Case insensitive PHP in_array()
Simple function for using in_array() with case insensitive querying. function i_in_array($needle, $haystack) { return in_array(strtolower($needle), array_map("strtolower", $haystack)); }
Apache PHP mkdir not writable?
If you ever find that you are creating a folder with PHP, and its immediately not writeable by Apache, then…
Add a path to the PHP include path
I recently wanted to add a Zend library to a project without adding the entire framework. I found that internally,…
Compile php_imap and mssql for PHP on Mac
IMAP To get imap support in PHP on your Mac, you need to get the php_imap module compiled for your…
PHP strip certain tags with strip_tags
You cannot strip a certain list of tags with PHP’s strip_tags() function, you can only strip ‘all but’ tags. So…
Errors trying to access Google IMAP through PHP
imap_open() [function.imap-open]: Couldn't open stream {imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl}INBOX This error /can/ be missleading. I thought something was up with the stream (guessing…
Reload httpd config without restarting the service
So you’ve made changes to your Apache config, but there are hundreds of uses currently online. To reload the config…
AllowEncodedSlashes not taking effect?
If you are switching on the AllowEncodedSlashes setting in the apache conf file, and it doesn’t seem to be making…
PHP Setting Error Reporting at runtime
You can use the PHP function error_reporting() at run time to set the level of error reporting in your application.…
Convert HTML table to Excel XLS
I recently needed to update a page that dumped a HTML table into Excel – and found it dumped everything,…