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(Bash) Prevent Access to a Specific File/s in .htaccess - apphp-snippets

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 05:56:00 UTC

This example shows you how to restrict to a specific file or multiple files. Add the following code block and edit the file name/s according to yuor needs.

(Bash) Force www./no-www. in .htaccess - apphp-snippets

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 05:55:00 UTC

This example shows you how to force www. or no-www. using .htaccess file.

(MySQL) Get Random Record Based on Weight - apphp-snippets

Wed, 14 Jun 2017 06:22:21 UTC

This snippet allows you to get random record from given table by weight. To run it, it must have a field named "weight". The more "weight" is assigned, the more often the record is selected. The value of "weight" should be an integer between 1 and 10 (or anything else).

(SQL) Insert or Update Record if Unique Key Already Exists - apphp-snippets

Wed, 14 Jun 2017 06:21:25 UTC

This snippet allows you to insert new record into table. In case a unique key already exists - it updates appropriate fields only, leaving other fields untouched.

(HTML) HTML5 Article Structure with News - apphp-snippets

Mon, 05 Jun 2017 05:06:57 UTC

This example is a full HTML5 article structure. Just copy/paste it into your page to check.

(HTML) Post Data to iFrame with HTML Only - apphp-snippets

Mon, 05 Jun 2017 05:05:58 UTC

To send data into iFrame you don't need JavaScript or anything. You just have the form's target attribute match the iframe's name attribute. The outer page doesn't even reload. Copy this code and test it.

(CSS) Non-Transparent Inside Transparent Elements - apphp-snippets

Tue, 30 May 2017 18:11:29 UTC

If using transparency on a block element it makes the text inside transparent as well. Is there a way you can prevent that from happening? Yes, you may do it by putting the text in another div and setting the opacity to 100%, but that didn't do the job. Although, logically, it would!

(CSS) Align Backgroud Image with Offset in CSS - apphp-snippets

Tue, 30 May 2017 18:10:22 UTC

You may align background image not only to left or top corner, but also use an offset for alignment.

(JavaScript) Display Random Quotes with JavaScript - apphp-snippets

Fri, 26 May 2017 04:42:11 UTC

This snippet code allows you to prevent the viewer from being able to right-click on your page. This can discourage the average user from borrow images or code from your site.

(JavaScript) Blocking Right-Click in Browser with JavaScript - apphp-snippets

Fri, 26 May 2017 04:40:53 UTC

This snippet code allows you to prevent the viewer from being able to right-click on your page. This can discourage the average user from borrow images or code from your site.

(PHP) Calculate Full Size of Directory in PHP - apphp-snippets

Mon, 22 May 2017 18:17:25 UTC

This code allows to calculate the full size of a directory using PHP.

(PHP) WhoIs Query in PHP - apphp-snippets

Mon, 22 May 2017 18:15:03 UTC

This code allows to perform a query to WhoIs service in PHP.

(PHP) Redirect to Another Directory in .htaccess - apphp-snippets

Fri, 26 Feb 2016 06:32:39 UTC

This example shows you how to create redirection o another directory. It may be useful, for example, when you have a project, placed in sub-directory.

(HTML) Turn Off Autocomplete for Input in HTML - apphp-snippets

Tue, 19 Jan 2016 07:10:11 UTC

This would be useful when a text input is one-off or unique. Like a username or email input, one-time use codes, or for when you have built your own auto-suggest/auto-complete feature and need to turn off the browser default.

(CSS) Cross-Browser Gradient in CSS3 - apphp-snippets

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 07:03:12 UTC

The following code will display a cross-browser CSS-gradients. Th add the right selector you can use rgba() for transparency.

(CSS) My own font-face in CSS - apphp-snippets

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 07:02:08 UTC

It allows you to add your own fonts on the page. To convert to different formats use this service Font2Web.

(CSS) My own @font-face in CSS - apphp-snippets

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 06:31:57 UTC

It allows you to add your own fonts on the page. To convert to different formats use this service Font2Web.

(JavaScript) Anti iFrame Buster in JavaScript - apphp-snippets

Wed, 04 Nov 2015 19:10:13 UTC

You know that iFrames are a necessary evil for many of us. When yuo put a third party site in an iframe is always a risk because they can break out of that iframe and redirect the visitor to another location. This code acts as a defense for such cases and prevents them from being able to bust out of the iframe.

