Passing variables with a url is such a frequent thing programmers do that most of you may think this post is unwarranted. We call this method of passing variables as GET, the other being POST. It is one of those things which can be easily done in php. Lets take an example. You are to [...]

Net_Whois lets you query a internet name directory service in a easy to use manner. WHOIS is a protocol which is widely used to determine the owner of a domain name, an IP address by querying an official name database. One possible application I can think of is to see if DNS servers are set [...]

PEAR’s Net_Ping is a niffty wrapper class for executing ping calls from PHP. You can use it to check if a remote server is responding correctly. The library can be download from  here. Installation Net_Ping being a Pear package we will use the Pear installer to download and install it. I recommend to always use [...]

A quick tip for reading raw http POST data in PHP. For example if we have a xml posted to a page, we can read the raw data with the following code. $xml = file_get_contents(’php://input’); We could use $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA instead, but many times it does not work due to some php.ini settings. Note that ‘php://input’ [...]