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Formatting dates can be tricky for the beginning PHP programmer, here’s a few simple examples that will get you started. I’ll go over how to convert from database date formats to traditional date formats and back again, as well as how to test a date using regular expression matching…

Sorry, I couldn’t resist. I’ve been testing receiving data through the socket server I talked about in my last post. If you are testing without a steady stream of incoming data, you may need to generate your own UDP packets to send to your socket server. Here’s a simple script to open [...]

Sockets are the building blocks of networking connections between computers. Today I want to go though how to create a UDP listener (or socket server) in PHP. I recently had to do this to receive GPS data from some black boxes, and had a hard time finding examples of this type of UDP [...]

Regular expressions can be somewhat daunting to the beginning programmer. They really do look scary. But just like the back of your math book, it feels pretty good to look back and realize how far you’ve come. I’m going to give you an example of the power of regular expressions, and this [...]

I’ve had the pleasure over the last year to be the sole creator and implementer of a web-based production tracking system at my work. Written in PHP the system handles tracking of an order through production from production scheduling to delivery. I think the most salient point of all [...]

We all love phpmyadmin it’s a great tool for managing databases, but it’s nice to have a web based query tool that you can allow others to access where they can get and save a query as a bookmark, and not endanger your database security too much. This is a quick and dirty way [...]