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How To Run a PHP Script
How To Run a PHP Script? - PHP Script Tips - Downloading and Installing PHP A standard alone PHP script can be executed directly with the PHP Command Line Interface (CLI). Write the following script in a file called hello.php: &lt;?php echo "Hello world!"; ?&gt; This script can be executed b...
2007-04-22, 5267👍, 0💬

How To Remove the New Line Character from the End of a Text Line
How To Remove the New Line Character from the End of a Text Line? - PHP Script Tips - PHP Built-in Functions for Strings If you are using fgets() to read a line from a text file, you may want to use the chop() function to remove the new line character from the end of the line as shown in this PHP sc...
2007-04-22, 5266👍, 0💬

What Is the Scope of a Variable Defined outside a Function
What Is the Scope of a Variable Defined outside a Function? - PHP Script Tips - Creating Your Own Functions A variable defined outside any functions in main script body is called global variable. However, a global variable is not really accessible globally any in the script. The scope of global vari...
2007-04-24, 5264👍, 0💬

How To Create an Array
How To Create an Array? - PHP Script Tips - Understanding PHP Arrays and Their Basic Operations You can create an array using the array() constructor. When calling array(), you can also initialize the array with pairs of keys and values. Here is a PHP script on how to use array(): &lt;?php print...
2007-04-20, 5262👍, 0💬

How To Convert Strings to Numbers
How To Convert Strings to Numbers? - PHP Script Tips - Understanding String Literals and Operations In a numeric context, PHP will automatically convert any string to a numeric value. Strings will be converted into two types of numeric values, double floating number and integer, based on the followi...
2007-04-20, 5262👍, 0💬

How To Create a Database
How To Create a Database? - PHP Script Tips - Working with MySQL Database A database in a MySQL server is a logical container used to group tables and other data objects together as a unit. If you are a the administrator of the server, you can create and delete databases using the CREATE/DROP DATABA...
2007-04-18, 5254👍, 0💬

How To Close a Session Properly
How To Close a Session Properly? - PHP Script Tips - Understanding and Using Sessions Let's say you site requires users to login. When a logged in user clicks the logout button, you need to close the session associated with this user properly in 3 steps: Remove all session values with $_SESSION = ar...
2007-04-17, 5254👍, 0💬

Where Are PHP Configuration Settings Stored
Where Are PHP Configuration Settings Stored? - PHP Script Tips - Downloading and Installing PHP PHP stores configuration settings in a file called php.ini in PHP home directory. You can open it with any text editor to your settings.
2007-04-22, 5246👍, 0💬

How To Test Persistent Cookies
How To Test Persistent Cookies? - PHP Script Tips - Understanding and Managing Cookies If you want to test persistent cookies, you can copy the following PHP script, setting_persistent_cookies.php ,to your Web server: &lt;?php setcookie("LoginName","FYICent er");setcookie("PreferredColor","Bl ue"...
2007-04-25, 5245👍, 0💬

How To Remove a Cookie
How To Remove a Cookie? - PHP Script Tips - Understanding and Managing Cookies Once a cookie is sent from the server to the browser, there is no direct way for the server to ask the browser to remove the cookie. But you can use the setcookie() function to send the same cookie to browser with a negat...
2007-04-24, 5241👍, 0💬

How To Test If a Variable Is an Array
How To Test If a Variable Is an Array? - PHP Script Tips - Understanding PHP Arrays and Their Basic Operations Testing if a variable is an array is easy. Just use the is_array() function. Here is a PHP script on how to use is_array(): &lt;?php $var = array(0,0,7); print("Test 1: ". is_array($var...
2007-04-20, 5240👍, 0💬

How To Specify Argument Default Values
How To Specify Argument Default Values? - PHP Script Tips - Creating Your Own Functions If you want to allow the caller to skip an argument when calling a function, you can define the argument with a default value when defining the function. Adding a default value to an argument can be done like thi...
2007-04-25, 5238👍, 0💬

