Php

functions to know

func_num_args()

empty()

if(!empty($p)){ // if $p is not empty echo 'variable is not empty '; } else { echo 'value is null'; }

unset(); 
isset(); 

if(isset($a)){ echo 'value is set '; } else { echo 'value is not set '; }

trim() 

use for removes the whitespaces from the left part of the string. trim($a);

 explode () ; 

convert strin to array $str = "Rajeev Dhar dwivedi"; $array = explode(" ",$str); print_r($array); outPut :

Array ( [0] => Rajeev [1] => Dhar [2] => dwivedi )

implode(); convert array to string  

$array = array( 'Rajeev' ,'Dhar','Dwived') ;

echo implode(" ",$array); Output : Rajeev Dhar Dwived

date() function  

this function use fot get date from system echo date('Y-M-d');

time()  

this function use for get time from system in mili second echo time();

strip_tags();
func_get_args();

// yes, the argument list can be empty function foo() { // returns an array of all passed arguments $args = func_get_args(); foreach ($args as $k => $v) { echo "arg".($k+1).": $v\n"; } }

glob('*.php');
memory_get_usage()
memory_get_peek_usage()
json_encode($myvar);
json_decode($myvar);
wordwrap() or chunk_split()
ucwords() makes every first letter of every word capital
getallheaders()
array_unique ( array $array [, int $sort_flags = SORT_STRING ] ) Takes an input array and returns a new array without duplicate values.

PHP provides useful magic constants for fetching the current line number (__LINE__), file path (__FILE__), directory path (__DIR__), function name (__FUNCTION__), class name (__CLASS__), method name (__METHOD__) and namespace (__NAMESPACE__).

best practice

The best and safest way is to use mysql_real_escape_string() for all database before it is added to the database. This function makes all strings safe in terms of quotes and other functions that can harm your database or contain malicious code, so use it to be sure you have taken the first step against protection of your data. Another thing you can do is validate all POST and GET strings, never use $_REQUEST, and make sure all form submitted data is of the right type and value before adding it to a database query.

competency

http://www.techinterviews.com/php-interview-questions-and-answers

http://responsivewebsitepro.com/cv/ProveItPHP5TestResults.pdf

http://www.odesk-tests.net/odesk-test-answers/web-development/php-test-answers-2015.html

http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_quiz.asp

http://terrychay.com/article/php-coders.shtml

http://testsolutionok.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_19.html

http://world-earn-news.blogspot.com/p/odesk-php-5-test-answers.html

http://devaprai.blogspot.com/2014/12/php-frontend-developer-test-v2-answer.html

http://www.odesk-answers.com/php-test-2015/

php frameworks TDD and BDD

• microframeworks tutorial
• Service sent events

Curl

http://wiki.uniformserver.com/index.php/PHP_cURL:_GET_%26_POST

best practices

https://phpbestpractices.org/

bits of code I always forget

combining $key $val into WHERE str

<syntaxhighlight> <?php $fruits = array("d" => "lemon", "a" => "orange", "b" => "banana", "c" => "apple");

function array2where($arr){ $str="\n\nWHERE "; foreach($arr as $key=>$val){ $str= $str."`$key`=\"$val\" AND "; } $str=substr($str,0,-4); return $str; } echo(array2where($fruits)); ?> WHERE `d`="lemon" AND `a`="orange" AND `b`="banana" AND `c`="apple" </syntaxhighlight>

howto - change an object to an array

<syntaxhighlight> $thefile=file_get_contents("php://input"); echo $thefile; $json = $thefile; $return_obj->setJson($json); //the true parameter forces it to decode to array instead of object //$thearr = (array) json_decode($thefile) only converts the outer object $thearr = json_decode($thefile,true); </syntaxhighlight>

howto - read command line arguments

<syntaxhighlight lang="php"> <?php echo count($argv); if (count($argv)<2){ //if no command line argument echo("script requires command line argument with name of db to backup"); exit(); } $db = $argv[1]; ?> </syntaxhighlight>

howto - MYSQL -> JSON PDO

<syntaxhighlight> $sth = mysql_query("SELECT ..."); $rows = array(); while($r = mysql_fetch_assoc($sth)) {

