Format a number with grouped thousands(please visit number_format in php):
function numberformat($str, $sep=',') { $result = ''; $str = $str.''; $c = 0; $num = strlen($str); for($i=$num-1; $i>=0; $i--) { if($c==3) { $result = $sep.$result; $result = $str[$i].$result; $c = 0; } else { $result = $str[$i].$result; } $c++; } return $result; } //OUT = 1,333,555 echo numberformat(1333555);
Escapes special characters in a string for use in an SQL statement. howewer it check get_magic_quotes_gpc function is enable or no. if true , it strips string from slashes and escaped string from spec...
This function check if an url is valid or not. function is_valid_url($url) { return preg_match('|^http(s)?://[a-z0-9-]+(.[a-z0-9-]+)*(:[0-9]+)?(/.*)?$|i', $url); }...
Translates a number to a short alhanumeric version. e.g.: 9007199254740989 --> PpQXn7COf In most cases this is better than totally random ID generators because this can easily avoid duplicate ID's. Fo...
parse_str() is fine for simple stuff but it's not the same as PHP's built way of creating the $_GET magic variable. Why?!?......
