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Strong Email Verification

This is a more advanced email verification.

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Password Strength

This function calculates how strong a password choice is. A strong password has a value that is as close to possible to 100.

PHP Simple Excel Table

The purpose of this is pretty simple. Pass it an array with header values and an array of data and it'll create a simple table like spreadsheet. The benefit of this over PHPExcel is that it's smaller and more simple but also that it's not restricted by the number of rows you use. I've had PHPExcel choke on a couple thousand of rows but this will handle them fine. It uses SQLite to store the data in memory before writing to file. So, you must have the SQLite extension turned on. I'm planning on a more robust one that handles individual cells and formatting and such but starting here since I use this kind of thing to dump reports and tables.

Search & Replace Text inside PDF Files in PHP Applications

This technical tip allows developers to replace text in a PDF file using Saaspose Pdf REST API in your PHP applications. Some important steps for performing this task are, enter App SID and App key, build URI, browse pdf file, enter old text, enter new text, Build URI to replace text, Save PDF file on server and Save output stream to disk.

Country Selection List Options w/selected

Function that creates the options for a selection list of countries. Takes input of selected country and sets the option to selected. If nothing else, this should save others a bunch of typing and copy&paste.

Movie To ASCII Movie

This class will take a movie and convert it to an ascii movie (FFMpeg required). Note, output files are about 10x larger than the actual movie, but it is a really cool effect!

Distance Between Two Points on the Earth

This function will calculate the distance between point A (latitude, longitude) and point B (latitude, longitude) returning a distance in miles.

Convert SRTM elevation-data (.hgt) to ASCII / CSV with PHP / CLI

Converts the NASA SRTM-Data in .hgt-Format to ASCII .csv in the Format lat;lon;ele for easier import into databases. All .hgt-files are expected to be in a subdirectory relative to the script named "hgt". Save as converthgt.php, then run in console / command line: php converthgt.php > srtm.csv This will produce a large csv-file from all the .hgt-files in the hgt-subdirectory. The data is grouped by filename with a two-line grouping header.

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Blacklist Lookup

This blacklist lookup function is a modification of this snippet. The difference is, that it returns if it suspects an ip is a spammer. If 50% or more of the lookups think your a spammer, the function returns true otherwise false.

Date Range Overlap Check

Check a date range to see if it overlaps another saved date range.

Twitter Feed Reader

Take a user name, and load the users feed to display on a page.

CacheLayer

Generate a file cache, this is usually good for your database especially on content that doesn't change often.

Test For HTML In A String

Test a string to see if it contains HTML within it.

Extract URL's from HTML

This script will extract urls from an html string, and can either return the urls as they are in the html or as formatted urls with http://

Hash Files

This script enables users/you to get the hash from a file using any hashing algorithm that is included in php and also enables you to verify that it is the same hash as the one you provide. This is useful if you download a file from a site that provided a hash and you want to check if it downloaded successfully.

Daily event using php

Allows you to change something on a daily basis using just php.

Time Ago

Displays how long ago something happened, such as when something was posted. "1 day ago", "2 months ago", etc.

Get Lat & Long values of an address

Functions returns the latitude & longitude values of an address (as an array) when the address is passed to the function (as a string)