How to Auto Post on Facebook with PHP
In a previous post I wrote about post automation on Twitter using PHP. The whole procedure is similar. You have to create a Facebook app and you need a PHP…
How to Auto Post on Twitter with PHP
Manually post to social networks is probably better than to use an automated method. But, if you post many new topics every day, automated post is practically inevitable. Twitter, as…
Determine PHP script Invocation: CLI or by the Web Server
In most cases you can distinguish if a PHP script was invoked from the command line (or Cron) or by the web server, using php_sapi_name(). php_sapi_name() will return cli on…
Replace accented characters with non accented with PHP
Sometimes you need to replace accented characters with non accented, for example when you want to perform an accent insensitive search. A solution could be the following function: <?php /**…
Check if a string represents a valid Date or Time with PHP
PHP DateTime class, available with PHP versions greater than 5.2 is very powerful. As an example, it ts very easy to check if a string represents a valid date or…