10 Super Useful PHP Code Snippets

Code snippets are always useful which saves your precious time and also increase productivity. Today, I’m sharing some super useful PHP code snippets that I've collected over the past months.

Enjoy!

Spam Filter

function is_spam($text, $file, $split = ':', $regex = false){ 
    $handle = fopen($file, 'rb'); 
    $contents = fread($handle, filesize($file)); 
    fclose($handle); 
    $lines = explode("\n", $contents); 
    $arr = array(); 
    foreach($lines as $line){ 
        list($word, $count) = explode($split, $line); 
        if($regex) 
            $arr[$word] = $count; 
        else 
            $arr[preg_quote($word)] = $count; 
    } 
    preg_match_all("~".implode('|', array_keys($arr))."~", $text, $matches); 
    $temp = array(); 
    foreach($matches[0] as $match){ 
        if(!in_array($match, $temp)){ 
            $temp[$match] = $temp[$match] + 1; 
            if($temp[$match] >= $arr[$word]) 
                return true; 
        } 
    } 
    return false; 
} 

$file = 'spam.txt'; 
$str = 'This string has cat, dog word'; 
if(is_spam($str, $file)) 
    echo 'this is spam'; 
else 
    echo 'this is not spam';

ab:3
dog:3
cat:2
monkey:2

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Random Color Generator

function randomColor() { 
    $str = '#'; 
    for($i = 0 ; $i < 6 ; $i++) { 
        $randNum = rand(0 , 15); 
        switch ($randNum) { 
            case 10: $randNum = 'A'; break; 
            case 11: $randNum = 'B'; break; 
            case 12: $randNum = 'C'; break; 
            case 13: $randNum = 'D'; break; 
            case 14: $randNum = 'E'; break; 
            case 15: $randNum = 'F'; break; 
        } 
        $str .= $randNum; 
    } 
    return $str; 
} 
$color = randomColor();

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Download File from Website

set_time_limit(0); 
// Supports all file types 
// URL Here: 
$url = 'http://somsite.com/some_video.flv'; 
$pi = pathinfo($url); 
$ext = $pi['extension']; 
$name = $pi['filename']; 

// create a new cURL resource 
$ch = curl_init(); 

// set URL and other appropriate options 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, true); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); 

// grab URL and pass it to the browser 
$opt = curl_exec($ch); 

// close cURL resource, and free up system resources 
curl_close($ch); 

$saveFile = $name.'.'.$ext; 
if(preg_match("/[^0-9a-z\.\_\-]/i", $saveFile)) 
    $saveFile = md5(microtime(true)).'.'.$ext; 

$handle = fopen($saveFile, 'wb'); 
fwrite($handle, $opt); 
fclose($handle);

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Alexa/Google Page Rank

function page_rank($page, $type = 'alexa'){ 
    switch($type){ 
        case 'alexa': 
            $url = 'http://alexa.com/siteinfo/'; 
            $handle = fopen($url.$page, 'r'); 
        break; 
        case 'google': 
            $url = 'http://google.com/search?client=navclient-auto&ch=6-1484155081&features=Rank&q=info:'; 
            $handle = fopen($url.'http://'.$page, 'r'); 
        break; 
    } 
    $content = stream_get_contents($handle); 
    fclose($handle); 
    $content = preg_replace("~(\n|\t|\s\s+)~",'', $content); 
    switch($type){ 
        case 'alexa': 
            if(preg_match('~\<div class=\"data (down|up)\"\>\<img.+?\>(.+?)\ <\/div\>~im',$content,$matches)){ 
                return $matches[2]; 
            }else{ 
                return FALSE; 
            } 
        break; 
        case 'google': 
            $rank = explode(':',$content); 
            if($rank[2] != '') 
                return $rank[2]; 
            else 
                return FALSE; 
        break; 
        default: 
            return FALSE; 
        break; 
    } 
} 
// Alexa Page Rank: 
echo 'Alexa Rank: '.page_rank('phpsnips.com'); 
echo '
'; 
// Google Page Rank 
echo 'Google Rank: '.page_rank('phpsnips.com', 'google');

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Force File Download

$filename = $_GET['file']; //Get the fileid from the URL 
// Query the file ID 
$query = sprintf("SELECT * FROM tableName WHERE id = '%s'",mysql_real_escape_string($filename)); 
$sql = mysql_query($query); 
if(mysql_num_rows($sql) > 0){ 
    $row = mysql_fetch_array($sql); 
    // Set some headers 
    header("Pragma: public"); 
    header("Expires: 0"); 
    header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0"); 
    header("Content-Type: application/force-download"); 
    header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream"); 
    header("Content-Type: application/download"); 
    header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".basename($row['FileName']).";"); 
    header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"); 
    header("Content-Length: ".filesize($row['FileName'])); 

    @readfile($row['FileName']); 
    exit(0); 
}else{ 
    header("Location: /"); 
    exit; 
}

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Display a User Gravatar from an Email Address

 $gravatar_link = 'http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/' . md5($comment_author_email) . '?s=32';
  echo '<img src="' . $gravatar_link . '" />';

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Get FeedBurner Subscriber Count with cURL

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,'https://feedburner.google.com/api/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?id=7qkrmib4r9rscbplq5qgadiiq4');
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,2);
$content = curl_exec($ch);
$subscribers = get_match('/circulation="(.*)"/isU',$content);
curl_close($ch);

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Time Ago Function

function ago($time)
{
   $periods = array("second", "minute", "hour", "day", "week", "month", "year", "decade");
   $lengths = array("60","60","24","7","4.35","12","10");

   $now = time();

       $difference     = $now - $time;
       $tense         = "ago";

   for($j = 0; $difference >= $lengths[$j] && $j < count($lengths)-1; $j++) {
       $difference /= $lengths[$j];
   }

   $difference = round($difference);

   if($difference != 1) {
       $periods[$j].= "s";
   }

   return "$difference $periods[$j] 'ago' ";
}

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Crop Image

$filename= "test.jpg";
list($w, $h, $type, $attr) = getimagesize($filename);
$src_im = imagecreatefromjpeg($filename);

$src_x = '0';   // begin x
$src_y = '0';   // begin y
$src_w = '100'; // width
$src_h = '100'; // height
$dst_x = '0';   // destination x
$dst_y = '0';   // destination y

$dst_im = imagecreatetruecolor($src_w, $src_h);
$white = imagecolorallocate($dst_im, 255, 255, 255);
imagefill($dst_im, 0, 0, $white);

imagecopy($dst_im, $src_im, $dst_x, $dst_y, $src_x, $src_y, $src_w, $src_h);

header("Content-type: image/png");
imagepng($dst_im);
imagedestroy($dst_im);

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Check if Website is Available

function Visit($url){
       $agent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)";$ch=curl_init();
       curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url );
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
       curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
       curl_setopt ($ch,CURLOPT_VERBOSE,false);
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
       curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
       curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSLVERSION,3);
       curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, FALSE);
       $page=curl_exec($ch);
       //echo curl_error($ch);
       $httpcode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
       curl_close($ch);
       if($httpcode>=200 && $httpcode<300) return true;
       else return false;
}
if (Visit("http://www.google.com"))
       echo "Website OK"."n";
else
       echo "Website DOWN";

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