Retrieve Remote file size with cURL PHP

Here's the best way (that I've found) to get the size of a remote file. Note that HEAD requests don't get the actual body of the request, they just retrieve the headers. So making a HEAD request to a resource that is 100MB will take the same amount of...

By: 4evertutorials On 10/24/2012

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Force file download in PHP

PHP allows you to change the HTTP headers of files, so that you can force a file to be downloaded that normally the browser would load in the same window. This is perfect for files like PDFs, document files, images, and video that you want your visitors to download...

By: 4evertutorials On 10/20/2012

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Block Multiple ip addresses in PHP

Sometimes you need to disallow a visitor to access your website. The most common reason for this is Spammers. Although there are several other solutions to block multiple IP addresses, but in this post we are going to focus on simple php script.<?php /* Online PHP Examples with Source...

By: 4evertutorials On 10/19/2012

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Get URL in PHP

Below is a simple php function that return current page url<?php /* Online PHP Examples with Source Code website: http://4evertutorials.blogspot.in/ */ function currentURL() { $pageURL = 'http'; if ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") {$pageURL .= "s";} $pageURL .= "://"; if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80") { $pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]; } else { $pageURL...

By: 4evertutorials On 10/18/2012

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Date and Time Format like Facebook in PHP

This simple PHP example will return a date and time format like facebook, generated from a mysql datetime field. Input Format: date('Y-m-d H:i:s')<?php /* Online PHP Examples with Source Code website: http://4evertutorials.blogspot.in/ */ function getDateTime($datetime) { $datetime=strtotime($datetime); $yesterday=strtotime(date('Y-m-d', mktime(0,0,0, date("m") , date("d") - 1, date("Y")))); $tomorrow=strtotime(date('Y-m-d', mktime(0,0,0, date("m") ,...

By: 4evertutorials On 10/18/2012

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Mysql Database Connection in PHP

This is a simple example of how you could create a database connection from PHP to MySQL. It is good to save the MySQL Database Connection in a seperate php file in a secure part of the website. Then the file can be referenced in any page that requires...

By: 4evertutorials On 10/18/2012

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Validate Credit Card Number Using PHP

This piece of code will check if a creditcard number could possibly be valid, determined on the number ranges given. It will NOT actually validate the number with the creditcard company but it could function as a pre-check.<?php /* Online PHP Examples with Source Code website: http://4evertutorials.blogspot.in/ */ function...

By: 4evertutorials On 10/13/2012

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Switch between multiple CSS styles sheets with PHP

A lot of webmasters like this nice looking CSS websites with the possibility to switch between different CSS style sheets. This code snippet will help to create the switch. Just create you different style sheets and your universal coded html documents (these one have to work with all the...

By: 4evertutorials On 10/05/2012

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Custom Error Page with .htaccess PHP

Create your own custom error page This custom error page shows some standard error information and reports the error to the webmaster by e-mail. The script works for dead links and will report expired hot links from other sites (the IP address). Just add bad URL's and IP addresses...

By: 4evertutorials On 10/05/2012

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