46 Useful PHP Code Snippets

46 useful PHP code Snippets that can help you with your PHP projects - 07-06-2015
by Mohit Madan - KOONK Technologies - http://blog.koonk.com
46 useful PHP code Snippets that can help you with your PHP
projects
by Mohit Madan - Monday, July 06, 2015
http://blog.koonk.com/2015/07/46-useful-php-code-snippets-that-can-help-you-with-your-php-projects/
Its always good to have a magic hat while writing code. Below I have compiled 40+ PHP code snippets
that can help you with your PHP Projects.
These PHP code snippets can come handy even if you are just beginning to learn PHP. So, let's get
started.
1. Sending sms
While working on web or mobile applications, you often face a situation where you need to send an SMS
to your user either for login purposes or providing them with some information. The below PHP function
would help you with it.
For sending SMS using any language, you'd need an SMS gateway. Most of the SMS providers these
days provide with an API. For the below PHP snippet, I am using MSG91 as SMS gateway.
function send_sms($mobile,$msg)
{
$authKey = "XXXXXXXXXXX";
date_default_timezone_set("Asia/Kolkata");
$date = strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S");
//Multiple mobiles numbers separated by comma
$mobileNumber = $mobile;
//Sender ID,While using route4 sender id should be 6 characters long.
$senderId = "IKOONK";
//Your message to send, Add URL encoding here.
$message = urlencode($msg);
//Define route
$route = "template";
//Prepare you post parameters
$postData = array(
'authkey' => $authKey,
'mobiles' => $mobileNumber,
'message' => $message,
'sender' => $senderId,
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'route' => $route

);
//API URL
$url="https://control.msg91.com/sendhttp.php";
// init the resource
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
CURLOPT_URL => $url,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_POST => true,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $postData
//,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true
));
//Ignore SSL certificate verification

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
//get response
$output = curl_exec($ch);
//Print error if any
if(curl_errno($ch))
{
echo 'error:' . curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);
}
You'd see that I have highlighted two lines. On the first highlighted line you need to enter your passkey
and on the second you need to enter your senderID. While entering mobile number you need to specify
the country code (For example, USA's country code is 1. India's country code is 91).
Syntax:
<?php
$message = "Hello World";
$mobile = "918112998787";
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send_sms($mobile,$message);
?>
2. SENDIng email WITH mandrill

Mandrill is a powerful SMTP provider. Developers tend to use a third party SMTP provider for better
inbox deliveries.
For the below function you would have to put a file "Mandrill.php" in the same folder as the PHP file you
would be using to send emails.
function send_email($to_email,$subject,$message1)
{
require_once 'Mandrill.php';
$apikey = 'XXXXXXXXXX'; //specify your api key here
$mandrill = new Mandrill($apikey);
$message = new stdClass();
$message->html = $message1;
$message->text = $message1;
$message->subject = $subject;
$message->from_email = "blog@koonk.com";//Sender Email
$message->from_name = "KOONK";//Sender Name
$message->to = array(array("email" => $to_email));
$message->track_opens = true;
$response = $mandrill->messages->send($message);
}
In the above code you would have to specify your own api key that you get from your Mandrill account.
Syntax
<?php
$to = "abc@example.com";
$subject = "This is a test email";
$message = "Hello World!";
send_email($to,$subject,$message);
?>
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For best deliveries, I would recommend you to configure DNS settings as guided by Mandrill.
3. PHP function to help prevent sql injection

SQL injection or SQLi is a common technique used to hack into a website. Using the below code can help
you prevent it.
function clean($input)
{
if (is_array($input))
{
foreach ($input as $key => $val)
{
$output[$key] = clean($val);
// $output[$key] = $this->clean($val);
}
}
else
{
$output = (string) $input;
// if magic quotes is on then use strip slashes
if (get_magic_quotes_gpc())
{
$output = stripslashes($output);
}
// $output = strip_tags($output);
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$output = htmlentities($output, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');

}
// return the clean text
return $output;
}
Syntax
<?php
$text = "<script>alert(1)</script>";
$text = clean($text);
echo $text;
?>
Had we not used the clean function above, the page would have popped up an alert box.
4. detect location of the user

Using the below function you can check the city from which the user is visiting your website.
function detect_city($ip) {
$default = 'UNKNOWN';
$curlopt_useragent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1;
en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)';
$url = 'http://ipinfodb.com/ip_locator.php?ip=' . urlencode($i
p);
$ch = curl_init();
$curl_opt = array(
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => 1,
CURLOPT_HEADER
=> 0,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
CURLOPT_USERAGENT
=> $curlopt_useragent,
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CURLOPT_URL
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT
CURLOPT_REFERER
=> $url,
=> 1,
=> 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST
'],
);
curl_setopt_array($ch, $curl_opt);
$content = curl_exec($ch);
if (!is_null($curl_info)) {
$curl_info = curl_getinfo($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);
if ( preg_match('{<li>City : ([^<]*)</li>}i', $content, $regs)
)
{
$city = $regs[1];
}
if ( preg_match('{<li>State/Province : ([^<]*)</li>}i', $conte
nt, $regs) ) {
$state = $regs[1];
}
if( $city!='' && $state!='' ){
$location = $city . ', ' . $state;
return $location;
}else{
return $default;
}
}
Syntax
<?php
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$city = detect_city($ip);
echo $city;
?>
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5. get the source code of a webpage

