PHP email validation
function checkEmail($email)
{
$pattern = “^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$”;
if (eregi($pattern, $email))
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}

function calculateAge($birthday){
return floor((time() – strtotime($birthday))/31556926);
}
$strDOB = ‘1979-10-14′;
echo ‘<br />’.calculateAge($strDOB);

Model-View-Controller (MVC)

Zend_Application, Zend_Application_Bootstrap, Zend_Application_Module, Zend_Application_Resource
Zend_Controller_Front, Zend_Controller_Action, Zend_Controller_Dispatcher, Zend_Controller_Plugin, Zend_Controller_Router
Zend_Form
Zend_Layout, Zend_View, Zend_View_Filter, Zend_View_Helper

The above components make use of the industry standard web application design pattern MVC (which originated with one of [...]

INTRODUCTION TO ZEND FRAMEWORK
Zend Framework was designed and built to improve developer productivity. Unlike other frameworks that require large configuration files to work, most aspects of a Zend Framework application can be defined at runtime using simple PHP commands. This saves developers time because instead of complex configuration files controlling every aspect of the application, [...]

<?php
// Read POST request params into global vars
$to = $_POST['to'];
$from = $_POST['from'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
// Obtain file upload vars
$fileatt = $_FILES['fileatt']['tmp_name'];
$fileatt_type = $_FILES['fileatt']['type'];
$fileatt_name = $_FILES['fileatt']['name'];
$headers = "From: $from";
if (is_uploaded_file($fileatt)) {
// Read the file to be attached ('rb' = read [...]

Hi, I am a web developer and I have customized various eCommerce portals such as Virtue Mart in Joomla, osCommerce etc… But Now I guess the trend has changed entirely…
A fresh new platform for eCommerce have arrived in the web world giving the developers all around the world a sigh of relief.
It’s Magento opensource eCommerce [...]

In an unusual move, software giant Microsoft has entered into a multi-year, multi-phase agreement with open source software developer Zend Technologies to ensure that the popular Web development language PHP runs as well under Windows as it does on Linux and other platforms.
The move is a rare bow to the open source community from Microsoft, [...]

Last week, we had project where we have to install and customize the new osCommerce 2.2rc2a on one of our client server having php5 and apache 2.2
The problem here is that the apache 2.2 by default does not takes the long arrays that is $HTTP_GET_VARS, $HTTP_POST_VARS

PHP is actually a set of extensions that are bundled together in order to make what we currently have, these extensions can be changed. Let’s take for example the XML Writer extension. It is best extension for writing the XML files. A similar extension, XML Reader, has already been attached and allowed in the essential [...]