   echo "Letter is sent";

}

?>

Get Country By IP Address in PHP

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<?php

function getLocationInfoByIp(){

 $client = @$_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];

 $forward = @$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];

 $remote = @$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

 $result = array('country'=>'', 'city'=>'');

 if(filter_var($client, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP)){

 $ip = $client;

 }elseif(filter_var($forward, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP)){

 $ip = $forward;

 }else{

 $ip = $remote;

 }

 $ip_data = @json_decode

(file_get_contents("http://www.geoplugin.net/json.gp?ip=".$ip));

 if($ip_data && $ip_data->geoplugin_countryName != null){

 $result['country'] = $ip_data->geoplugin_countryCode;

 $result['city'] = $ip_data->geoplugin_city;

 }

 return $result;

}

?>

Get users’ IP Address with PHP

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function getRealIpAddr()

{

 if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'])) //check ip from share internet

 {

 $ip=$_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];

 }

 elseif (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'])) //to check ip is pass from proxy

 {

 $ip=$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];

 }

 else

 {

 $ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

 }

 return $ip;

}

Get short urls for Twitter with PHP

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<?php

function getShortUrl($url){

 return file_get_contents('http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$url);

}

?>

Short URL Function with PHP

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<?php

function shorturl($url){

 $length = strlen($url);

 if($length > 45){

 $length = $length - 30;

 $first = substr($url, 0, -$length);

 $last = substr($url, -15);

 $new = $first."[ ... ]".$last;

 return $new;

 }else{

 return $url;

 }

}

?>

// USAGE

<?php

$longurl= "http://www.google.com/search?q=symfony+project&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:tr:official&client=firefox-a";

$shorturl = shorturl($longurl);

echo "<a href=\"$longurl\">$shorturl</a>";

?>

url, email and ip validation with php

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<?php

function is_valid_url($url){

 $p1 ='/(http|https|ftp):\/\/[a-z0-9-]+(.[a-z0-9-]+)*(:[0-9]+)?(\/.*)?$/i';

 return preg_match($p1, $url);

}

function is_valid_email($email){

 if (filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))

 return true;

 else

 return false;

}

function is_valid_ip($ip){

 if (filter_var($ip, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP))

 return true;

 else

 return false;

}

?>

username, password and date validation with php

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<?php

function is_valid_username($username){

// accepted username length between 5 and 20

 if (preg_match('/^\w{5,20}$/', $username))

 return true;

 else

 return false;

}

function is_valid_password($pwd){

// accepted password length between 5 and 20, start with character.

 if (preg_match("/^[a-zA-Z][0-9a-zA-Z_!$@#^&]{5,20}$/", $pwd))

 return true;

 else

 return false;

}

function is_valid_date($date){

//============ date format dd-mm-yyyy

if(preg_match("/^(\d{2})-(\d{2})-(\d{4})$/", $date, $sdate))

 if(checkdate($sdate[2], $sdate[1], $sdate[3]))

 return true;

}

?>

Unzip a Zip File

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<?php

 function unzip($location,$newLocation){

 if(exec("unzip $location",$arr)){

 mkdir($newLocation);

 for($i = 1;$i< count($arr);$i++){

 $file = trim(preg_replace("~inflating: ~","",$arr[$i]));

 copy($location.'/'.$file,$newLocation.'/'.$file);

 unlink($location.'/'.$file);

 }

 return TRUE;

 }else{

 return FALSE;

 }

 }

?>

//Use the code as following:

<?php

include 'functions.php';

if(unzip('zipedfiles/test.zip','unziped/myNewZip'))

 echo 'Success!';

else

 echo 'Error';

?>

Generate An Authentication Code in PHP

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<?php

# This particular code will generate a random string

# that is 25 charicters long 25 comes from the number

# that is in the for loop

$string = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789";

for($i=0;$i<25;$i++){

 $pos = rand(0,36);

 $str .= $string{$pos};

}

echo $str;

# If you have a database you can save the string in

# there, and send the user an email with the code in

# it they then can click a link or copy the code

# and you can then verify that that is the correct email

# or verify what ever you want to verify

?>

Validate email Address

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function is_valid_email($email, $test_mx = false)

{

 if(eregi("^([_a-z0-9-]+)(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@([a-z0-9-]+)(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,4})$", $email))

 if($test_mx)

 {

 list($username, $domain) = split("@", $email);

 return getmxrr($domain, $mxrecords);

 }

 else

 return true;

 else

 return false;

}

WordPress – Scheduling Posts for RSS

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function publish_later_on_feed($where) {

 global $wpdb;

 if(is_feed()) {

 // timestamp in WP-format

 $now = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s');

 // value for wait; + device

 $wait = '5'; // integer

 // http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_timestampdiff

 $device = 'MINUTE'; //MINUTE, HOUR, DAY, WEEK, MONTH, YEAR

 // add SQL-sytax to default $where

 $where .= " AND TIMESTAMPDIFF($device, $wpdb->posts.post_date_gmt, '$now') > $wait ";

 }

 return $where;

}

add_filter('posts_where', 'publish_later_on_feed');

Facebook Comments for WordPress

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<div id="fb-root"></div>

<script>(function(d, s, id) {

var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];

if (d.getElementById(id)) return;

js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;

js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=Your App ID Here";

fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);

}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script>

<meta property="fb:app_id" content="Your App ID Here"/>

<div data-href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" data-num-posts="2" data-width="470" data-colorscheme="light" data-mobile="false"></div>

// Get combined FB and WordPress comment count

function get_full_comment_count() {

global $post;

$url = get_permalink($post->ID);

$filecontent = file_get_contents('https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=' . $url);

$json = json_decode($filecontent);

$count = $json->$url->comments;

$wpCount = get_comments_number();

$realCount = $count + $wpCount;

if ($realCount == 0 || !isset($realCount)) {

$realCount = 0;

}

return $realCount;

}

function the_full_comment_count() {

$realCount = get_full_comment_count();

echo $realCount;

}

The Real Way To Check Uploaded File Type

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<?php

// Here we specify all the type of files we want to accept

$extension = array("application/pdf", "image/jpeg", "image/png", "image/gif");

if(isset($_POST['submit'])){

    exec("file -i ".$_FILES['inputName']['tmp_name'], $output);

    $type = explode(':', (string)$output[0]);

}

// Here we check our file with our needs

if (isset($_FILES['inputName']) &&

        $_FILES['inputName']['error'] == UPLOAD_ERR_OK  &&

        $_FILES['inputName']['size'] <= 10000000 &&

        in_array(trim($type[1]), $extension)){

        var_dump($_FILES['inputName']['tmp_name']);

}else{

    die("File Error");

}

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