PHP function to extract components from an URL

You want to extract the protocol, domain name, path, or other significant component of a URL. Use the parse_url() function to split the URL into constituent parts automatically. The parse_url() function is one of PHP's most helpful URL manipulation functions. Ita takes a parameter of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), and splits it into its [...]

Simple trick to extract substrings from a string

Sometimes we need to extract a substring from a long string. PHP provides a powerful function called substr() that allows you to extract a substring from a long string. It takes three parameters: the string to be worked on, a starting index and an optional length. The starting index can be specified as either a [...]

Quick drop down list with 250 countries

Country lists is one of the most common elements in a web form. For example- you have a registration form, but no country drop down list in it ! So, it  looks like an incomplete form and there should be a country name drop-down to get the user country name. You may need to write [...]

Quickway to find max and min value from an array

There are various ways to find max and min value from an array. However, today I am going to show a Quick way to find the max and min value from an array. Hope you like it. First we take a list of numbers in an array. Then sort array list using PHP sort() function. [...]

Convert Color code from HEX to RGB using PHP

Today I am going to show an useful function that converts HEX to RGB of a color . Often we used directly the name of a color like "red","green","yellow" and sometimes we preferred to use the HEX code of a color like "#FFFFFF" for white or "#0000000" for black. However, If you want to use [...]