How to get a link to the still image of a YouTube video?
YouTube has multiple servers for serving images of the videos, hosted on the site. However, there is a quick trick to get a URL to any video's still image/thumbnail in YouTube....
Counting the Number of Options in a Dropdown with jQuery
Counting elements in a <select> dropdown is trivial, but often an issue for beginners in jQuery. In this short article, you will find how to easily get the count of <option> elements in a ...
Check If Viewed Through Mobile
On many occasions, you may want to check if the current visitor is browsing your site through a mobile browser. There are a lot of solutions out there (classes, libraries), but the simplest option has...
Get the Current URL of Page with PHP
This simple snippet of code will help you get the full URL of the currently viewed page. function getUrl(){ $domain = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; $url = "http://" . $domain . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; retur...
How to Dynamically Shorten URLs with TinyURL?
The URL shortening service TinyURL.com provides an API for programmatically processing URL shortening requests through your own script....
How to Grab Youtube Video Thumbnail?
Getting the thumbnail of a Youtube video through it’s ID is not that hard. You just have to transform the URL a little bit to get a high quality JPG file, used as a main thumbnail through Youtub...
How to Assign the Same Value to Multiple Variables?
This is a simple tip but most experienced PHP programmers don’t know that it even exists....
How to Fix a “unexpected $end” Error
Sometimes you will get an error similar to this in PHP: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /index.php on line 36 This is most likely caused by a forgotten closing curly bracket (“}...
How to Set a Cookie to Never Expire
Sometimes, while working with Cookies in PHP you may want to make a cookie never expire (e.g. in a rating script where you set a cookie on user’s computers, although it’s not wise to use c...
PHP Login Script Example
This PHP login script example is a very simple login system which you can use as a base for your future projects. You should note that it needs to be secured before using on a live system. Some things...