Send an email from PHP

It is common now for developers to use email as a means of communicating with users from the website. There are many reasons that you might want to do this, including: Before you start to configure your PHP scripts to send emails, you will first need to know some configuration settings for your email system….

Error reporting with PHP

When you are working on your website, you will sometimes want to change the level of error reporting that your code returns. This is a great way to get full diagnostic information to fix a problem in your latest piece of code, but be careful only to show error reporting on your test site and…

Ignore User Aborts with PHP

When you are developing or supporting a website, it does not always work perfectly. Sometimes a visitor will abort a script that is running, and when that happens, you want to try and avoid that causing a client disconnect. The ignore_user_abort() function determines whether the remote client can abort the running of the script. This…

Use PHP to Capitalise Your Text

If you want to make sure your text is nicely formatted there are a couple of tricks using PHP that can help you. Changing the case of your words is one useful feature, that can be achieved with the functions in the following example. {code type=php} echo strtoupper(‘abc’); # outputs: ABC echo strtolower(‘ABC’); # outputs:…