Tag: PHP

PHP is a server-side scripting language, and as such, it can be used to perform a wide range of tasks on the server side of a web application. Here are some common things that can be done in PHP: These are just some of the things that can be...

This post show how to convert XML to JSON using PHP code. json_encode() function converts valid XML to JSON Following is example: In this example, we have an empty data.json file and a data.xml with the following content data.xml <staff> <employee> <name id="1">Alice</name> <dob>January 1, 2000</dob> </employee> <employee> <name...

This post shows how to generate CSV output from PHP code. In PHP, the fputcsv() function generates a csv file when it is provided a valid two dimensional array. Following is an example with explanation // create a two dimensional array of data $myarrays = array( array ('Canada', 'China'),...

Recently, I had to build a multilingual portal. Soon I ran into character encoding problems. Gibberish would appear in place of special characters such as umlaut, accent circonflex, etc. Naturally, I checked out PHP manual, MySQL manual, blogs etc. The solution is easy but the problem needs to be...