Using the function below you would be able to get the HTML code of any webpage.
function display_sourcecode($url)
{
$lines = file($url);
$output = "";
foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {
// loop thru each line and prepend line numbers
$output.= "Line #{$line_num} : " . htmlspecialchars($line) . "
 \n";
}
}
Syntax
<?php
$url = "http://blog.koonk.com";
$source = display_sourcecode($url);
echo $source;
?>
6. show number of people who have liked YOUR facebook page

function fb_fan_count($facebook_name)
{
$data = json_decode(file_get_contents("https://graph.facebook.com/
".$facebook_name));
$likes = $data->likes;
return $likes;
}
Syntax
<?php
$page = "koonktechnologies";
$count = fb_fan_count($page);
echo $count;
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?>
7. determine dominant color of any image

function dominant_color($image)
{
$i = imagecreatefromjpeg($image);
for ($x=0;$x<imagesx($i);$x++) {
for ($y=0;$y<imagesy($i);$y++) {
$rgb = imagecolorat($i,$x,$y);
$r
= ($rgb >> 16) & 0xFF;
$g
= ($rgb >> & 0xFF;
$b
= $rgb & 0xFF;
$rTotal += $r;
$gTotal += $g;
$bTotal += $b;
$total++;
}
}
$rAverage = round($rTotal/$total);
$gAverage = round($gTotal/$total);
$bAverage = round($bTotal/$total);
}
8. whois query
Using the below function you would be able to get complete details regarding the owner of any domain.
function whois_query($domain) {
// fix the domain name:
$domain = strtolower(trim($domain));
$domain = preg_replace('/^http:\/\//i', '', $domain);
$domain = preg_replace('/^www\./i', '', $domain);
$domain = explode('/', $domain);
$domain = trim($domain[0]);
// split the TLD from domain name
$_domain = explode('.', $domain);
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$lst = count($_domain)-1;
$ext = $_domain[$lst];
// You find resources and lists
// like these on wikipedia:
//
// http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whois
//
$servers = array(
"biz" => "whois.neulevel.biz",
"com" => "whois.internic.net",
"us" => "whois.nic.us",
"coop" => "whois.nic.coop",
"info" => "whois.nic.info",
"name" => "whois.nic.name",
"net" => "whois.internic.net",
"gov" => "whois.nic.gov",
"edu" => "whois.internic.net",
"mil" => "rs.internic.net",
"int" => "whois.iana.org",
"ac" => "whois.nic.ac",
"ae" => "whois.uaenic.ae",
"at" => "whois.ripe.net",
"au" => "whois.aunic.net",
"be" => "whois.dns.be",
"bg" => "whois.ripe.net",
"br" => "whois.registro.br",
"bz" => "whois.belizenic.bz",
"ca" => "whois.cira.ca",
"cc" => "whois.nic.cc",
"ch" => "whois.nic.ch",
"cl" => "whois.nic.cl",
"cn" => "whois.cnnic.net.cn",
"cz" => "whois.nic.cz",
"de" => "whois.nic.de",
"fr" => "whois.nic.fr",
"hu" => "whois.nic.hu",
"ie" => "whois.domainregistry.ie",
"il" => "whois.isoc.org.il",
"in" => "whois.ncst.ernet.in",
"ir" => "whois.nic.ir",
"mc" => "whois.ripe.net",
"to" => "whois.tonic.to",
"tv" => "whois.tv",
"ru" => "whois.ripn.net",
"org" => "whois.pir.org",
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"aero" => "whois.information.aero",

"nl" => "whois.domain-registry.nl"
);
if (!isset($servers[$ext])){
die('Error: No matching nic server found!');
}
$nic_server = $servers[$ext];
$output = '';
// connect to whois server:
if ($conn = fsockopen ($nic_server, 43)) {
fputs($conn, $domain."\r\n");
while(!feof($conn)) {
$output .= fgets($conn,128);
}
fclose($conn);
}
else { die('Error: Could not connect to ' . $nic_server . '!'); }
return $output;
}
Syntax
<?php
$domain = "http://www.blog.koonk.com";
$result = whois_query($domain);
print_r($result);
?>
9. validate email address

