SYNTAX: string strtolower (string $mystring);

$myLowercaseString = strtolower ($mystring);

As with all PHP, test to make sure you've implemented correctly. Comments, questions or suggestions? Please leave a comment.

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

You can also use variables for the URL like so:

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

NOTE: The code above has to be processed before any HTML headers, so it needs to be placed above ANY HTML code.

NOTE 2: Watch the code above, depending upon my current CSS in my current theme the single quotes or even double quote may change to fancy quotes which will need to be edited if you cut-n-paste the code.

MORE info available on PHP.net's header manual page

<?php
$myReferer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
?>

NOTE: Watch the code above, depending upon my current CSS in my current theme the single quotes or even double quote may change to fancy quotes which will need to be edited if you cut-n-paste the code.

MORE info available on PHP.net's $_SERVER manual page

Use this:

.allcaps {text-transform: uppercase;}

... and there's no need to re-type a bunch of text links.

MORE INFO

CSS: text-transform on W3Schools site

Here's some PHP to generate paths: both server paths and domain paths good for use in all sorts of ways for include and require statements.

<?
// for INCLUDE statements - this is the local server path
$urlPATH = "http://" . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
$srvPATH = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
include ($srvPATH."/config-settings.php");
?>

More later.

<?
$i = 0;
do
{
// do something
}
while ($i > 0);
i++;
?>

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PHP Do While on PHP.net

This is your .htaccess file entry to do the above redirection, of course the RewriteEngine on command is only needed once before the first redirect... This will work for ONE variable pair

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^article=22$
RewriteRule ^page\.php$ http://www.example.com/apples-and-oranges.php? [R=301,L]

Now if you need to redirect a dynamic URL with more than one name/valu pair like this:

www.example.com/page.php?widget=cellphone22&color=red

You will need to use the following code:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} [&]?widget=cellphone22[&]?
RewriteRule ^page\.php$ www.example.com/cellphone22.php? [R=301,L]

In this last example, &color=22 is ignored.

Resources for this post:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/apache/3365089.htm
http://www.seoverflow.com/blog/seo/setting-up-301-redirects-for-dynamic-urls/

PHP code to get time in YOUR timezone...

<?

$mydatetime = time ();
$offset= 0; // offset in # of hours from desired location
// check the time displayed using $offset = 0 and adjust
// the offset accordingly
$mydatetime = $mydatetime + ($offset * 60 * 60);
echo date ("g:i A", $mydatetime);

?>

Check the PHP Time manual page for formatting the time. This code has only been tested on two implementations. When I wanted to display the local time for a website's "offical time" I couldn't find any simple explanations online.

Comments/feedback are invited.

Obviously, this META tag should be used like others in the head (META tag info)

<meta name="robots" content="noindex">

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Google: Robots Exclusion Protocol

<?

// show this until Dec 31, 2009
$mymonth = date("m");
$myyear = date("Y");
$mycompare = $myyear . $mymonth;
// if its before Jan 2010, show NEW
if ($mycompare < 201001) {

?>

<p>Before 2010!</p>

<? } else { ?>

<p>Its 2010 or later!</p>

<? } ?>