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6 Useful PHP code snippets
A collection of PHP snippets that I regularly use
Here’s a selection of really useful PHP code snippets that I find using on a weekly basis. You could use these as is or expand them as part of other applications or add them to a php class.
Adjust server time
If you have a server in a different timezone to you then you might be seeing funny things happen when you add the time to a MySQL database for example. You can fix this by adding or subtracting hours as in the example below.
$now = date('Y-m-d-G');
$now = strftime("%Y-%m-%d-%H", strtotime("$now -8 hours"));
Create a slug URL from string of text
Here we’re passing in a simple string of text converting it to lowercase and replacing all the spaces with a dash.
function create_slug(strtolower($string)){
$slug=preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9-]+/', '-', $string);
return $slug;
}
echo create_slug('Create a slug URL from string of text');
Convert HEX value to RBG
If you’ve ever need to get an RGB colour format converted from a Hexadecimal this is the function for the job.
function hextorgb($hexvalue){
if($hexvalue[0] == '#') {
$hexvalue = substr( $hexvalue, 1);
}
if(strlen( $hexvalue ) == 6){
list($r, $g, $b) = array($hexvalue[0] . $hexvalue[1], $hexvalue[2] . $hexvalue[3], $hexvalue[4] . $hexvalue[5]);
}elseif (strlen($hexvalue) == 3) {
list($r,$g,$b) = array($hexvalue[0] . $hexvalue[0], $hexvalue[1] . $hexvalue[1], $hexvalue[2] . $hexvalue[2]);
}else{
return false;
}
$r = hexdec($r);
$g = hexdec($g);
$b = hexdec($b);
return array('R' => $r, 'G' => $g, 'B' => $b);
}
$rgb = hextorgb('#fff000');
print_r($rgb);
Display a users Gravatar image
Getting users images from Gravatar is simple. If you have the users email address you just need to MD5 hash it and append it to the gravatar URL.
$gravatar = 'http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/' . md5($email_address) . '?s=32';
echo '<img src="' . $gravatar . '" width="32" height="32"/>';
Convert links in a string of text to hyperlinks
Very useful function which will convert a string of text and ad hyperlinks to all the URLs. We loop through each URL and add a hyperlink
function url_to_link($text){
$reg_exUrl = "/(http|https|ftp|ftps)://[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(/S*)?/";
// Check if there is a url in the string
if (preg_match_all($reg_exUrl, $text, $url)) {
foreach($url[0] as $v){
$position = strpos($text,' '.$v)+1;
$text = substr_replace($text,'', $position, strlen($v));
$text = substr_replace($text,''.$v.'', $position ,0);
}
return $text;
}
else {
// if no urls in the text just return the text
return $text;
}
}
$string = 'This is a string of text and we have a link: http://papermashup.com we also have another link http://google.com';
echo url_to_link($string);
Parse JSON in PHP
Parsing a string of JSON is easier than you may think as we can use the json_decode() function in PHP which will convert the JSON into an array in PHP which we can then manipulate as needed.
$json ='{"id":0,"name":"Ashley","surname":"Ford","Website":"http://papermashup.com"} ';
$array=json_decode($json);
// print the array
print_r($array);
echo $array->name;
useful tutorial.
Setting up server time is useful snippet and json decoding one too. thanks
unreliable script nice work
Thanks for many many help for this..
Very useful code snippets. I’ll use adjust server time code and code Display a users Gravatar image. Thanks for sharing these code snippets.
i will add these to my library…great work….
Awesome post. Would be usful to see snipit #2 in JavaScript form.
As always, good stuff.
That function for finding links is going into my tool box!
Nice snippets for beginners. It is worth to mention what slug function is not UTF-8 compliant, and with some characters(chinese, cyrillic, latin extended) it will skip letters.
Thank you!! You have just made my day!! I will definetly be using at least 4 of these by the end of the day!!