Archive for the ‘php’ Category

Today, I would like to tell you how to handle character set problem which occurs during the data fetched from PHP using Ajax mainly on the western characters(European charset).Lots of people asked me about this problem where these European charset is displayed in unreadable format after fetching it from ajax. Full story

The problem of precision lost in floating point number in PHP haunted me for about 10 minutes yesterday but I quickly figured out the problem and solved it as I was aware of this problem. But, I would like to post here it here so that many others PHP programmers, who are not aware with this kind of problem ,get solution easily and don't get stuck with it. Full story

Yesterday Tarquin macey asked me how can we change the value of the textbox based using Ajax and PHP based on the changing value of the dropdown list.Today, I've come up with a solution from him.In this post, you'll see how to get the currency code of a country from PHP using Ajax and this currency code will replace the value of textbox each time the dropdown list changes. Full story

In this post, I'll show you how can you download the multiples files in a zip archive using PHP. I've made a function in PHP where you've to pass the parameters the array of files to be zipped, the second parameter is file name as which zip archive file has to be downloaded and finally the path of files where files to be zipped are located.(assuming that they are all in same folder) Full story

As you might know that this blog and tradepub.com are providing free magazines to the reader of this blog. You can check the free magazines and E-book in the free magazines resource of this blog. You can find a collection of great resources of IT knowledge from here. And, today I'm here to highlight the great E-books from sitepoint.com on essential PHP and JavaScript tips , tricks  and other resources. Full story