PHP

A lot of code uses strlen to get the size of a string. The problem: strlen returns the number of bytes, not the number of characters. As soon as a string contains accented letters or emojis, the result is wrong. The problem with strlen In UTF-8, a character such as “é” takes two bytes, so … Read more

A small function to replace accented characters with their unaccented equivalent. function normalize_str($str) { $invalid = array(‘Š’=>’S’, ‘š’=>’s’, ‘Đ’=>’Dj’, ‘đ’=>’dj’, ‘Ž’=>’Z’, ‘ž’=>’z’, ‘Č’=>’C’, ‘č’=>’c’, ‘Ć’=>’C’, ‘ć’=>’c’, ‘À’=>’A’, ‘Á’=>’A’, ‘Â’=>’A’, ‘Ã’=>’A’, ‘Ä’=>’AE’, ‘Å’=>’A’, ‘Æ’=>’A’, ‘Ç’=>’C’, ‘È’=>’E’, ‘É’=>’E’, ‘Ê’=>’E’, ‘Ë’=>’E’, ‘Ì’=>’I’, ‘Í’=>’I’, ‘Î’=>’I’, ‘Ï’=>’I’, ‘Ñ’=>’N’, ‘Ò’=>’O’, ‘Ó’=>’O’, ‘Ô’=>’O’, ‘Õ’=>’O’, ‘Ö’=>’OE’, ‘Ø’=>’O’, ‘Ù’=>’U’, ‘Ú’=>’U’, ‘Û’=>’U’, ‘Ü’=>’UE’, ‘Ý’=>’Y’, ‘Þ’=>’B’, … Read more

To effectively remove special characters in a string, just use the preg_replace method. $string = preg_replace(‘/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/s’, ”, $string);

Using the getElementsByTagName method to navigate and find the child in question. $number_orders = $image_1->getElementsByTagName(‘number_order’); foreach ($number_orders as $key => $value) { $value->nodeValue = “teaser”; }

To authenticate a cURL request in PHP, the option to know is CURLOPT_USERPWD. It sends a username / password pair in the user:password format. Basic authentication $ch = curl_init(‘https://exemple.com/api’); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, ‘utilisateur:motdepasse’); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5); $reponse = curl_exec($ch); if ($reponse === false) { throw new RuntimeException(curl_error($ch)); } curl_close($ch); Setting … Read more