If you ever need to randomise a PHP array, and want to do it in one line, use the shuffle() function. It’s especially useful when you just want to draw one array member randomly, like in a lottery or something.
$values = array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10); shuffle($values); //randomise the array members echo array_pop($values); //outputs a random number from $values
This little known and arguably terribly named function “array_chunk” is a hidden gem. Continue reading
Quick code post with a really useful little function, all it does it return a MySQL timestamp value of ‘now’. It’s useful if you haven’t already committed the format to memory, which sadly I have already… but still, it’s good to have in a common function library.
function mysqlnow() {
return date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
}Another quick code post, this function when run will redirect the current page to the https equivalent (if it isn’t already):
This is a really quick post just so I have it saved somewhere. A simple function I wrote to track a link but also then open the link in a new window instead of the same one (even if you used a target=_blank)
Feel free to use it, change it, whatever!
– K
Here’s a really simple way to get the first and last dates of last month in PHP using strtotime. This’ll also format the dates correctly to use in comparisons with MySQL ‘TIMESTAMP’ fields! Nifty eh?
$lastmonth = strtotime("last month");
$fromdate = date('Ym01 00:00:00',$lastmonth);
$todate = date('Ymt 23:59:59',$lastmonth);
echo($fromdate.' to '.$todate);