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Some useful snippets for the Hypertext Preprocessor or better knows as PHP.

 


 Testing if a date is older than n days

<?php
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Rome');
if(strtotime('2014-11-15 17:14:40')<strtotime('-30 days')){
   echo "I am older than 30 days"; 
 } else {
   echo "I am too young, less than 30 days";  
}
?>

 


 A way to read the command line argument

<?php
// testarg.php
// php testarg days=180 parse_str(implode('&', array_slice($argv, 1)), $_GET); echo $_GET['days'] ; ?>

 


 Calculate the elapsed time between two date time

<?php
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Rome');
 
 // Elapsed time - START
$time_start = microtime(true);
for ($x = 0; $x <= 10000000; $x++) {
    
} 
sleep(1.5);

// Elapsed time - END 
$timelapsed=elapsed($time_start);
echo "Elapsed Time: ".$timelapsed;
return "";

/** *******************************************************************************
Calculate a precise time difference. 
	@param string $start result of microtime() 
	@param string $end result of microtime(); if NULL/FALSE/0/'' then it's now 
	@return flat difference in seconds, calculated with minimum precision loss 
*/ 
function elapsed( $start, $end=NULL ) {
	if( !$end ) { 
	    $end= microtime(); 
	}	
	list($start_usec, $start_sec) = explode(" ", $start); 
	list($end_usec, $end_sec) = explode(" ", $end); 
	$diff_sec= intval($end_sec) - intval($start_sec); 
	$diff_usec= floatval($end_usec) - floatval($start_usec); 
	return floatval( $diff_sec ) + $diff_usec; 
}   
?>	

 


Get image height, width and attribute

list($width, $height, $type, $attr) = getimagesize($URLImage); 	
echo  'data-size="'.$width."x".$height.'"';	

 


 

New  Line for command line and web

// newline for CLI and WEB
public function newline() {
        if (PHP_SAPI === 'cli'){ 
		   return PHP_EOL;
		} else{
		   return "<br/>";
		}
 }

// or a simpler way simple
$br = PHP_SAPI === 'cli' ? "\n" : "<br/>";

 

 


 

 PHP Script is running on Linux or Windows?

if (strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS, 0, 3)) === 'WIN') {
    echo 'This is a server using Windows!';
} else {
    echo 'This is a server not using Windows!';
}

 

Force the browser to write text like the CLI session

header("Content-type: text/plain");

 


 

Verify if a class already available

if (!class_exists('ArtResponsiveMenuHelper')) {
	class ArtResponsiveMenuHelper {
...
}

 


 

Retuning multiple parameters

// Returning an array
function wtf($blahblah = true) {
    $var1 = "ONe";
    $var2 = "tWo";

    if($blahblah === true) {
      return $var2;
    }

    if($blahblah == "both") {
      return array($var1, $var2);
    }

    return $var1;
}

echo wtf("both")[0]
//would echo: ONe
echo wtf("both")[1]
//would echo: tWo

list($first, $second) = wtf("both")
// value of $first would be $var1, value of $second would be $var2

 

 

 

 


 

Assigning HTML contents to PHP variables

$str = <<<HTML
<div id="div1">
    <div id="div10"></div>
    <div id="div11"></div>
    <div id="div12"></div>
</div>
HTML;

 

 

 


 

New Line based on CLI or WEB

// 1st way - short function br()
function br() { return (PHP_SAPI === 'cli' ? "\n" : "<br />"); }

// 2nd way - var
$br = PHP_SAPI === 'cli' ? "\n" : "<br/>";

 more on stackoverflow

 

 

 

 

 


To Be Continued... 

Stay tuned, I will add more snippets soon...

 

 

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