Sometimes, while filling forms on your website, a user can mistype his email address. Using the below
function you can check if the email provided by user is in correct format.
function is_validemail($email)
{
$check = 0;
if(filter_var($email,FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))
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{
$check = 1;
}
return $check;
}
Syntax
<?php
$email = "blog@koonk.com";
$check = is_validemail($email);
echo $check;
// If the output is 1, then email is valid.
?>
10. get real ip address of user

function getRealIpAddr()
{
if (!emptyempty($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']))
{
$ip=$_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];
}
elseif (!emptyempty($_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;
}
Syntax
<?php
$ip = getRealIpAddr();
echo $ip;
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?>
11. Convert url in a string to hyperlinks

If you are working with forums, blogs or even a normal form submission, many times you end us asking
user for a website. Using the function, the URL string would automatically convert to a hyperlink.
function makeClickableLinks($text)
{
$text = eregi_replace('(((f|ht){1}tp://)[-a-zAZ0-9@:%_+.~#?&//=]+)',
'<a href="\1">\1</a>', $text);
$text = eregi_replace('([[:space:]()[{}])(www.[-a-zAZ0-9@:%_+.~#?&//=]+)',
'\1<a href="http://\2">\2</a>', $text);
$text = eregi_replace('([_.0-9a-z-]+@([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]+.)+[az]{2,3})',
'<a href="mailto:\1">\1</a>', $text);
return $text;
}
Syntax
<?php
$text = "This is my first post on http://blog.koonk.com";
$text = makeClickableLinks($text);
echo $text;
?>
12. block multiple ip from accessing your website

This snippet can come in handy if you want to restrict your website from a certain location or from
certain users.
if ( !file_exists('blocked_ips.txt') ) {
$deny_ips = array(
'127.0.0.1',
'192.168.1.1',
'83.76.27.9',
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'192.168.1.163'
);
} else {
$deny_ips = file('blocked_ips.txt');
}
// read user ip adress:
$ip = isset($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) ? trim($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) :
'';
// search current IP in $deny_ips array
if ( (array_search($ip, $deny_ips))!== FALSE ) {
// address is blocked:
echo 'Your IP adress ('.$ip.') was blocked!';
exit;
}
13. forceful downloading of file

If you want certain files to download instead of opening in new tab, you can use the below snippet.
function force_download($file)
{
$dir
= "../log/exports/";
if ((isset($file))&&(file_exists($dir.$file))) {
header("Content-type: application/force-download");
header('ContentDisposition: inline; filename="' . $dir.$file . '"');
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary");
header("Content-length: ".filesize($dir.$file));
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('ContentDisposition: attachment; filename="' . $file . '"');
readfile("$dir$file");
} else {
echo "No file selected";
}
}
Syntax
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<php
force_download("image.jpg");
?>
14. CREATING json data

Using below PHP snippet you can create JSON data. This will come handy when you are creating web
services for mobile apps.
$json_data = array ('id'=>1,'name'=>"Mohit");
echo json_encode($json_data);
15. zipping a file

Using the below PHP snippet you would be able to zip files instantly.
function create_zip($files = array(),$destination = '',$overwrite = fa
lse) {
//if the zip file already exists and overwrite is false, return fa
lse
if(file_exists($destination) && !$overwrite) { return false; }
//vars
$valid_files = array();
//if files were passed in...
if(is_array($files)) {
//cycle through each file
foreach($files as $file) {
//make sure the file exists
if(file_exists($file)) {
$valid_files[] = $file;
}
}
}
//if we have good files...
if(count($valid_files)) {
//create the archive
$zip = new ZipArchive();
if($zip->open($destination,$overwrite ? ZIPARCHIVE::OVERWRITE
: ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE) !== true) {
return false;
}
//add the files
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foreach($valid_files as $file) {
$zip->addFile($file,$file);
}
//debug
//echo 'The zip archive contains ',$zip->numFiles,' files with
a status of ',$zip->status;
//close the zip -- done!
$zip->close();
//check to make sure the file exists
return file_exists($destination);
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
Syntax
<?php
$files=array('file1.jpg', 'file2.jpg', 'file3.gif');
create_zip($files, 'myzipfile.zip', true);
?>
16. unzipping a file

Using the below PHP snippet you would be able to unzip a file on the fly.
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{
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return FALSE;
}
}
Syntax
<?php
unzip('test.zip','unziped/test'); //File would be unzipped in unziped/
test folder
?>
17. php snippet to resize image

