Many times I would like to pass an object from my PHP code to Javascript or from Javascript to PHP. JSON and a couple of PHP and Javascript functions make that easy! JSON is JavaScript Object Notation. Basically, it’s a textual way to represent an object. To demonstrate, I will create a PHP object: <?php […]
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This is a PHP function that I wish I had known about earlier, so I thought it was worth a mention for today’s Daily Web Tip. parse_url is a function that breaks a url down into it’s parts. <?php print_r(parse_url(‘https://cindycullen.com/example/test.php?id=255#faq1’)) ?> Will give you: Array ( [scheme] => http [host] => cindycullen.com [path] => /example/test.php
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PHP is a preprocessor which means that before your web page is loaded in someone’s browser, the server where the web page lives ‘pre-processes’ the web page. In other words, before the web page is delivered to the browser, the code for the page is first translated with the PHP translator on the server. To
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Sometimes for beginners, or even those of us that have been doing this for a while, it may be difficult to see how to use PHP and JavaScript together to make the page work correctly. I often have to stop and remind myself of the basics. HTML and JavaScript (which includes JavaScript libraries, such as
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I needed to find the disk spaced used by members of a website yesterday. Each member’s files are in a separate directory (or folder), so I basically needed to check the size of each file in each member’s folder and add them up to see if they were over their limit. Here’s how I did
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