I have date1 and date2. I am trying to format difference of two dates like in facebook with "ago" such as "1 year 2 month ago" or "5 hours 3 mins ago." A ...

Is there a standard way to make async calls using php? I am looking for an approach to make asynchronous call from my php application. Actually I need to write metrics log so I really do ...

I am kind of confused between PHP Error and Exception. It sounds similar but can not figure out the difference. What is the main difference between the two? Thanks in advance.

I need to capture client user IP address using PHP. I need this specially for my logging and authentication purpose. How do I get client user IP address?

Hi, I have a code which is suppose to be very simple but not working. I am trying to insert '\n' to my data but it not working. In the screen, I see literal '\n' ins ...

I am trying to access php server variable "REQUEST_URI" using $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] for full page url and trying to log into my log into mySql database. But I get t ...

I have a php application where I have dynamic page like category.php?c=1. I mean my pages are dynamic based on parameters. Now, I want to have more meaningful shortcut url like http://my ...

I am using both preg_replace() and str_replace(). And this is more of performance question. I wanted to know which one is good in terms of peformance than the other? Is there is any pref ...

I need to remove any special character like . \ > < etc etc from my string. I want to exclude everything except character and number. What would be the best way to achieve this in ...

I wrote my program in windows environment with PHP - MYSQL. Everything works fine, I am able to compare my retrieved bit field with numeric number. But once I moved my code to Production ...

In ASP world, there use to be Response.Redirect() to redirect to a page. Is there any similar function to redirect in PHP? I am looking for temporary page direction in PHP. This should b ...

Hello I've managed to convert most of my script to PHP 5.3. Some examples of what I changed are below: ----------------------------------------------------------------- ...

Hi, I am trying to implement captcha for our website using php. For this, I am trying to generate random image on the fly. Can anyone please guide what could be the best way to create im ...

Is there way to have configuration file in PHP? I need to store my environment level variable in a config file like my database connection, backend service url etc. When I use to do ASP. ...

Hi, I need to utilize AJAX functionality but I am using PHP for my site. It does not seem like there are any built-in function in PHP like in ASP.NET. Can anyone please guide me on how t ...