Sometimes client can upload a large image and you might want to resize it. Below PHP snippet would
enable you to do that.
function resize_image($filename, $tmpname, $xmax, $ymax)
{
$ext = explode(".", $filename);
$ext = $ext[count($ext)-1];
if($ext == "jpg" || $ext == "jpeg")
$im = imagecreatefromjpeg($tmpname);
elseif($ext == "png")
$im = imagecreatefrompng($tmpname);
elseif($ext == "gif")
$im = imagecreatefromgif($tmpname);
$x = imagesx($im);
$y = imagesy($im);
if($x <= $xmax && $y <= $ymax)
return $im;
if($x >= $y) {
$newx = $xmax;
$newy = $newx * $y / $x;
}
else {
$newy = $ymax;
$newx = $x / $y * $newy;
}
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$im2 = imagecreatetruecolor($newx, $newy);

imagecopyresized($im2, $im, 0, 0, 0, 0, floor($newx), floor($newy)
, $x, $y);
return $im2;
}
18. send email using mail()

Above we have discussed how you can send email using Mandrill, but in case you do not want to use a
third party service, you can use the below snippet.
function send_mail($to,$subject,$body)
{
$headers = "From: KOONK\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: blog@koonk.com\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: blog@koonk.com\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP5\n";
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers);
}
Syntax
<?php
$to = "admin@koonk.com";
$subject = "This is a test mail";
$body = "Hello World!";
send_mail($to,$subject,$body);
?>
19. CONVERT seconds to days, hours and minutes

function secsToStr($secs) {
if($secs>=86400){$days=floor($secs/86400);$secs=$secs%86400;$r=$da
ys.' day';if($days<>1){$r.='s';}if($secs>0){$r.=', ';}}
if($secs>=3600){$hours=floor($secs/3600);$secs=$secs%3600;$r.=$hou
rs.' hour';if($hours<>1){$r.='s';}if($secs>0){$r.=', ';}}
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if($secs>=60){$minutes=floor($secs/60);$secs=$secs%60;$r.=$minutes
.' minute';if($minutes<>1){$r.='s';}if($secs>0){$r.=', ';}}
$r.=$secs.' second';if($secs<>1){$r.='s';}
return $r;
}
Syntax
<?php
$seconds = "56789";
$output = secsToStr($seconds);
echo $output;
?>
20. php code snippet for database connection

To store data, you would need a database. In this case we would be using MySQL database.
<?php
$DBNAME = 'koonk';
$HOST = 'localhost';
$DBUSER = 'root';
$DBPASS = 'koonk';
$CONNECT = mysql_connect($HOST,$DBUSER,$DBPASS);
if(!$CONNECT)
{
echo 'MySQL Error: '.mysql_error();
}
$SELECT = mysql_select_db($DBNAME);
if(!$SELECT)
{
echo 'MySQL Error: '.mysql_error();
}
?>
In the highlighted lines above, you would have to specify your own server database details.
You can save the above file as config.php and you would have to include that file in all pages where you
need database connectivity.
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21. php snippet for directory listing

Using the below PHP code snippet you would be able to list all files and folders in a directory.
function list_files($dir)
{
if(is_dir($dir))
{
if($handle = opendir($dir))
{
while(($file = readdir($handle)) !== false)
{
if($file != "." && $file != ".." && $f
ile != "Thumbs.db"/*pesky windows, images..*/)
{
echo '<a target="_blank" href="'.$dir.$file.'">'.$
file.'</a> '."\n";
}
}
closedir($handle);
}
}
}
Syntax
<?php
list_files("images/"); //This will list all files of images folder
?>
22. detect USER language

Using the below PHP snippet you would be able to detect the language of your user's browser.
function get_client_language($availableLanguages, $default='en'){
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'])) {
$langs=explode(',',$_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']);
foreach ($langs as $value){
$choice=substr($value,0,2);
if(in_array($choice, $availableLanguages)){
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return $choice;
}
}
}
return $default;
}
23. reading a csv file

function readCSV($csvFile){
$file_handle = fopen($csvFile, 'r');
while (!feof($file_handle) ) {
$line_of_text[] = fgetcsv($file_handle, 1024);
}
fclose($file_handle);
return $line_of_text;
}
Syntax
<?php
$csvFile = "test.csv";
$csv = readCSV($csvFile);
$a = csv[0][0]; // This will get value of Column 1 & Row 1
?>
24. creating a csv file from php array

function generateCsv($data, $delimiter = ',', $enclosure = '"') {
$handle = fopen('php://temp', 'r+');
foreach ($data as $line) {
fputcsv($handle, $line, $delimiter, $enclosure);
}
rewind($handle);
while (!feof($handle)) {
$contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);
return $contents;
}
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Syntax
<?php
$data[0] = "apple";
$data[1] = "oranges";
generateCsv($data, $delimiter = ',', $enclosure = '"');
?>
25. parsing xml data

Below PHP snippet will help you explain how you can parse XML data in PHP.
$xml_string="<?xml version='1.0'?>
<moleculedb>
<molecule name='Benzine'>
<symbol>ben</symbol>
<code>A</code>
</molecule>
<molecule name='Water'>
<symbol>h2o</symbol>
<code>K</code>
</molecule>
</moleculedb>";
//load the xml string using simplexml function
$xml = simplexml_load_string($xml_string);
//loop through the each node of molecule
foreach ($xml->molecule as $record)
{
//attribute are accessted by
echo $record['name'], ' ';
//node are accessted by -> operator
echo $record->symbol, ' ';
echo $record->code, ' ';
}
26. PARSING JSON DATA

$json_string='{"id":1,"name":"rolf","country":"russia","office":["goog
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le","oracle"]} ';
$obj=json_decode($json_string);
//print the parsed data
echo $obj->name; //displays rolf
echo $obj->office[0]; //displays google
27. get current page url

This PHP snippet comes handy when post login you have to redirect user to the same page which he was
browsing earlier.
function current_url()
{
$url = "http://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$validURL = str_replace("&", "&", $url);
return validURL;
}
Syntax
<?php
echo "Currently you are on: ".current_url();
?>
28. get latest tweet from ANY twitter account

function my_twitter($username)
{
$no_of_tweets = 1;
$feed = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:" . $username
. "&rpp=" . $no_of_tweets;
$xml = simplexml_load_file($feed);
foreach($xml->children() as $child) {
foreach ($child as $value) {
if($value->getName() == "link") $link = $value['href'];
if($value->getName() == "content") {
$content = $value . "";
echo ''.$content.' <a class="twt" href="'.$link.'" t
itle=""> </a>';
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}
}
}
}
Syntax
<?php
$handle = "koonktech";
my_twitter($handle);
?>
29. number of retweets

Using this PHP snippet you can check the number of times your page URL was retweeted.
function tweetCount($url) {
$content = file_get_contents("http://api.tweetmeme.com/url_info?ur
l=".$url);
$element = new SimpleXmlElement($content);
$retweets = $element->story->url_count;
if($retweets){
return $retweets;
} else {
return 0;
}
}
Syntax
<?php
$url = "http://blog.koonk.com";
$count = tweetCount($url);
return $count;
?>
30. calculate difference in 2 dates
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<?php
$date1 = date( 'Y-m-d' );
$date2 = "2015-12-04";
$diff = abs(strtotime($date2) - strtotime($date1));
$years = floor($diff / (365*60*60*24));
$months = floor(($diff - $years * 365*60*60*24) / (30*60*60*24));
$days = floor(($diff - $years * 365*60*60*24 - $months*30*60*60*24)/ (
60*60*24));
printf("%d years, %d months, %d days\n", $years, $months, $days);
-------------------------------------------------------- OR
$date1 = new DateTime("2007-03-24");

$date2 = new DateTime("2009-06-26");
$interval = $date1->diff($date2);
echo "difference " . $interval->y . " years, " . $interval->m." months
, ".$interval->d." days ";
// shows the total amount of days (not divided into years, months and
days like above)
echo "difference " . $interval->days . " days ";
-------------------------------------------------------- OR
/**
* Calculate differences between two dates with precise semantics. Bas
ed on PHPs DateTime::diff()
* implementation by Derick Rethans. Ported to PHP by Emil H, 2011-0502. No rights reserved.
*
* See here for original code:
* http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/phpsrc/trunk/ext/date/lib/tm2unixtime.c?revision=302890&view=markup
* http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/phpsrc/trunk/ext/date/lib/interval.c?revision=298973&view=markup
*/
function _date_range_limit($start, $end, $adj, $a, $b, $result)
{
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if ($result[$a] < $start) {

$result[$b] -= intval(($start - $result[$a] - 1) / $adj) + 1;
$result[$a] += $adj * intval(($start - $result[$a] - 1) / $adj
+ 1);
}
if ($result[$a] >= $end) {
$result[$b] += intval($result[$a] / $adj);
$result[$a] -= $adj * intval($result[$a] / $adj);
}
return $result;
}
function _date_range_limit_days($base, $result)
{
$days_in_month_leap = array(31, 31, 29, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30
, 31, 30, 31);
$days_in_month = array(31, 31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31,
30, 31);
_date_range_limit(1, 13, 12, "m", "y", &$base);
$year = $base["y"];
$month = $base["m"];
if (!$result["invert"]) {
while ($result["d"] < 0) {
$month--;
if ($month < 1) {
$month += 12;
$year--;
}
$leapyear = $year % 400 == 0 || ($year % 100 != 0 && $year
% 4 == 0);
$days = $leapyear ? $days_in_month_leap[$month] : $days_in
_month[$month];
$result["d"] += $days;
$result["m"]--;
}
} else {
while ($result["d"] < 0) {
$leapyear = $year % 400 == 0 || ($year % 100 != 0 && $year
% 4 == 0);
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$days = $leapyear ? $days_in_month_leap[$month] : $days_in

