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PHP Random Password Maker

The HTML and PHP coding in box below generates strong passwords:

<form action="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);?>#13" method="POST"> <i style="color:Crimson;"><b>Password Generator</b></i><br /> Password Length: <input type="number" name="length" min="4" max="16" value="12"><br> <input type="checkbox" name="nums" value="nums" checked>Include Numbers<br> <input type="checkbox" name="special" value="special" checked>Include Special Characters<br> <input type="submit" name="sub" value="Generate"> </form>



<?php
if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST'){
    if(isset($_POST['nums']) && isset($_POST['special']))
    $string = 'abcdefghjkmnpqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZ123456789!#$@%&()_+';
    else if (isset($_POST['nums'])) $string = 'abcdefghjkmnpqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZ123456789';
    else if (isset($_POST['special'])) $string = 'abcdefghjkmnpqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZ!#$@%&()_+';
    else $string = 'abcdefghjkmnpqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZ';
    $length = $_POST['length'];
    $password = "";
    for ($i= 0; $i<$length;$i++){
        $password = $password.$string[mt_rand(0, strlen($string)-1)];
}
    echo $password;
}
  ?>

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PHP Header Location

The PHP coding in box below redirects to a URL:



<?php header("Location: current.php"); ?>

<?php header("Location: http://www.example.com/");?>

<?php
  header("Refresh: 5; url=http://www.example.com"); //will redirect after 5 seconds
?>

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PHP Server And Visitor Info

The PHP code in box below returns server and visitor information:



<?php
echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
echo "<br>";
echo $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
echo "<br>";
echo $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
echo "<br>";
echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
echo "<br>";
echo $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
echo "<br>";
echo $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
?>

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PHP Page Last Updated

The PHP code returns the last date page updated:



<?php
$file = $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"];
$break = Explode('/', $file);
$pfile = $break[count($break) - 1];
//echo $pfile;
echo "<small style=font-size:10px>";
echo "Page Last Updated " .date("M j, Y",filemtime($pfile));
echo "</small>";
?>

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PHP Visitor Zip File Download

The 'PHP' code below allows for users to download a zip file:

<div class='container'> <h1>Create and Download Zip file using PHP</h1> <form method='post' action='thumbs.zip'>  <input type='submit' name='download' value='Download'/> </form> </div> <a type="submit" href="thumbs.zip" download>Download</a>


 
<?php
//Create an object from the ZipArchive class.
$zipArchive = new ZipArchive();
 
//The full path to where we want to save the zip file.
$zipFilePath = 'thumbs.zip';
 
//Call the open function.
$status = $zipArchive->open($zipFilePath,  ZipArchive::CREATE);
 
 
//An array of files that we want to add to our zip archive.
//You should list the full path to each file.
$filesToAdd = array(
    'blogthumbs/thumb-1.jpg',
    'blogthumbs/thumb-2.jpg',
    'blogthumbs/thumb-3.jpg',
    'blogthumbs/thumb-4.jpg',
    'blogthumbs/thumb-5.jpg',
    'blogthumbs/thumb-6.jpg',
    'blogthumbs/thumb-7.jpg',
    'blogthumbs/thumb-8.jpg',
    'blogthumbs/thumb-9.jpg',
    'blogthumbs/thumb-10.jpg',
    'blogthumbs/thumb-11.jpg',
    'blogthumbs/thumb-12.jpg'
);
 
//Add our files to the archive by using the addFile function.
foreach($filesToAdd as $fileToAdd){
    //Add the file in question using the addFile function.
    $zipArchive->addFile($fileToAdd);
}
 
//Finally, close the active archive.
$zipArchive->close();
//exit;
?>

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PHP Show All Images In Folder

The 'PHP' code below uses glob to get all image files from a directory use (*.*). Use (*.jpg) to only get .jpg files. Good for .jpg .png .gif or any extension:



<?php
$dir_name = "path/to/image/folder/";
$images = glob($dir_name."*.*");
foreach($images as $image) {
   echo "<img src="" /><br />";
}
?>

