There are a number of ways to make “clean URLs” work on your site, but this one is pretty straight forward.  It allows you to access /any-page.php by simply going to /any-page.  Just place the following into your .htaccess file (and make sure that mod_rewrite is enabled): Continue »

If you love working with PHP but hate the GD library, you’ll love the Simple Image PHP class we’re releasing today. This class takes the headache out of dealing with images and features over 25 useful methods. Continue »

This is one of the easiest CAPTCHA scripts you will ever use. While it doesn’t obscure the text, it will serve its purpose well for many people who need a low-level CAPTCHA solution. This script requires little-to-no setup. The only dependency is the PHP GD library. Continue »

Here are some great tips that will help any PHP5 developer support UTF-8 in their applications.  This list isn’t comprehensive, but it will allow you to do most basic operations while avoiding troublesome character encoding issues. Continue »

You can easily add some basic headers and send HTML emails using the PHP mail() function, but sometimes the resulting messages don’t seem to display correctly in certain email clients — especially those that don’t support HTML emails.  The best thing to do is send both a plain-text version and an HTML version of your Continue »

PHP is by far my favorite server-side scripting language, so it comes as no surprise that I’m really excited about HipHop for PHP.  HipHop was developed over at Facebook and serves as a means to speed up code execution and reduce server demand.  From the Facebook Developer Blog: Continue »

Here is a short PHP function that removes comments and whitespace from your CSS.  If you happen to be generating your stylesheet dynamically, try wrapping this around the output to reduce the overall size. Continue »

You would think that determining a person’s age would be a very simple task for a PHP developer.  However, when I asked this question for myself I found a variety of solutions that people posted online.  Many of them used large functions with conditionals and other logic that was hard to follow.  After a significant Continue »

Learn how to implement the PHP Spell Checker plugin in TinyMCE. Continue »

Two useful PHP functions to handle file names and extensions. Continue »