How To Specify Domain and Path for a Cookie
How To Specify Domain and Path for a Cookie? - PHP Script Tips - Understanding and Managing Cookies If you want to specify domain and path for cookie, you can use the setcookie() function with two extra parameters. The sample PHP script below shows you how to set the domain and path attributes for t...
2007-04-24, 5238👍, 0💬

How To Read One Character from a File
How To Read One Character from a File? - PHP Script Tips - Reading and Writing Files If you have a text file, and you want to read the file one character at a time, you can use the fgetc() function. It reads the current character, moves the file pointer to the next character, and returns the charact...
2007-04-22, 5236👍, 0💬

How To Insert Data into an Existing Table
How To Insert Data into an Existing Table? - MySQL FAQs - Managing Tables and Running Queries with PHP Scripts If you want to insert a row of data into an existing table, you can use the INSERT INTO statement as shown in the following sample script: &lt;?php include "mysql_connection.php"; $sql ...
2007-05-10, 5231👍, 0💬

How To Write an Array to a File without a File Handle
How To Write an Array to a File without a File Handle? - PHP Script Tips - Reading and Writing Files If you have an array, want to write it to a file, and you don't want to open the file with a file handle, you can use the file_put_contents(). It opens the specified file, writes all values from the ...
2007-04-23, 5231👍, 0💬

What Are the Options to Transfer Session IDs
What Are the Options to Transfer Session IDs? - PHP Script Tips - Understanding and Using Sessions Once a new session is created, its session ID must be transferred to the client browser and included in the next client request, so that the PHP engine can find the same session created by the same vis...
2007-04-18, 5228👍, 0💬

How To Remove a File
How To Remove a File? - PHP Script Tips - Working with Directoris and Files If you want to remove an existing file, you can use the unlink() function. Here is a PHP script example on how to use unlink(): &lt;?php if (file_exists("/temp/todo.txt") ){ unlink("/temp/todo.txt"); print("File removed....
2007-04-23, 5224👍, 0💬

What Is an Array in PHP
What Is an Array in PHP? - PHP Script Tips - Understanding PHP Arrays and Their Basic Operations An array in PHP is really an ordered map of pairs of keys and values. Comparing with Perl, an array in PHP is not like a normal array in Perl. An array in PHP is like an associate array in Perl. But an a...
2007-04-20, 5224👍, 0💬

Which HTML Tag Allows Users to Specify a File for Uploading
Which HTML Tag Allows Users to Specify a File for Uploading? - PHP Script Tips - Uploading Files to Web Servers To present an input field on your Web page to allow users to specify a local file to upload, you need to use the &lt;INPUT TYPE="FILE" ...> tag inside a &lt;FORM ...> tag. The &...
2007-04-19, 5221👍, 0💬

How Cookies Are Transported from Browsers to Servers
How Cookies Are Transported from Browsers to Servers? - PHP Script Tips - Understanding and Managing Cookies Cookies are transported from a Web browser to a Web server in the header area of the HTTP request message. Each cookie will be included in a separate "Cookie:" header line in the following fo...
2007-04-24, 5219👍, 0💬

How To Convert Numbers to Strings
How To Convert Numbers to Strings? - PHP Script Tips - Understanding String Literals and Operations In a string context, PHP will automatically convert any numeric value to a string. Here is a PHP script examples: &lt;?php print(-1.3e3); print("\n"); print(strlen(-1.3e3)); print("\n"); print("Pr...
2007-04-20, 5219👍, 0💬

How To Select an Exiting Database
How To Select an Exiting Database? - MySQL FAQs - PHP Connections and Query Execution The first thing after you have created a connection object to the MySQL server is to select the database where your tables are located, by using the mysql_select_db() function. If your MySQL server is offered by yo...
2007-05-10, 5216👍, 0💬

How To Support Multiple Submit Buttons
How To Support Multiple Submit Buttons? - PHP Script Tips - Processing Web Forms Sometimes, you may need to give visitors multiple submit buttons on a single form to allow them to submit the form for different purposes. For example, when you show your customer a purchase order in a Web form, you may...
2007-04-22, 5214👍, 0💬

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