_month[$month];
$result["d"] += $days;
$result["m"]--;
$month++;
if ($month > 12) {
$month -= 12;
$year++;
}
}
}
return $result;
}
function _date_normalize($base, $result)
{
$result = _date_range_limit(0, 60, 60,
"s",
"i",
"h",
"m",
"i",
"h",
"d",
"y",
$result);
$result);
$result);
$result);
$result = _date_range_limit_days(&$base, &$result);

$result = _date_range_limit(0, 12, 12, "m", "y", $result);
return $result;
}
/**
* Accepts two unix timestamps.
*/
function _date_diff($one, $two)
{
$invert = false;
if ($one > $two) {
list($one, $two) = array($two, $one);
$invert = true;
}
$key = array("y", "m", "d", "h", "i", "s");
$a = array_combine($key, array_map("intval", explode(" ", date("Y
m d H i s", $one))));
$b = array_combine($key, array_map("intval", explode(" ", date("Y
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m d H i s", $two))));
$result = array();
$result["y"] = $b["y"] - $a["y"];
$result["m"] = $b["m"] - $a["m"];
$result["d"] = $b["d"] - $a["d"];
$result["h"] = $b["h"] - $a["h"];
$result["i"] = $b["i"] - $a["i"];
$result["s"] = $b["s"] - $a["s"];
$result["invert"] = $invert ? 1 : 0;
$result["days"] = intval(abs(($one - $two)/86400));
if ($invert) {
_date_normalize(&$a, &$result);
} else {
_date_normalize(&$b, &$result);
}
return $result;
}
$date = "2014-12-04 19:37:22";
echo '<pre>';
print_r( _date_diff( strtotime($date), time() ) );
echo '</pre>';
?>
31. php snippet to delete a folder with content

function Delete($path)
{
if (is_dir($path) === true)
{
$files = array_diff(scandir($path), array('.', '..'));
foreach ($files as $file)
{
Delete(realpath($path) . '/' . $file);
}
return rmdir($path);
}
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else if (is_file($path) === true)

{
return unlink($path);
}
return false;
}
Syntax
<?php
$path = "images/";
Delete($path); // This will delete images folder along with its conten
ts.
?>
32. search and highlight keywords in a string

It becomes convenient for user, when he searches something and in the result he can see his keyword
highlighted.
function highlighter_text($text, $words)
{
$split_words = explode( " " , $words );
foreach($split_words as $word)
{
$color = "#4285F4";
$text = preg_replace("|($word)|Ui" ,
"$1" , $te
xt );
}
return $text;
}
Syntax
<?php
$string = "I like chocolates and I like apples";
$words = "apple";
echo highlighter_text($string ,$words);
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?>
33. php snippet to write to a file

<?
$filename = 'blog.csv';
$fp = fopen($filename, 'w');
$output = " Hello ";
$output .= " World! ";
$output .= "\r\n";
fputs($fp, $output);
fclose($fp);
?>
34. download image from url

Most of the websites now give you an option to either upload image or download it from a URL. Ever
wondered how they copy that image from that URL? Here is how
function imagefromURL($image,$rename)
{
$ch = curl_init($image);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,1);
$rawdata=curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
$fp = fopen("$rename",'w');
fwrite($fp, $rawdata);
fclose($fp);
}
Syntax
<?php
$url = "http://koonk.com/images/logo.png";
$rename = "koonk.png";
imagefromURL($url,$rename);
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?>
35. check if a url is valid

function isvalidURL($url)
{
$check = 0;
if (filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL) !== false) {
$check = 1;
}
return $check;
}
Syntax
<?php
$url = "http://koonk.com";
$check = checkvalidURL($url);
echo $check; //if returns 1 then URL is valid.
?>
36. generate qr code

function qr_code($data, $type = "TXT", $size ='150', $ec='L', $margin=
'0')
{
$types = array("URL" =--> "http://", "TEL" => "TEL:", "TXT"=>"",
"EMAIL" => "MAILTO:");
if(!in_array($type,array("URL", "TEL", "TXT", "EMAIL")))
{
$type = "TXT";
}
if (!preg_match('/^'.$types[$type].'/', $data))
{
$data = str_replace("\\", "", $types[$type]).$data;
}
$ch = curl_init();
$data = urlencode($data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://chart.apis.google.com/chart'
);
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curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'chs='.$size.'x'.$size.'&cht=
qr&chld='.$ec.'|'.$margin.'&chl='.$data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $response;
}
Syntax
<?php
header("Content-type: image/png");
echo qr_code("http://koonk.com", "URL");
?>
37. calculate distance between two map coordinates

