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So I managed to write a script to read a Microsoft Word document using PHP CLI and the COM object pretty easily, but then battled to get it working in the browser. In your php.ini: ; allow Distributed-COM calls; http://php.net/com.allow-dcomcom.allow_dcom = true On your Windows PC: Run “dcomcnfg” (right-click Windows icon and select Run) to open […]
Another post from the archives. After 2009 rolled in and all our sites failed to follow suite because “someone” hard-coded the years – but only up to 2008 – I quickly had to write something a bit more – well, smart. I needed an HTML drop-down box with a set of years starting from a […]
I have only recently begun working with PHP CLI scripts. Executing PHP scripts from the command line is fairly easy and you require no extra knowledge to create a basic script. As you progress you will need to know some new methods of using PHP. Below is a PHP script called hello.php which is executed […]
Another post from the archives: I am running a WAMP development environment at home and at work. I am always looking for new ways to fine-tune my set-up. Here is one… The short open tags option allow you to leave off the “php” in the opening tag of your code block. So, instead of: <?php […]
It is recommended that you do not include database connection details in your scripts, so where exactly do you store them? Luckily, PHP has the handy function parse_ini_file() specifically for this task. From php.net: parse_ini_file ( string $filename [, bool $process_sections = false [, int $scanner_mode = INI_SCANNER_NORMAL ]] ) The $process_sections parameter allows you to […]
So I started out with the Getting Started for PHP on the Heroku site in my efforts to get into the cloud. The step-by-step guide on the Heroku site is fairly straight forward. I made the following notes (I am using Windows 10): You will need Composer – I used the Composer-Setup.exe – you will need […]
I have played with various WordPress plugins for code syntax highlighting, but recently helped answer a query with regards syntax highlighting in other projects using Google Code Prettify. If you store your code samples in a MySQL database, the trick is to store them as html entities. In other words, the following PHP code: <?php //comment […]
Whilst fiddling around with QR Codes, I came across this Bar-code generator for PHP. Minimum requirements: PHP 5 GD2 Extension Here is my code for a basic implementation (adapted from the manual which has errors): <?php require_once(‘class/BCGFontFile.php’); require_once(‘class/BCGColor.php’); require_once(‘class/BCGDrawing.php’); require_once(‘class/BCGcode128.barcode.php’); // The arguments are R, G, and B for color. $colorBack = new BCGColor(255, 255, […]
Hoo boy we have to do this all the time and a quick Google tells me everyone has their favorite little tricks. Some even work. Here are the results of an exercise in e-mail validation using two different PHP options, namely: filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)); preg_match(‘/^([a-z0-9])(([-a-z0-9._])*([a-z0-9]))*\@([a-z0-9])*(\.([a-z0-9])([-a-z0-9_-])([a-z0-9])+)*$/i’, $email); See demo page here…
This was a quick hack to upload a PDF to Clearer Conscience. This script was a quick hack to allow a PDF to be uploaded to replace an outdated one on Clearer Conscience. As the PDF link on the site is hard-coded, the new PDF must have the same name as the old one. You […]