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Posts with tag: PHP
Simplest way to generate a random password in PHP
When creating web apps, there’s often a need to generate a random password for your users. There are a number of ways to do this, but in needing to do this recently I came up with this very simple function that will generate a password (or other random string) of whatever length you wish.
Front-end & WordPress developer interview test
I recently had to create an interview test for a developer who has good skill in PHP, but is not so experienced when it comes to front-end coding. On the front-end side of things, the job they were interviewing for required decent HTML & CSS knowledge. With that in mind I created a little test to evaluate their skills – I’m posting it here for anyone else who needs something similar.
Creating shortcodes in WordPress
WordPress shortcodes are a handy way to add standardised or dynamic content to any post or page. Once you have used them for a bit you will start to realise just how powerful they really are. Here is a guide on how to create shortcodes that you (or your clients) can use.
Loop through each character in a string in PHP
The other day I was working on a project that required me to extract a numeric ID from the current page’s URL. The problem was that the ID could either be at the end of the URL string or in the middle, depending if there were any parameters added on or not. Here is how I worked around the problem by looping through each character of the string.
PHP 101: Sending HTML emails with PHP
Whether you are creating a basic website or setting up a feature-rich online store, you are more than likely going to need to send an email or two from your PHP application. There are essentially two main methods for doing this and here they are explained for your reading pleasure.
Code Snippet: A custom Twitter feed for your website
If you’re using a CMS you can simply find a handy plugin that displays your Twitter feed on your site, but if you’re working in a non-CMS framework then it’s more tricky. Here’s a handy piece of code you can use to get your twitter feed as well as any tweets that mention your name. I have also provided a simple function that uses regex to turn any URLs, hash tags or @mentions in your tweets into clickable links.
PHP 101: Connecting to a MySQL database
I thought it might be useful to occasionally post some basic PHP tips that I wish I had been given when I first started programming. These will feature simple PHP methods that are aimed more at beginners than experienced PHP devs, but they may also serve as handy little reminders for the latter. To start the series I thought I’d give the simplest way to connect to a MySQL database using PHP.
Parsing URLs in PHP
In the past I have seen (and used) many functions in PHP that essentially serve the exact same purpose – they get specific elements from a page URL. They usually use some kind of regular expression to achieve this and are often around 10-15 lines in length. More recently I have discovered that these functions are pointless and have been since the advent of PHP 4.
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Using Nutch and Solr to crawl and index the web
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Code Snippet: A custom Twitter feed for your website
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Experiment: Streamlining my online content using ifttt & tumblr
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