function getDistanceBetweenPointsNew($latitude1, $longitude1, $latitud
e2, $longitude2) {
$theta = $longitude1 - $longitude2;
$miles = (sin(deg2rad($latitude1)) * sin(deg2rad($latitude2))) + (
cos(deg2rad($latitude1)) * cos(deg2rad($latitude2)) * cos(deg2rad($the
ta)));
$miles = acos($miles);
$miles = rad2deg($miles);
$miles = $miles * 60 * 1.1515;
$feet = $miles * 5280;
$yards = $feet / 3;
$kilometers = $miles * 1.609344;
$meters = $kilometers * 1000;
return compact('miles','feet','yards','kilometers','meters');
}
Syntax
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<?php
$point1 = array('lat' => 40.770623, 'long' => -73.964367);
$point2 = array('lat' => 40.758224, 'long' => -73.917404);
$distance = getDistanceBetweenPointsNew($point1['lat'], $point1['long'
], $point2['lat'], $point2['long']);
foreach ($distance as $unit => $value) {
echo $unit.': '.number_format($value,4).' ';
}
?>
38. get all tweets of a specific hashtag

function getTweets($hash_tag) {
$url = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q='.urlencode($hash_
tag) ;
echo "Connecting to $url ...";
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$xml = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
//If you want to see the response from Twitter, uncomment this nex
t part out:
//echo "Response:";
//echo "<pre>".htmlspecialchars($xml)."</pre>";
$affected = 0;
$twelement = new SimpleXMLElement($xml);
foreach ($twelement->entry as $entry) {
$text = trim($entry->title);
$author = trim($entry->author->name);
$time = strtotime($entry->published);
$id = $entry->id;
echo "Tweet from ".$author.": ".$text."
em>Posted ".date('n/j/y g:i a',$time)."";
}
<
return true ;
}
39. Add th,st,nd or rd to the end of a number
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Friday the 13th

function ordinal($cdnl){
$test_c = abs($cdnl) % 10;
$ext = ((abs($cdnl) %100 < 21 && abs($cdnl) %100 > 4) ? 'th'
: (($test_c < 4) ? ($test_c < 3) ? ($test_c < 2) ? ($test_
c < 1)
? 'th' : 'st' : 'nd' : 'rd' : 'th'));
return $cdnl.$ext;
}
Syntax
<?php
$number = 10;
echo ordinal($number); //output is 10th
?>
40. file download with speed limit

If you are planning to create a file sharing website then you would already know that bandwidth is the
key. Here is how you can limit the speed at which the file will download.
<?php
// local file that should be send to the client
$local_file = 'test-file.zip';
// filename that the user gets as default
$download_file = 'your-download-name.zip';
// set the download rate limit (=> 20,5 kb/s)
$download_rate = 20.5;
if(file_exists($local_file) && is_file($local_file)) {
// send headers
header('Cache-control: private');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Length: '.filesize($local_file));
header('Content-Disposition: filename='.$download_file);
// flush content
flush();
// open file stream
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$file = fopen($local_file, "r");

while(!feof($file)) {
// send the current file part to the browser
print fread($file, round($download_rate * 1024));
// flush the content to the browser
flush();
// sleep one second
sleep(1);
}
// close file stream
fclose($file);}
else {
die('Error: The file '.$local_file.' does not exist!');
}
?>
41. convert text to image

<?php
header("Content-type: image/png");
$string = $_GET['text'];
$im = imagecreatefrompng("images/button.png");
$color = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$px = (imagesx($im) - 7.5 * strlen($string)) / 2;
$py = 9;
$fontSize = 1;
imagestring($im, fontSize, $px, $py, $string, $color);
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>
42. get remote file size

function remote_filesize($url, $user = "", $pw = "")
{
ob_start();
$ch = curl_init($url);
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curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1);
if(!empty($user) && !empty($pw))
{
$headers = array('Authorization: Basic ' . base64_encode("$user:$pw
"));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
}
$ok = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$head = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$regex = '/Content-Length:\s([0-9].+?)\s/';
$count = preg_match($regex, $head, $matches);
return isset($matches[1]) ? $matches[1] : "unknown";
}
Syntax
<?php
$file = "http://koonk.com/images/logo.png";
$size = remote_filesize($url);
echo $size;
?>
43. pdf to image converter with imagebrick

<?php
$pdf_file
= './pdf/demo.pdf';
$save_to
= './jpg/demo.jpg';
//make sure that apache has permis
sions to write in this folder! (common problem)
//execute ImageMagick command 'convert' and convert PDF to JPG with ap
plied settings
exec('convert "'.$pdf_file.'" -colorspace RGB -resize 800 "'.$save_to.
'"', $output, $return_var);
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if($return_var == 0) {
//if exec successfuly converted pd
f to jpg
print "Conversion OK";
}
else print "Conversion failed. ".$output;
?>
44. URL SHORTENER using tinyurl

function get_tiny_url($url)
{
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,'http://tinyurl.com/apicreate.php?url='.$url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}
Syntax
<?php
$url = "http://blog.koonk.com/2015/07/Hello-World";
$tinyurl = get_tiny_url($url);
echo $tinyurl;
?>
45. youtube download link generator

