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Windows: How to install and setup XDebug in PHP Eclipse?

Mukesh — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:22:54 +0000

PHPEclipse is a PHP development plugin for the Eclipse IDE Framework. And, XDebug is a PHP extension which provides debugging and profiling capabilities.

I am using Windows 7 Operating System and WAMP Server.

Install XDebug in Windows

- Create a php file with the code phpinfo().
- Open the newly created file in a browser. This outputs information about PHP’s configuration.
- Select All (CTRL + A)
- Copy (CTRL + C)
- Open http://xdebug.org/find-binary.php
- Paste in the textarea present in the page of the above link. Note: Do not paste the raw HTML (from view-source).
- Click ‘Analyse’ button.

You will get the installation instruction based on your php configuration. I got something like this:-

1. Download php_xdebug-2.1.2-5.3-vc9-x86_64.dll
2. Move the downloaded file to c:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.4\ext
3. Update C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.17\bin\php.ini and change the line
zend_extension = c:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.4\ext\php_xdebug-2.1.2-5.3-vc9-x86_64.dll
4. Restart the webserver

- You should also add the following line in php.ini file.
xdebug.remote_enable = 1
- Restart the webserver

Now, you have installed XDebug in your Windows OS. You also need to make some configuration settings (adjusting preferences) in PHP Eclipse to make XDebug work in it. I have previously written a post on installing and setting up XDebug in PHP Eclipse in Ubuntu Linux. You can follow the steps on PHP Eclipse configuration from that link. It (PHP Eclipse settings) is the same way for both Linux and Windows.

Click here for the link

Hope it helps. Thanks.

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Ubuntu Linux: How to install and setup XDebug in PHP Eclipse? [IMAGES]

Mukesh — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:56:47 +0000

PHPEclipse is a PHP development plugin for the Eclipse IDE Framework. And, XDebug is a PHP extension which provides debugging and profiling capabilities.

I am using Ubuntu Operating System. This article provides a step-by-step guide on installing and setting up XDebug in PHP Eclipse in Ubuntu.

Install XDebug in Ubuntu

Open terminal and type the following command:-

sudo apt-get install php5-xdebug

This will install XDebug.

Update xdebug.ini file

Type the following command on terminal to open xdebug.ini for edit:-

sudo gedit /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/xdebug.ini

Add the following lines in it:-

xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_mode=req
xdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1
xdebug.remote_port=9000

Restart Apache

Type any one of the following command on terminal to restart apache:-

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

or,

sudo service apache2 restart

We have now installed XDebug and made necessary settings in its ini file as well. Now, we will see how to make necessary settings for XDebug in PHP Eclipse.

Eclipse Settings

- Open Eclipse IDE
- Go to Window -> Preferences
- On left sidebar, click ‘Debug’ menu present under ‘PHP’ menu (PHP -> Debug)
- Click ‘PHP Executables‘ link as highlighted in the figure below.

- A new window will popup. Add the following:-

Name = php5
Executable path = /urs/bin/php5
PHP debugger = XDebug
Leave other fields as they are (without any changes).

- Uncheck ‘Break at First Line‘ as shown in the figure below.

- On left sidebar of ‘Preferences’, click ‘PHP Servers‘ menu present under ‘PHP’ menu. You will see the following screen.

- If you keep your webserver URL as ‘http://localhost‘ then you can skip this step. Otherwise click on the ‘Edit’ button. Then, you will see the following screen.

- I am updating the URL to ‘http://127.0.0.1‘

- On left sidebar of Preferences, there is a search bar on top. Search for ‘browser’ and you will see the following screen. Click on ‘Web Browser‘ present under ‘General’ menu. And, you will see the following screen. Note that, here you have to select ‘Use external web browser’ and then click OK.

- On PHP Eclipse, under menu bar, you will see the following debug icon.

- Click on the debug icon and you will see a dropdown menu. Click ‘Debug Configurations‘ menu from it. Then you will see the following screen.

- In the figure above, I have already performed some necessary steps. Here are they :-
- Right click on ‘PHP Web Page‘ and select ‘New’.
- Name it your new web page debug configuration. Like in the figure below, I have named my configuration as ‘magento1510′. On my web root, I have a folder/project named ‘magento1510′. I have given the File path to the index file of my project. So, it is ‘/magento1510/index.php’.

