The text on a screen is harder to read than in a book but short paragraphs keep the content readable. In this tutorial, I’ll explain how to convert or split a long paragraph into short paragraphs with the help of PHP’s built-in functions
Author: BrainBell
Sorting with Foreign Languages
How to sort multibyte string properly with PHP’s sort() function.
Emailing Form Data
Sending emails via PHP mail() function.
Saving Form Data into a File
Learn how to serialize (and unserialize) the form data in PHP for storing it in a file.
Validating Selection Lists
How to create a dropdown list from an array, validate selection lists using the in_array() function and validate multiple lists with array_diff() function.
Localizing Dates
How to localize dates manually or with strftime() function.
How to use the IntlDateFormatter class to handle tasks as internationalized dates, calendar generation, time and date formatting, etc.
Sunset, Sunrise, Transit and Twilight
How to get information about sunset/sunrise, transit and twilight begin/end for a specified date, longitude and latitude.
Using Relative Paths for File Access
Usually, files are opened (or searched) relative to the path of the document. To be sure that you are searching for the current script’s path, you can use a two-step approach: The constant __FILE__ contains the full path of the current script, and the function dirname() determines the directory name portion of a path.
ZipArchive – Zip and Unzip Files and Folders
Let’s create a compressed Zip archive in PHP with ZipArchive class, which provides many features for reading and writing Zip archives.