PHP

Code style violations: The arch enemy of maintainable code everywhere (Fixer CI)

Code style violations are the arch enemy of maintainable code everywhere. OK, I’m being a bit dramatic, but there is value to be had in everyone agreeing on, and following, a coding standard…

Modifying Variables in PHP Closures

PHP Month Number to Month Name the Easy Way

Here’s a quickie for you. Ever wanted to convert a month number to a month name in PHP but hated having to do a huge switch statement? Well here is your answer.

$monthNum = 5; 
$monthName = date("F", mktime(0, 0, 0, $monthNum…

PHP and Triple Equals (===)

Ever seen a statement like if($a === $b) and wondered what the whole triple equals thing is all about? Well it is actually quite simple. Assigning and comparing variables in PHP goes like this:

• $a = $b — Assign the value of $b to $a.

Replicating .NET Password Hashing in PHP

This is a bit of a geeky one which I’m putting down mostly for reference. I’m writing a PHP app just now that needs to connect to a Sql Server 2005 database from a previous ASP.NET project. It already has the membership set up and users in the database. All I…

PHP make_clickable

So you have string that contains URL’s and you want to make them “clickable”. This is simple and it works:

function make_clickable($text) { return preg_replace('@(?<![.*">])b(?:(?:https?|ftp|file)://|[a-z].)[-A-Z0-9+&#/%=~_|$?!:,.]*[A-Z0-9+&#/%=~_|$]@i', '[]()', $text)…