- Click ‘Apply’.

All the necessary settings have been completed. Now, you are ready to create breakpoints and start debugging.

Hope it helps. Thanks.

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PHP: Easily send email with PHPMailer

Mukesh — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:29:56 +0000

PHPMailer is a PHP class for PHP that provides a package of functions to send email. It is an efficient way to send e-mail within PHP. The following are some features of PHPMailer:-

- Sending HTML email
- Sending email with attachments
- Sending email to multiple recepients via to, CC, BCC, etc
- Supports nearly all possiblities to send email: mail(), Sendmail, qmail & direct to SMTP server

Download PHPMailer

For PHP 4 | For PHP 5 and above

Sample Code Example

Note isMail() function in the code. This indicates that email is to be sent through mail() function of php.

Sending email using mail() function

require_once('phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php');

$mail = new PHPMailer(); // defaults to using php "mail()"

// this indicates that mail() function is to be used to send email
$mail->IsMail();

$body = "Test body message";
$mail->AddAddress("yourname@example.com", "John Doe");
$mail->Subject    = "PHPMailer Test Subject via mail(), basic";
$mail->MsgHTML($body);

if(!$mail->Send()) {
  echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
  echo "Message sent!";
}

Sending email using SMTP

Along with using SMTP to send email, other functions are also being used. Like, adding reply-to address and from address. Also, notice that multiple reply-to address and multiple to-address are being added. Attachment function is also being included in the below code. You can add multiple attachment.

require_once('phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php');

$mail = new PHPMailer(); // defaults to using php "mail()"

$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Host = "smtp.example.com";

/**
 * optional
 * used only when SMTP requires authentication
 * if no authentication required then
 * you can set below as: SMTPAuth = false
 */
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = 'smtp_username';
$mail->Password = 'smtp_password';

$mail->AddReplyTo("name@yourdomain.com","First Last");
$mail->AddReplyTo("name2@yourdomain.com","First Last2");

$mail->SetFrom('name@yourdomain.com', 'First Last');

$body = "Test body message";

$mail->AddAddress("yourname@example.com", "John Doe");
$mail->AddAddress("yourname2@example.com", "John Doe2");

$mail->Subject    = "PHPMailer Test Subject via mail(), basic";
$mail->MsgHTML($body);

$mail->AddAttachment("images/phpmailer.gif");      // attachment
$mail->AddAttachment("images/phpmailer_mini.gif"); // attachment

if(!$mail->Send()) {
  echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
  echo "Message sent!";
}

Download PHPMailer

For PHP 4 | For PHP 5 and above

Hope it helps. Thanks.

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PHP: Generating Multiple Random String

Mukesh — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:23:22 +0000

Here is a quick way to generate random strings in PHP. I will be showing how you can generate multiple random strings at once. You can specify the number of letters in the random string generated. You can also specify the total number of words you want to generate.

I have used str_shuffle function to shuffle the string and then substr function is used to fetch a portion of the string.

Here is the code:-

// string from which random strings are generated
$string = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz';

// result array of random strings
$result = array();

// number of letters in the random string to be generated
$letters = 3;

// total number of word you want to generate
$num = 10;

for ($i=0;$i<$num;$i++) {
	$result[] = substr(str_shuffle($string), 0, $letters);
}

echo ""; print_r($result); echo "";

Hope it helps. Thanks.

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PHP MaxMind GeoIP: Get country, city, postal code & much more by IP Address

Mukesh — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:51:16 +0000

This article describes how to get country and city information using MaxMind‘s GeoIP technology. You provide the IP address of the visitor and GeoIP can give you country and city information for that IP address.

About MaxMind

Founded in 2002, MaxMind is an industry-leading provider of geolocation and online fraud detection tools. MaxMind provides its geolocation technology through the GeoIP brand.

What is GeoIP?

GeoIP® is the proprietary technology that drives MaxMind’s IP geolocation data and services. GeoIP provides businesses with a non-invasive way to determine geographical and other information about their Internet visitors in real-time. When a person visits your website, GeoIP can determine which country, region, city, postal code, and area code the visitor is coming from. Furthermore, GeoIP can provide information such as longitude/latitude, connection speed, ISP, company name, domain name, and whether the IP address is an anonymous proxy or satellite provider.

