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Feb 03,2016

The Most Common Mistakes CakePHP Developers Make : A Tutorial for Beginners

CakePHP is an amazing PHP framework, but it has a steep learning curve! It requires a good amount of research and training to become an expert. I have been fortunate to use CakePHP for over 7 years now, and in that time I’ve had the honor of working with many members of the CakePHP community. In Read More

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Jan 20,2016

Data Encoding: A Guide to UTF-8 for PHP and MySQL

As a MySQL or PHP developer, once you step beyond the comfortable confines of English-only character sets, you quickly find yourself entangled in the wonderfully wacky world of UTF-8. A Quick UTF-8 Primer Unicode is a widely-used computing industry standard that defines a comprehensive mapping of unique numeric code values to the characters in most of today’s written Read More

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Jan 11,2016

Building REST API for Legacy PHP Projects

Building or architecting a REST API is not an easy task, especially when you have to do it for legacy PHP projects. There are a lot of 3rd party libraries nowadays that make it easy to implement a REST API, but integrating them into existing legacy codebases can be rather daunting. And, you don’t always Read More

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Jan 11,2016

Before Debugging PHP That’s Not Working, Consult This List of the 10 Most Common Mistakes That PHP Developers Make

PHP makes it relatively easy to build a web-based system, which is much of the reason for its popularity. But its ease of use notwithstanding, PHP has evolved into quite a sophisticated language with many frameworks, nuances, and subtleties that can bite developers, leading to hours of hair-pulling debugging. This article highlights ten of the more common Read More

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Jan 11,2016

PHP Best Practices and Tips

Manage Your Dependencies in PHP with Composer What Is a Dependency? PHP is a great language to create web projects. One of the things you will see when using PHP is that there is a library for almost anything you need. A dependency in your project is a library or package that your code uses Read More

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Jan 07,2016

Getting the Most Out of Your PHP Log Files: A Practical Guide

It could rightfully be said that logs are one of the most underestimated and underutilized tools at a freelance php developer’s disposal. Despite the wealth of information they can offer, it is not uncommon for logs to be the last place a developer looks when trying to resolve a problem. In truth, PHP log files should in many Read More

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Jan 05,2016

Building an IMAP Email Client with PHP

Developers sometimes run into tasks that require access to email mailboxes. In most cases, this is done using the Internet Message Access Protocol, or IMAP. As a PHP developer, I first turned to PHP’s built in IMAP library, but this library is buggy and impossible to debug or modify. It is also not possible to Read More

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Jan 05,2016

The Vital Guide to PHP Interviewing

The Vital Guide to PHP Interviewing While many can legitimately claim to "know" PHP, those who are true experts in the language are capable of producing software that is much more scalable, functional, robust, and maintainable. This guide offers a sampling of effective questions to help evaluate the breadth and depth of a candidate's mastery Read More

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Jun 10,2015

Show limited words in PHP from string with HTML tags

Hi, Here i have create another function called “truncate”. With this function you can show limited words with HTML tags. I know there is a function in PHP “SUBSTR”. but the main issue i face with this is this will also remove HTML tags, which mean when any tag starts then that tags will not Read More

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Jun 10,2015

SEO friendly URL generator

Hi, here is a function which I create for generating SEO friendly URL. first we have to create a function called “friendlyURL”. here is a code

<?php
function friendlyURL($inputString){
$url = strtolower($inputString);
$patterns = $replacements = array();
$patterns[0] = '/(&amp;|&)/i';
$replacements[0] = '-and-';
$patterns[1] = '/[^a-zA-Z01-9]/i';
$replacements[1] = '-';
$patterns[2] = '/(-+)/i';
$replacements[2] = '-';
$patterns[3] = '/(-$|^-)/i';
$replacements[3] = '';
$url = preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $url);
return $url;
}
?>

<?php

function friendlyURL($inputString){

$url = strtolower($inputString);

$patterns = $replacements = array();

$patterns[0] = '/(&|&)/i';

$replacements[0] = '-and-';

$patterns[1] = '/[^a-zA-Z01-9]/i';

$replacements[1] = '-';

$patterns[2] = '/(-+)/i';

$replacements[2] = '-';

$patterns[3] = '/(-$|^-)/i';

$replacements[3] = '';

$url = preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $url);

return $url;

}

Now this function will convert string into a SEO friendly URL. How to use it?

<?php
echo friendlyURL('hi this is a seo friendly url & it convert/replace special characters.');
?>

<?php

echo friendlyURL('hi this is a seo friendly url & it convert/replace special characters.');

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