PHP command-line interface (CLI) includes a nifty option to quickly check for any syntax errors in a source code file. A simple check for a single file is given below. The option flag to check is -l (lowercase ‘L’).
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Quickly find all links on a web page
The following PHP script will quickly find all the links on a web page, removing any duplicates and also giving the total count for any duplicate links found.
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How do MVC routers work
A MVC Router class or a Dispatcher inspects the URL of an HTTP request and attempts to match individual URL components to a Controller and a method defined in that controller, passing along any arguments to the method defined.
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Convert CSV to Excel in PHP
During a recent data conversion project I needed to convert around 250 CSV files to Excel (xls) format. As this was a PHP project I decided to write a small PHP script using the PhpSpreadsheet library.
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PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser Script
In this post I have explained some elements to scrap data from external websites.
Simple HTML DOM parser is a PHP 5+ class which is useful to manipulate HTML elements. This class can work with both valid HTML and HTML pages that do not pass W3C validation. You can find elements by ids, classes, tags and many more. You can also add, delete or alter DOM elements. The only one thing you should care about is memory leaks – but you can avoid memory leaks as explained later.
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Creating custom stream filters in PHP
In this post we will see how to create a custom stream filter. Streams, first introduced in PHP 4.3, provide an abstration layer for file access. A number of different resources besides files – like network connections, compression protocols etc. can be regarded as “streams” of data which can be serially read and written to.
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