(JavaScript) Getting IP Address - apphp-snippets

Wed, 04 Nov 2015 19:08:37 UTC

Sometimes you may want to show the visitor that you are aware of their IP address. You can do so by using few lines of code as shown here. Place the code in any place of your page, where you want the IP address to appear:

(PHP) Calculate Age Using a Birth Date - apphp-snippets

Tue, 13 Oct 2015 05:26:58 UTC

This function gets birth date as an argument and it returns the age of the person; it's very useful when building communities or social media sites.

(PHP) Compress Mltiple CSS Files - apphp-snippets

Tue, 13 Oct 2015 05:24:52 UTC

Usually when you're using different CSS files on your site, they might take a quite long to be loaded. Using this PHP code, you can compress them into a single file with no unnecessary white spaces or comments. Why we need to compress multiple CSS files? The answer is: the compressing procedure may take a less time than a total time of loading each file separately.

(Bash) Error Logging in .htaccess - apphp-snippets

Sun, 27 Jul 2014 18:07:31 UTC

This example shows you how to log errors to a file, and prevent showing them to the user. Make sure that the file exists and you're able to write to it.

(SQL) Calculate Relative Time Ago - apphp-snippets

Sun, 27 Jul 2014 18:06:29 UTC

Here you may find some useful snippets for calculating relative time for different purposes: to get info from a column within certain date, like the latest 7 days, to get time interval etc.

(HTML) Favicon and Apple Icons in HTML - apphp-snippets

Wed, 16 Jul 2014 17:06:16 UTC

The favicon is much normality in our days. Here the "apple-touch-icon" definition which is used when you save a bookmark to your home screen on an apple touch devices such as an iPad or iPhone. The interesting thing is that Android also supports its usage. The standard size for "apple-touch-icon" size is 60px by 60px.

(CSS) Targeting Chrome With CSS - apphp-snippets

Tue, 08 Jul 2014 17:56:26 UTC

This solution is based on Chrome specific CSS extension. Other browsers will ignore this rule.

(JavaScript) Create new Object From Variable in JavaScript - apphp-snippets

Wed, 02 Jul 2014 18:06:43 UTC

This example of code allows you to create a new object in javascript (using simple inheritance) such that the class of the object is defined from a variable. After creating the object you may use it for your purposes.

(PHP) Change Image Properties 'On-The-Fly' - apphp-snippets

Mon, 23 Jun 2014 17:38:32 UTC

Sometimes you may need to change image properties 'on-the-fly'. The best example is when you want to display blog post short description, retrieve the first image and try to turn it into the thumbnail: change some properties and add a special class name.

(PHP) Change Language Automatically According to the Visitor Country - apphp-snippets

Mon, 23 Jun 2014 17:37:02 UTC

This simple code demonstrates how to change automatically site language, according to the visitor's country. If you implement this script in your site it will open the page in the language of your visitor.

(PHP) Remove File Extention from URLs in .htaccess - apphp-snippets

Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:05:42 UTC

This example shows you how to remove file extension from URLs using .htaccess file directives. Remember, that "mod_rewrite" works only on Apache server. Before trying please be sure that you are working on Apache server and the "mod_rewrite" module/extension is enabled.

(PHP) Different Directory Index Page in .htaccess - apphp-snippets

Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:04:37 UTC

We know that normally index.html or index.php is the default page for many servers, when visitor types a directory without specifying a file name. You can change this rule with .htaccess:

(MySQL) Find and Replace with MySQL - apphp-snippets

Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:22:39 UTC

MySQL has a handy and simple string function REPLACE() that allows table data with the matching string to be replaced by new string. This is useful if there is need to search and replace a text string which affects many records or rows, such as change of address, company name, URL or spelling mistake.

(MySQL) Create a Database and Assign a User - apphp-snippets

Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:21:36 UTC

This is a very simple snippet about how to create a database 1st, a user and then assign some privileges to the user to allow him/her to perform some specific actions like insert, create, update, select etc.

(HTML) Button With Line Breaks in HTML - apphp-snippets

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 20:41:01 UTC

To get button with line breaks you can use carriage return characters to break the line: or just
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(HTML) Comments in HTML - apphp-snippets

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 20:40:07 UTC

The syntax is the HTML comment. This is the way to add your own notes into the code which will not display when the HTML is rendered by the browser. It is also a good practice for web-developers to use the comment tags to "hide" scripts from browsers without support for it (so they don't show them as a plain text).

