Category Archives: PHP

PHP: How To Get A Time Difference in Human Readable Format

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Masao

A simple function to return the time since a given timestamp in the past. function time_since($timestamp) { // Init $hash = array(); $now = time(); // Breakdown the time diff $diff = $now – $timestamp; $hash['day'] = floor($diff / 86400); … Continue reading →

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PHP: Pass By Reference vs. Pass By Value

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Masao

By default, PHP is pass by value. <? function pass_by_value($param) { push_array($param, 4, 5); } $ar = array(1,2,3); pass_by_value($ar); foreach ($ar as $elem) { print "<br>$elem"; } ?> The code above prints 1, 2, 3. This is because the array … Continue reading →

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Perl Version of PHP's "ucwords" Function

Posted on December 15, 2009 by Masao

my $string = ‘this is a string of text’; $string =~ s/\b(\w+)\b/ucfirst($1)/ge; print “$string\n”;

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How To Merge PHP Objects

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Masao

foreach($objectA as $k => $v) $objectB->$k = $v;

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Minimal PhpMyAdmin new server config

Posted on November 24, 2008 by Masao

Besides the boilerplate at the top, here’s the least you need to add another database server to the dropdown list in PhpMyAdmin: $i++; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = ‘cookie’; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = ‘my.host.com’;

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How to Write to STDERR in PHP

Posted on October 26, 2008 by Masao

Writing to standard error in PHP:    fwrite(STDERR, “hello error string\n”);  Useful for standalone PHP scripts.

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