Category Archives: PHP

How to compress an image using imagemagick in PHP?

(first instal imagemagick into the server, then it will set the path as follows) $imagemagicpath=’usr/bin’ //usualy this is the path for image magick $source=’images/first.jpg’; //first.jpg is renamed to converted.jpg //Specifying destination path $destination=’images/converted.jpg’; //path for imagemagic function //specify quality here $cmd=$imagemagicpath.”/convert “.$source.” -quality 10% “.$destination; //above line is executing here exec($cmd); this will reduce the… Read More »

HTML Email issue in when using PHP mail () – how to remove u

$message=’<html><body><table>==dynamic generated tr and tds comes here –</table></body></html>’; In this case some times email message should show some unwanted characters like ‘!’ or the entair html table will break in email. Use wordwrap in mail code $message = wordwrap($message, 76);

How to find out previous day in php from current date

$today = ’2011-07-04′; $prvsday = strtotime(‘-1 day’, strtotime($today)); $previousday= date(‘Y-m-d’, $prvsday); echo $previousday; here instead of -1 day we can use +1 day to find out upcoming date.

How to use Stored Procedures in PHP

see this simple example To calculate the area of a circle with given radius R, the following commands can be given delimiter // create function Area (R double) returns double deterministic begin declare A double; set A = R * R * pi(); return A; end // delimiter ; And to call it from php… Read More »

Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() Windows

If you are having the error Call to undefined function curl_init() in Windows, then you have to simply modify a line in apache’s php.ini file. Goto your xaampfolder, find out php.ini in bin folder and open it in a text editor. Find the text extension=php_curl.dll and remove the semi-colon at the start. Now that line… Read More »

how to find out string lenth in php

you can use the function strlen to find out the strength.

structure of stored procedures

Defining procedures or functions is a two-step process: Define the name of the procedure or function, and set its parameters. Define the body of the procedure or function between BEGIN and END statements. Here’s the basic syntax: CREATE PROCEDURE procedure_name ([procedure_parameter[,…]]) routine_body The procedure_parameter is a list of parameters and their directions, composed using the… Read More »

Sample Rest aPi call in php using curl

$service_url = ‘http://mydoubts.com’; $inputdata='<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <username>mydoubts</username> <domain>mydoubts.in</domain> <email>contact@mydoubts.in</email>’; curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(“Content-Type: application/xml”)); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true); // Do a regular HTTP POST curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $inputdata); // Set POST data curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $service_url); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1); // return HTTP headers with response curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $response = curl_exec($curl);

One important mistake for all coders in the execution of REst API call in PHP

You have to remove all space in the request format. There is no space allowed in the input xml.

How to pass data if browser does not support cookies.

In this case you can use Post method see the example below create one php/html file : <html> <body> <form action=”output.php” method=”post”> Name: <input type=”text” name=”name”> <input type=”Submit” name=”Submit”> </form> </body> </html> if you execute the above page values will comes in the output.php file <?php echo $_POST[“name”]; ?>