Category Archives: PHP

In this post we will be creating PHP script that will check if an existing variable is an array, to do this we will be using the ‘is_array()’ function. See our array of items for our first example below. In the snippet of PHP code below we are applying the ‘is_array()’ function to check whetherContinue reading “PHP Variables – Check if a variable is an array”

In this post we will be creating PHP script that will check if an existing variable is a string, to do this we will be using the ‘is_string()’ function. For this example our variables will be stored in an array and we will carry out a check on each item within. See our array ofContinue reading “PHP Variables – Check if a variable is a string”

In this post we will be creating PHP script that will check if an existing variable is null, to do this we will be using the ‘is_null()’ PHP function. For this example our variables will be stored in an array and we will carry out a check on each item within. See our array ofContinue reading “PHP Variables – Check if a variable is null”

In this post we will be creating a PHP script that will check if an existing string ends with a certain character or word. To do this we will be using the ‘str_ends_with()’ function which checks if a string ends with a given substring. Our string for the example will be ‘hello world’, see theContinue reading “PHP – Check if a string ends with a substring”

In this post we will be creating PHP script that will check if an existing variable is of a float type, to do this we will be using the ‘is_float()’ function. For this example our variables will be stored in an array and we will carry out a check on each item within. See ourContinue reading “PHP Variables – Check if a variable is a float”

In this post we will be creating a PHP script that will convert a string to a float type. To do this we will be casting the string in to a numeric float type. See the snippet of code for how this is done.

In this post we will be creating a PHP script that will return the client IP address, to do this we will be using the ‘$_SERVER’ variable which contains server and execution environment information The ‘$_SERVER’ is an array and in this post we will be retrieving the ‘REMOTE_ADDR()’ item, see the snippet of codeContinue reading “PHP Server – Get the client IP address”

In this post we will be creating a PHP script that will calculate the difference in days between two given dates. To do this we will be using the date time ‘diff()’ function which returns the difference between two date time objects. See below where we declare our two date time objects. In the snippetContinue reading “PHP Date Time- Get difference in days between two dates”

In this post we will be creating a PHP script that will convert a string to an integer type. To do this we will be casting the string in to a numeric integer type. See the snippet of code for how this is done.

In this post we will be creating a PHP script that will return the current URL, to do this we will be using the ‘$_SERVER’ variable which contains server and execution environment information The ‘$_SERVER’ is an array and in this post we will be retrieving the ‘REQUEST_URI’ item, see the snippet of code belowContinue reading “PHP Server – Get the current URL”