(CSS) Animated Tooltip with CSS - apphp-snippets

Sun, 02 Feb 2014 20:42:41 UTC

This example shows you how to create custom tooltips, using just a pure CSS. In this examples we use "transform" feature of the CSS3 and some other tricks. Also you may find additional tooltip class provided, to show you the way you may customize this code.

(CSS) Prevent Long URL's From Breaking Out with CSS - apphp-snippets

Sun, 02 Feb 2014 20:38:40 UTC

This solution will help you to prevent many issues with your site, when you need to prevent long URL's from breaking out of container.

(JavaScript) Converting a text input to a select with JavaScript - apphp-snippets

Wed, 29 Jan 2014 21:22:50 UTC

Sometimes you need the page dynamically changes a texbox with a dropdown box. On the example below we show you how to perform this work. The first way demonstrates how to do this with remove() and append() jQuery methods and the second shows how to perform the same work with replaceWith() method.

(JavaScript) How To Define Class Private Members in JavaScript - apphp-snippets

Wed, 29 Jan 2014 21:20:39 UTC

Class member encapsulation in JavaScript is very important thing and may be implemented with easy. To define private property or method just use var before the definition or this., if you need to give a public access to property or method.

(PHP) Validate IP Address in PHP - apphp-snippets

Tue, 28 Jan 2014 22:49:45 UTC

This code demonstrates a simple way to validate IP address using preg_match() PHP function. This is a very simple code, that allows you to perform this task quickly with a minimum lines of code.

(PHP) Creating and Parsing JSON Data in PHP - apphp-snippets

Mon, 27 Jan 2014 21:04:35 UTC

This code demonstrates how to create and parse the JSON data format of using array of PHP. It's a very simple code, that allows you to perform this task.

(JavaScript) Focus OnLoad in JavaScript - apphp-snippets

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 18:30:09 UTC

You can put the user's cursor inside a text box or put focus on select box as soon as your page is loaded. This helps ensure that visitors do not 'overlook' an important form item on your site and this snippet only uses one line of code!

(PHP) Get Country By IP Address in PHP - apphp-snippets

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 18:51:57 UTC

This simple function allows you to getect a country code and city of your site visitors, using the www.geoplugin.net service. You may use this data to add default values in registration form or use it for any other purposes, like blocking access to your site from special regions.

(JavaScript) jQuery Loading Fallback - apphp-snippets

Tue, 20 Aug 2013 19:21:41 UTC

Nowadays majority of sites uses the jQuery JavaScript library. A lot of them also make use of Google's hosted version of the library from some reasons: faster loading, better cross site caching etc. However, what if there is ever a problem and jQuery is not loaded from Google? For example when you work on localhost and there is no Internet connection? This simple snippet will help you. It basically checks if jQuery is loaded from Google. If not, then it loads it locally from our own version of jQuery.

(CSS) Center Website Content with CSS - apphp-snippets

Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:52:35 UTC

Today in the days of high-resolution widescreen displays, it's annoying to visit websites that are formatted like it's 1990's. aligned all the way to the left. Make sure your website doesn't suffer the same fate by forcing it;s content to center horizontally and vertically.

(PHP) Custom Error Pages in .htaccess - apphp-snippets

Sun, 18 Aug 2013 19:32:17 UTC

This example shows you how to define custom error pages in .htaccess file and also how to display the error page on your site. You may create separate files for each error, described in Sample 1 or just create the one PHP file for Sample 2. Here the PHP template for dealing with any sort of error, if you want to keep it simple:

(PL/SQL) Search in Tags Set in MySQL - apphp-snippets

Wed, 14 Aug 2013 19:38:55 UTC

Lets say you have a table with field called "tags" that consists from tags separated by commas and you want to check whether it includes a required tag. Here the simplest ways of doing that.

(PL/SQL) Selecting a Random Row from Table in MySQL - apphp-snippets

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:09:43 UTC

Here the simplest way of selecting random rows from the MySQL database with using "ORDER BY RAND()" clause in the query.

(HTML) Multiple File Input in HTML - apphp-snippets

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:44:09 UTC

File inputs can have an attribute of "multiple" which then allows multiple files to be selected in the file section dialog box. Currently only Firefox 3.6+ and WebKit browsers are supporting it.

(HTML) Media Code in HTML5 - apphp-snippets

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:43:11 UTC

This example is a basic design structure for loading multiple video and audio formats for universal work of media content on your page.

(Haskell) Page Structure in HTML5 - apphp-snippets

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:42:07 UTC

This example is a basic HTML5 page structure that you can use for developing of your HTML5 website layout.