PHP is a very rich with its built-in function and most of us aware of them. There are many functions which are not very well known but are really very useful. In this article, I have listed and explained few little known but really useful PHP functions.
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Download and save images from a page using cURL
cURL, and it’s PHP extension libcURL which allows to connect and communicate to many different types of servers with many different types of protocols. libcurl currently supports the http, https, ftp, gopher, telnet, dict, file, and ldap protocols. libcurl also supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, […]
Remove an item from comma separated string using PHP
Sometimes we need to remove specific item from comma separated string. Here is a running PHP function to remove an item from a comma-separated string. The function will remove the selected items from the string and return the remaining parts of the string.
Add quotes to values in a string separated by a comma in PHP
Sometimes we need to add quotes to values in a string separated by comma. For example while using MySQL FULLTEXT search, we need to use some kind of string like ‘pasta’,’ tuna’,’ eggs’ OR finding big list of Ids from MySQL such as WHERE item IN (‘pasta’,’ tuna’,’ eggs’). Here in this post, you have […]
Uploading files through FTP using PHP
During developing a web project, we always need FTP Clients(FileZila, WinSCP, SmartFTP etc.) to send or upload files to a server via FTP. However, if you are PHP developer, you can easily create your own FTP script to sending files from one server to another server. The PHP provides ftp_put function to upload a file to […]