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PHP Write Visitor ip To File

The PHP code below gets the website visitors ip address and writes the date and ip to "visitors.txt":



<?php
$line = date('M j Y g:i:s a T ') . " - $_SERVER[REMOTE_ADDR] - $_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]";
file_put_contents('visitors.txt', $line . PHP_EOL, FILE_APPEND);
?>

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PHP Form HtmlSpecialChars

The highlighted code below is used in your contact form PHP to remove html tags (security):



<form method="post" action="<?php echo htmlspecialchars("sendmail.php");?>"></form>

PHP Footer Copyright Year

The code below is an auto copyright update for the footer in websites: see php.net for more.



© Copyright 2017-<?php echo date("Y");?>

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PHP Show Source

The codes below can be used to return source code or PHP in external web files:



<?php show_source("page.php");?>


  
<?php highlight_file("page.php");?>

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PHP Highlight File

The top code in box below returns highlited code like the lower result:


<?php highlight_string('<?php $var = "This is a string."; echo $var;?>');?>

returns:


<?php $var = "This is a string."; echo $var;?>

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PHP All Text File Lines

The code below gets all lines from $url.txt file in directory "snips" and makes a link list of them:



<?php $url="https://" . htmlspecialchars($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"],ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8"); $url=str_replace(array($query,"https://","http://","www.","/","yoursite.com","code",".php"),\, $url);?>
<!-- 2 Card -->
<div class="rtcontainer">
<div class="rightbg">
<h4 class="glow"><a href="<?php echo "$url.php"; ?>" title="<?php echo "$url"; ?>"><?php echo "$url"; ?></a></h4>
</div>
<?php
// get current directory path
$dirpath = "snips/*$url.txt";

// copy filenames to array
$files = array();
$files = glob($dirpath);

foreach($files as $item){
    $all_lines = file($item);
    $file1 = "$item";
$lines = file($file1);
foreach($lines as $line_num => $line){
          $link = str_replace(" ", "-", $line);
            echo "<a href=$url.php#$link>$line</a><br />";
    }
}
?>

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PHP Specific Text File Lines

The code below gets lines [0] and [2] from every .txt file in directory "comments":



<?php
// get current directory path
$dirpath = "comments/*.txt";

// copy filenames to array
$files = array();
$files = glob($dirpath);

// sort files by last modified date
usort($files, function($x, $y) {
    return filemtime($x) < filemtime($y);
});

foreach($files as $item){
             // echo basename($item) . " => Posted " . @date("F d, Y, H:i:s", filemtime($item)) . "<br/>";

      $all_lines = file($item);
            echo "<h5>";
            echo "<span>ok $all_lines[0]</span>";
            echo "</h5>";
            echo  @date($date, "F d, Y, g:i a T", filemtime($item)) . "<br/>";
            echo "<p>";
            echo $all_lines[2];
            echo "</p>";
}
?>

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PHP Server Date Time Zone

The code below returns Server Pacific Time (PST): May 12, 2021, 10:31 pm PDT



<?php $zone = date("F d, Y, g:i a T",strtotime($date. " " .$timezone)); 
echo $zone; ?>

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PHP Local Date Time Zone

The code below returns Local Mountain Time (MST): May 12, 2021, 11:31 pm MDT



<?php
$zone = date_create("", timezone_open("America/Denver"));
date_timezone_set($zone, timezone_open("America/Denver"));
echo date_format($zone, "F d, Y, g:i a T") . "\n";
?>

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PHP Sanitized Back Link

Page back like two examples above. But with text link. And sanitized http referrer: back



<?php
  $url = htmlspecialchars($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]);
  echo "<a href=$url>back</a>"; 
?>

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PHP Visitor Zip File Download

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PHP Show All Images In Folder

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PHP Write Visitor ip To File

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PHP Form HtmlSpecialChars

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PHP Footer Copyright Year

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PHP Show Source

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PHP Highlight File

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PHP All Text File Lines

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PHP Sanitized Back Link

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