PHP 4.0 introduced __FILE__ magic constant, which provides the full path and filename of the file. To get directory path only use dirname(__FILE__). For example to include other file in same directory use: [crayon-5cc0b378ce68b002060817/] Later the PHP version 5.3.0 and later versions introduced a new constant called __DIR__ which is the short form of...
Question – How to Append an Item to Array in PHP. How do I append any element to end of the existing Array in PHP? How to push element to array in PHP? This tutorial uses array_push() function to insert or append a new element to end of the Array. PHP – Append Element...
Question: How do I remove last character from a string in PHP script? This tutorial describes 4 methods to remove last character from a string in PHP programming language. You can use any one of the following methods as per the requirements. Don’t Miss – Check If String Contains a Sub String in PHP...
On your system, if you have installed multiple versions of PHP (eg PHP 7.2, 7.1 and 5.6). PHP 7.2 is running as default PHP for Apache and CLI. For any requirement, you need to use PHP 5.6. Then you don’t need to remove PHP 7.2. You can simply switch your PHP version to default...
This tutorial uses PHP strtotime() and date() functions to convert date time format. For example you have stored a date YYYY-MM-DD format in a variable and need to change this to MM-DD-YYYY format. We can achive this by converting date first to seconds using strtotime() function. After that reconstruct date to any format using...
phpMyAdmin is an open source tool widely used for the MySQL database administration. It provides an easy to use graphical user interface. You can easily create, modify, delete database and tables. It also allows managing user and permission. You can also configure database replication using phpMyAdmin. This tutorial helps you to install and configure...
The PHP Composer is a package management tool. It removes the hassle of maintaining PHP packages for an application manually. You can easily install all the required packages using Composer. It maintains a list of required packages in a JSON file called composer.json. This tutorial helps you to install and configure PHP composer on...
The PHP 7.3 is the latest version available for installation on Debian 9 Stretch Linux machine. Ubuntu users can visit our tutorial for installing PHP 7 on Ubuntu. This tutorial is for the Debian 9 Stretch users to install PHP 7.3, 7.2, 7.1 or 5.6 on their system. First of all, you need to...
The PHP cURL is a library used for making HTTP requests. In order to use PHP cURL, you must have installed and enabled libcurl module for PHP on your system. In this tutorial, you will learn how to POST JSON data with PHP cURL requests. Basically, there are 4 steps involved to complete a...
All the installed PHP modules configuration files are available under /etc/php/PHP_VERSION/mods-available directory. You can see the number of files with extension .ini. You must have installed specific PHP modules, you need to enable before using this tutorial. The php-common package provides followings commands to manage PHP modules. phpenmod – Used to enable modules in...