When you change the URL/URI of a page, a permanent redirection should be set up from the old address to the new address to let user-agents know where it can now be found. When using a web browser the … [Read more...] about 301 redirect with PHP
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Information and howto articles for PHP
PHP is a powerful open source server-sided scripting language that can be used on a wide variety of operating systems and webservers, including Apache on UNIX and IIS on Windows.
PHP contains numerous extensions which enable you to dynamically create images and flash files, parse xml, connect to remote servers using pop, imap, ftp, http and raw sockets, natively access many database servers including PostgreSql, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server, compress and decompress files, lookup domain names and and much more.
PHP has an excellent manual and online documentation which covers every function for every extension available.
How to tell if it’s a leap year with PHP
PHP contains a useful date function which can be used to determine if the current year or a specific year is a leap year. This post looks at how to use the date function to do this.Brief overview of … [Read more...] about How to tell if it’s a leap year with PHP
Set the default font size for phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin is a web based administrative tool for the MySQL database server. After logging in to phpMyAdmin there's a drop down box to select the font size as a percentage which always defaults to … [Read more...] about Set the default font size for phpMyAdmin
Get message body and attachments using PHP IMAP
The last post looked at how to get a message structure using the PHP IMAP functions into an easier to use flat array. This post looks at how to loop through that array to easily get all the message … [Read more...] about Get message body and attachments using PHP IMAP