Using the below PHP snippet you can offer your users the ability to download youtube videos.
function str_between($string, $start, $end)
{
$string = " ".$string; $ini = strpos($string,$start); if ($ini == 0) r
eturn ""; $ini += strlen($start); $len = strpos($string,$end,$ini) - $
ini; return substr($string,$ini,$len); }
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function get_youtube_download_link(){
$youtube_link = $_GET['youtube'];
$youtube_page = file_get_contents($youtube_link);
$v_id = str_between($youtube_page, "&video_id=", "&");
$t_id = str_between($youtube_page, "&t=", "&");
$flv_link = "http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=$v_id&t=$t_id"
;
$hq_flv_link = "http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=$v_id&t=$t_
id&fmt=6";
$mp4_link = "http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=$v_id&t=$t_id&
fmt=18";
$threegp_link = "http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=$v_id&t=$t
_id&fmt=17";
echo "\t\tDownload (right-click > save as):\n\t\t";
echo "<a href=\"$flv_link\">FLV</a>\n\t\t";
echo "<a href=\"$hq_flv_link\">HQ FLV (if available)</a>\n\t\t";
echo "<a href=\"$mp4_link\">MP4</a>\n\t\t";
echo "<a href=\"$threegp_link\">3GP</a> \n";
}
46. Facebook style timestamp

Ever noticed how your post/comment time is shown on Facebook (x mins age, y hours ago etc). Below is
a simple PHP snippet which you can use that will do the same thing.
function nicetime($date)
{
if(empty($date)) {
return "No date provided";
}
$periods
= array("second", "minute", "hour", "day", "week"
, "month", "year", "decade");
$lengths
= array("60","60","24","7","4.35","12","10");
$now
$unix_date
= time();
= strtotime($date);
// check validity of date

if(empty($unix_date)) {
return "Bad date";
}
// is it future date or past date
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if($now > $unix_date) {

$difference
= $now - $unix_date;
$tense
= "ago";
} else {
$difference
$tense
}
= $unix_date - $now;
= "from now";
for($j = 0; $difference >= $lengths[$j] && $j < count($lengths)-1;

$j++) {
$difference /= $lengths[$j];
}
$difference = round($difference);
if($difference != 1) {
$periods[$j].= "s";
}
return "$difference $periods[$j] {$tense}";
}
Syntax
<?php
$date = "2015-07-05 03:45";
$result = nicetime($date); // 2 days ago
?>
This completes my first blog post. Most of the PHP snippets that I have mentioned above are not mine. I
have gathered them over years hence I am unable to add proper credits.
These snippets can help you save a lot of time while you get down to code something amazing.
This is my first blog post here. Took me a few hours to compile. Hope you guys would like it.
Do comment below and let me know if you liked(or disliked) my first post. Comments and suggestions
are welcome. Let me know how you feel about this post by tweeting to @TheMohitMadan
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Signing off.
Mohit Madan
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'route' => $route

//Ignore SSL certificate verification

2. SENDIng email WITH mandrill

3. PHP function to help prevent sql injection

$output = htmlentities($output, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');

4. detect location of the user

5. get the source code of a webpage

6. show number of people who have liked YOUR facebook page

7. determine dominant color of any image

"aero" => "whois.information.aero",

9. validate email address

10. get real ip address of user

11. Convert url in a string to hyperlinks

12. block multiple ip from accessing your website

13. forceful downloading of file

14. CREATING json data

15. zipping a file

16. unzipping a file

17. php snippet to resize image

$im2 = imagecreatetruecolor($newx, $newy);

18. send email using mail()

19. CONVERT seconds to days, hours and minutes

20. php code snippet for database connection

21. php snippet for directory listing

22. detect USER language

23. reading a csv file

24. creating a csv file from php array

25. parsing xml data

26. PARSING JSON DATA

27. get current page url

28. get latest tweet from ANY twitter account

29. number of retweets

30. calculate difference in 2 dates

$date1 = new DateTime("2007-03-24");

if ($result[$a] < $start) {

$days = $leapyear ? $days_in_month_leap[$month] : $days_in

$result = _date_range_limit_days(&$base, &$result);

31. php snippet to delete a folder with content

else if (is_file($path) === true)

32. search and highlight keywords in a string

33. php snippet to write to a file

34. download image from url

35. check if a url is valid

36. generate qr code

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);

37. calculate distance between two map coordinates

38. get all tweets of a specific hashtag

39. Add th,st,nd or rd to the end of a number

Friday the 13th

40. file download with speed limit

$file = fopen($local_file, "r");

41. convert text to image

42. get remote file size

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);

43. pdf to image converter with imagebrick

44. URL SHORTENER using tinyurl

45. youtube download link generator

46. Facebook style timestamp

// check validity of date

if($now > $unix_date) {

for($j = 0; $difference >= $lengths[$j] && $j < count($lengths)-1;