Backing up a MySQL database using PHP’s system() & MySQL’s mysqldump
The PHP system() function is used to execute an external program. Because MySQL already has a built-in tool for creating…
How to use PHP To Backup & Restore a MySQL Database Table
This is how to backup and restore a MySQL table using a PHP script. Please note: this is an old…
Read a Word doc using COM
So I managed to write a script to read a Microsoft Word document using PHP CLI and the COM object…
PHP Dynamic year selector
Another post from the archives. After 2009 rolled in and all our sites failed to follow suite because “someone” hard-coded…
PHP CLI “Hello World”
I have only recently begun working with PHP CLI scripts. Executing PHP scripts from the command line is fairly easy…
PHP short tags
Another post from the archives: I am running a WAMP development environment at home and at work. I am always…
PHP / MySQL: storing database credentials in an .ini file
It is recommended that for security reasons you do not include database connection details in your scripts, so where exactly…
Heroku: getting started with PHP
So I started out with the Getting Started for PHP on the Heroku site in my efforts to get into…
Google Code Prettify
I have played with various WordPress plugins for code syntax highlighting, but recently helped answer a query with regards syntax…
Bar-code generator for PHP
Whilst fiddling around with QR Codes, I came across this Bar-code generator for PHP. Minimum requirements: PHP 5 GD2 Extension…