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1. Add the yum repository information
Continue reading PHP – PHP 5.3 Repository for CentOS from Webtatic.com
By default, the CCK date field was in the following format.
You can get the timestamp from the above the string by the the PHP the strtotime() function. Continue reading Drupal – Get Timestamp from CCK Date Field
The parse_url() function dissect the URL completely. Try the following PHP code.
<?php $url = 'http://username:password@hostname/path?arg=value#anchor'; // Print all components of the parsed url print_r(parse_url($url)); // Get the anchor part echo parse_url($url, PHP_URL_FRAGMENT); ?>
Continue reading PHP – Get the Anchor Part of the URL by parse_url()
twitteroauth is the first PHP Library to support OAuth for Twitter’s REST API. It is developed by Abraham Williams. You can download the source code @ GitHub and the example inside is quite easy to follow.
GitHub – abraham / twitteroauth
Unlike the Facebook API, the Twitter API does not support logout. If you want to increase the security, you can force user login every time when he/she clicks the Signin with Twitter button. This can be down by adding the force_login parameter in the GET oauth/authenticate request.
Twitter API – GET oauth/authenticate Continue reading twitteroauth – Force User Login
A few days ago i posted an article about making a JSON request using $.getJSON().
jQuery & JSON – Make JSON GET request using jQuery.getJSON()
But i have made a mistake there because i didn’t realize the Cross Domain problem. So this article shows you how to resolve the Cross Domain issue in $.getJSON() by JSONP. Continue reading jQuery & JSON – Make Cross Domain Request Using jQuery.getJSON() with JSONP
i try to install the PHP memcache extension through PECL.
But i get the following error.
running: phpize
sh: phpize: not found
ERROR: `phpize’ failed Continue reading PHP – phpize: command not found
You can detect the HTTP Request Type using the following variable.
Use the following PHP to handle different HTTP Request. Continue reading PHP – Detect HTTP Request Type
The following example makes a HTTP GET request with a JSON input and return the corresponding JSON object.
Update @ 2011-10-12: The example here does not support cross domain request. In other words, the server.php and json-get.php have to be inside the same domain. (ex. localhost) Thanks dskanth for pointing out the problem.
jQuery & JSON – Make Cross Domain Request Using jQuery.getJSON() with JSONP
Add the following 2 files to your web server
server.php Continue reading jQuery & JSON – Make JSON GET request using jQuery.getJSON()
The following PHP function could swap the array elements by the array keys.
function array_swap_assoc($key1, $key2, $array) {
$newArray = array ();
foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
if ($key == $key1) {
$newArray[$key2] = $array[$key2];
} elseif ($key == $key2) {
$newArray[$key1] = $array[$key1];
} else {
$newArray[$key] = $value;
}
}
return $newArray;
}
To check if a string contains another string in PHP, we could use the strpos() function which return the position of the first $needle found in $haystack.
Continue reading PHP – Check if a string contains another string
Eureka! 