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PHP has a function date where you can specify different ways on how to display the date.  How do you generate current date and display only month and date like ‘September 2010′.  Here is a simple php howto, function curDate() { return date(“Y-m-d”,mktime(date(“h”)+8, date(“i”), date(“s”), date(“m”)  , date(“d”), date(“Y”))); } $now = substr(curDate(),0,7); echo date(“F Y”, [...]

Lately I have been searching  this post on the net about graphics.h in dev c++ and found few resources about it .  So I decided to write how to use graphics.h in dev-c++.  I am expecting that you have already installed bloodshed dev-cpp on your machine.  Graphics.h is a header file found in borlan c [...]

In the past months I was able to handle a LAMP server, this is my second time to handle a UNIX based web server but this time its a lot different because I will will be the one to install and configure the web server.  Our System administrator was the one who installed the latest [...]

Knowing the right MySQL statement is the most important part in having thousands of data in your database, one false move and you can’t undo things.    If you want to change a string or character in your database and doing it manually in thousands or millions of entries then that should consume all of your [...]

Do you want to extract the main domain of a URL?  Here is a function that works well and can be modified easily.  I found this function while searching for a good Regular Expression to fulfill such result. <?php function get_base_domain($url)  { $debug = 0; $base_domain = ”; $G_TLD = array( ‘biz’,'com’,'edu’,'gov’,'info’,'int’,'mil’,'name’,'net’,'org’,'aero’,'asia’,'cat’,'coop’,'jobs’,'mobi’,'museum’, ‘pro’,'tel’,'travel’,'arpa’,'root’,'berlin’,'bzh’,'cym’,'gal’,'geo’,'kid’,'kids’,'lat’,'mail’,'nyc’,'post’,'sco’,'web’,'xxx’, ‘nato’,'example’,'invalid’,'localhost’,'test’,'bitnet’,'csnet’,'ip’,'local’,'onion’,'uucp’, ‘co’ [...]

By Default phpmyadmin can import data on your mysql database up to 2MB of data and beyond that will be an error.  This has been a big problem  by most webmasters and sometimes this can be a barrier to stop improving the sites.  Before I kept on searching what to use to import a large [...]

If you are a web developer and having problems on Installing PHP Curl on Apache with PHP installed on Windows Operating System, below is my version of tonyspecer’s “cURL with PHP and Apache on Windows“.  The steps are simple and direct to the point. I have windows apache version 2.2.14 and PHP Version 5.2.10 installed [...]