   $rows[] = $r;

} print json_encode($rows); </syntaxhighlight> or better from rwky <syntaxhighlight> <?php $pdo=new PDO("mysql:dbname=database;host=127.0.0.1","user","password"); $statement=$pdo->prepare("SELECT * FROM table"); $statement->execute(); $results=$statement->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC); $json=json_encode($results); ?> </syntaxhighlight> as in http://stuff2get.sitebuilt.net/services/getfoodlist.php?repo=tpn&list=groceries&need=1 which gets you:

{"items":[{"stuff":"Blueberries imported or domestic org.","id":"430"},{"stuff":"Rasberries","id":"992"},{"stuff":"Strawberries, org","id":"420"},{"stuff":"Teccino herbal. Coffee, original","id":"876"},{"stuff":"Unsweetened almond milk","id":"110"}]}

<syntaxhighlight> $repo = $_GET['repo']; $list = $_GET['list']; $need = $_GET['need']; ChromePhp::log("stuff="); $sql = "SELECT stuff, id FROM `lists` WHERE repo=? AND list=? AND need=? ORDER BY stuff"; try { $dbh = new PDO("mysql:host=$dbhost;dbname=$dbname", $dbuser, $dbpass); $dbh->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION); $stmt = $dbh->prepare($sql); $stmt->execute(array($repo, $list, $need)); $needlist = $stmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_OBJ); $dbh = null; echo '{"items":'. json_encode($needlist) .'}'; } catch(PDOException $e) { echo '{"error":{"text":'. $e->getMessage() .'}}'; } </syntaxhighlight>

howto - PDO insert

<syntaxhighlight> array( "title"=>$title "userid"=>$userid "post"=>$body ) function pdo_insert($table, $arr=array()) {

 if (!is_array($arr) || !count($arr)) return false;

 // your pdo connection
 $dbh  = '...';
 $bind = ':'.implode(',:', array_keys($arr));
 $sql  = 'insert into '.$table.'('.implode(',', array_keys($arr)).') '.
         'values ('.$bind.')';
 $stmt = $dbh->prepare($sql);
 $stmt->execute(array_combine(explode(',',$bind), array_values($arr)));

} pdo_insert($table, array('title'=>$title, 'userid'=>$user_id, 'post'=>$body)); </syntaxhighlight>

from phpeveryday <syntaxhighlight> <?php // configuration $dbtype = "sqlite"; $dbhost = "localhost"; $dbname = "test"; $dbuser = "root"; $dbpass = "admin"; // database connection $conn = new PDO("mysql:host=$dbhost;dbname=$dbname",$dbuser,$dbpass); // new data $title = 'PHP Security'; $author = 'Jack Hijack'; // query $sql = "INSERT INTO books (title,author) VALUES (:title,:author)"; $q = $conn->prepare($sql); $q->execute(array(':author'=>$author,

                 ':title'=>$title));

?> </syntaxhighlight>

howto - see if a character is in a string

you need the ! to test if $somechar==";" (strcmp returns 0 if true)

• if(!strcmp($somechar, ";")) {

as seen in assess/wikiquiz/wikivo2db.php

to get from text area w/o losing linebreaks

• $apage=nl2br(stripslashes($_POST[apage]));

to iterate through the lines in a string

• foreach (preg_split("/(\r?\n)/", $apage) as $line)

howto - populate multi-dimensional arrays

/*multi-dimensional arrays */
$a = array();
$a[0][0] = "a";
$a[0][1] = "b";
$a[1][0] = "y";
$a[1][1] = "z";

$firephp->log($a, 'nearrtest');

misc

assoc array

   $car["weight"] = "100kg"; 
   $car["year"] = "2004"; 
   $car["price"] = "7000"; 
   $car["discount rebate"] = "12";

multidimensional array

hosted/vocab/quiz/db2egg.php: uses multidimensional arrays

does sorting

• parsemeta.php
• txt2flp.pl
• parsephr.php

refs

get meta tag function

[http://sitebuilt.net/w/index.php?title=Comp&action=edit&section=9 authentication script