The HTML mailto is a quick way to add the facility of receiving feedback from visitor on the web site. when the visitor clicked the HTML mailto, It lanuches their email program with new email window. Note: HTML mailto assumes that the visitor has configured an email client (Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger, Thunderbird or any …
Category: PHP
In our PHP session you will learn about PHP, and how to execute scripts on your application
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Nov 24
Find out IP address
We can get the IP address of any visitor by using PHP. Finding the IP address is very important requirement for many scripts where we store the members or visitors details. For security reason we can store IP address of our visitors who are doing any purchases or recording the geographical location of the visitor …
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Nov 23
Send HTML Mail With PHP
Sending html email in php is extremely easy. All you have to do is call the “mail” function with some extra header. Have a look on example: <?php //define the receiver of the email $to = ‘youraddress@example.com’; //define the subject of the email $subject = ‘Test HTML email’; //create a boundary string. It must be unique //so …
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Nov 23
Single quotes, Double quotes
It’s easy to just use double quotes when concatenating strings because it parses everything neatly without having to deal with escaping characters and using dot values. However, using single quotes has considerable performance gains, as it requires less processing. For Example: <?php //Consider this string $howdy = ‘everyone’; $foo = ‘hello $howdy’; $bar = “hello $howdy”; // Concatenating this strings $howdy = ‘everyone’; …
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Nov 23
Scripts Execution Time Limits
Putting a time limit on your PHP scripts is a very critical thing. There are times when your scripts will fail, and when they do, you’ll want to use the set_time_limit function to avoid infinite loops and database connection timeouts. The set_time_limit puts a time limit on the maximum number of seconds a script will …
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Nov 23
Increase PHP Script Execution Time Limit
Every once in a while we need to process a HUGE file. Though PHP probably isn’t the most efficient way of processing the file, we usually use PHP because it makes coding the processing script much faster. To prevent the script from timing out, I need to increase the execution time of the specific processing …
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Nov 22
Refresh / Redirection
When you need your web page automatic refresh in 5 second or any second, use this meta tag. It’s a simple code, put it between HEAD tag in your web page. This script easy but powerful. <HEAD> <meta http-equiv=’refresh’ content=’2;url=’file_name or URL’> </HEAD> // content = time (second) // file_name = name of file you …
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Nov 22
cURL Function
cURL is a library which allows you to connect and communicate to many different types of servers with many different types of protocols. Using cURL you can: Implement payment gateways’ payment notification scripts. Download and upload files from remote servers. Login to other websites and access members only sections. PHP cURL library is definitely the …
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Nov 21
PHP sessions problem
Below are some of the common problems faced by beginners while using sessions in PHP. Headers already sent This is the most commonly faced error is also the easiest to fix. Lets first see what a typical HTTP response looks like. As can see from the image headers always precede (come before) the content. The …
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Nov 21
Set error reporting level to maximum
Configure your development environment to display all PHP warnings, notices and errors. This will help you code better and also help in catching potential bugs early in development phase. You can change the error reporting level at runtime by adding the following code at the top of your PHP script: <?php // Report all PHP …
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