Category: PHP

Sometimes it is necessary to divert a visitor to a different page on your website or even an external site. This might be for a

A simple but valuable feature of dynamic websites is displaying the current date and time. With PHP, this is easy to do with the date()

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

No this isn’t about getting frustrated with PHP and nuking your server, this is a couple of very useful (although hard to remember) array functions.

To find out the full details of any given variable in php, simply use var_dump() as follows: {code type=php} var_dump($variable); {/code} This will show you

If you are having a problem debugging any php code a good thing to do is make sure all errors are showing. Simply use the

A quick and easy improvement to your site is to make sure any copyright notices are accurate. Too often I see websites with Copyright 2006

An excellent alternative method to assigning string variables is to use the heredoc syntax. If you are assigning long strings of text with characters that

As an example if you have an array of users with an ID field as the key and the username as the value, such as:

In most applications there is a need for set values that do not change during the execution of a script. Examples of these values are: