Now this is something fresh & new when it comes to tackling piracy due to cracks, serials & keygens. Looks like Ahinsa 2.0

PS: I wasn’t unable to find the source of this screenie but I do know this made it to the frontpage of Digg.

When you feel you may want to use the requested url with all the get variables passed (just the way it is in the browser’s address bar), you can use the following code snippet:

private function getCurPageURL()
{
	$pageURL = 'http';
	if ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") {$pageURL .= "s";}
	$pageURL .= "://";
	if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80") {
	$pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
	} else {
	$pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
	}
	return $pageURL;
}

With global economic meltdowns & fluctuating prices, we often can’t rely on human entry to get up to date currency rates in our web applications. Especially if you are building a website which may require your products cost to be displayed in various currencies.

This is a very powerful and light weight PHP class that lets you convert between 65+ currencies using Google Finance (http://www.google.com/finance/converter)

Example:

CurrencyRates::Convert('USD', 'INR');

Output:

49 //Since $1 is Rs. 49

Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes you may want to display some part of the page/code only to IE users. Especially when you may be using some png fix javascript files or the famous iepngfix.htc for IE6 clients. This php function lets you identify an IE browser loading your page:

Example:

<?php
    if(detect_ie())
    { //if internet explorer 6 being used, then apply IE png fix
    ?>
        <!--Begin IE PNG Fix-->
        <style type="text/css">
        #shadow_tp, #shadow_btm {
            behavior: url(iepngfix.htc)
        }
        </style>
        <!--End IE PNG Fix-->        
    <?php
    }
?>

Read the rest of this entry »

Ever wanted to quickly test out a php function or a snippet of code without actually creating a new .php file & running it on a web server? In this article we are going to discuss how to display the output of some php code and display it in a mini command window using some basic batch files.

Preview:

Read the rest of this entry »