If you have MAMP installed and working on your Mac, it’s easy to get started with ZEND Framework development. I’ll show you how in this article. Download the framework from here: http://framework.zend.com/downloads/latest Choose the full version without ZEND Server (not necessary as we’re using MAMP). Unpack the download and put it somewhere safe. I’m adding … Read more
Many complex things are extremely simple in PHP – sending mail is one of them. Here’s how: // components for our email $recepients = ‘you@somewhere.com’; $subject = ‘Hello from PHP’; $message = ‘This is a test mail.’; // let’s send it $success = mail($recepients, $subject, $message); if ($success) { echo ‘Mail added to outbox’; } … Read more
Before we execute a shell command from PHP it’s a good idea to test if the server will respond to it. We can do this by making use of the empty() function. The following example consists of a helper function you can call before executing the command in question. Then we call it with the … Read more
If we’re executing shell commands via PHP we need to know if the server is running Windows or Linux. Thanks to a magic constant in PHP we can find out like this: echo PHP_OS; This will give us a single value like Linux Darwin Windows WINNT With that info at hand, we can write a … Read more
file_get_contents() can help us here. It reads a file and stores it in a string. Can be used with local files, as well as online content: $myLocalFile = file_get_contents(‘myfile.html’); $myOnlineFile = file_get_contents(‘http://wpguru.co.uk’); echo myOnline File; // would display the actual website This is different from the file() function which reads the contents of a file … Read more
If we have a string and would like to replace a portion of it, we can use the str_replace() function in PHP. It works like this: str_replace (‘whatToReplace’, ‘theReplacement’, ‘originalText’); It’s easy to remember… but I always get confused when I look this up in the manual. Here’s an example: $originalText = “Now is the … Read more
A UNIX timestamp is something like a 10 digit (or less) integer number which represents the elapsed seconds since the 1st of January 1970 (also known as the Unix Epoch). It’s a very accurate representation of time, but not necessarily something us humans easily understand. A Unix Timestamp looks something like 1367805780. We can use … Read more
To get the directory of the current theme (or child theme) you can use get_stylesheet_directory_uri(). Here’s how to use it. Let’s assume that your WordPress installation lives in http://demo.com, and that your theme is located in a folder named “my-super-theme”. We can assume then that the full URL that points at http://demo.com/wp-content/themes/my-super-theme/ The URL will … Read more