They have both free and paid service of GeoIP. This article uses the free version of GeoIP.

Get country name and country code by IP address

You need to include two files: geoip.inc and GeoIP.dat

Download: geoip.inc | GeoIP.dat

/**
 * Lookup the country by IP Address
 * This will only fetch country code and country name
 */

include("include/geoip.inc");

$gi = geoip_open("include/GeoIP.dat", GEOIP_STANDARD);

echo "Getting Country Code and Name by IP Address 

";

$ip = "24.24.24.24";
echo "IP: ". $ip . "
";
echo "Country Code: " . geoip_country_code_by_addr($gi, $ip) . "
" .
     "Country Name: " . geoip_country_name_by_addr($gi, $ip) . "

";

$ip = "80.24.24.24";
echo "IP: " . $ip . "
";
echo "Country Code: " . geoip_country_code_by_addr($gi, $ip) . "
" .
     "Country Name: " . geoip_country_name_by_addr($gi, $ip) . "

";

geoip_close($gi);

Get Country and City detail by IP address

You can get Country, Region, City name and code, Postal code, Latitude, Longitude, Metro code and Area code by IP address.

You need to include three files: geoipcity.inc, geoipregionvars.php and GeoLiteCity.dat

Download: geoipcity.inc | geoipregionvars.inc | GeoLiteCity.dat

/**
 * Querying against GeoIP/Lite City
 * This will fetch country along with city information
 */ 

include("include/geoipcity.inc");
include("include/geoipregionvars.php");

$giCity = geoip_open("include/GeoLiteCity.dat",GEOIP_STANDARD);

$ip = "12.215.42.19";
$record = geoip_record_by_addr($giCity, $ip);

echo "Getting Country and City detail by IP Address 

";

echo "IP: " . $ip . "

";

echo "Country Code: " . $record->country_code .  "
" .
	 "Country Code3: " . $record->country_code . "
" .
	 "Country Name: " . $record->country_name . "
" .
	 "Region Code: " . $record->region . "
" .
	 "Region Name: " . $GEOIP_REGION_NAME[$record->country_code][$record->region] . "
" .
	 "City: " . $record->city . "
" .
	 "Postal Code: " . $record->postal_code . "
" .
	 "Latitude: " . $record->latitude . "
" .
	 "Longitude: " . $record->longitude . "
" .
	 "Metro Code: " . $record->metro_code . "
" .
	 "Area Code: " . $record->area_code . "
" ;  

geoip_close($giCity);

Get timezone by country and region code

You can get timezone for any country using the country code. You can also use region code for getting region wise timezone as well.

You need to include one file: timezone.php

Download: timezone.php

require("include/timezone.php");

echo get_time_zone("US","WV");
echo "
";
echo get_time_zone("NP","");

You can download the php api with sample code files from: http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/php/

Cheers & Enjoy!

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PHP 5.3 & Magento Older Versions: How to use them together?

Mukesh — Tue, 24 May 2011 08:22:38 +0000

Magento works fine in PHP 5.3 from versions 1.4 and later. But, error is displayed in different pages when we use older versions (prior to 1.4) of Magento in PHP 5.3.

This is because some php functions are deprecated in PHP 5.3 and those functions have been used in Magento Older Versions.

I tested Magento version 1.3.2.4 in PHP 5.3 and encoutered the following errors. The solution is also posted along with each error:-

FRONTEND SECTION

File: /lib/Varien/Object.php
Line: 484

Change From:

public function __toString(array $arrAttributes = array(), $valueSeparator=',')

To:

public function __invoke(array $arrAttributes = array(), $valueSeparator=',')

File: /app/code/core/Mage/Core/Controller/Request/Http.php
Line: 274

Change From:

$host = split(':', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);

To:

$host = explode(':', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);

File: /var/www/m1324/app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Model/Layer/Filter/Price.php
Line: 139

Change From:

$key.= $taxReq->__toString(array(), '_');

To:

$key.= $taxReq->__invoke(array(), '_');

ADMIN SECTION

File: /var/www/m1324/app/code/core/Mage/Admin/Model/User.php
Line: 374

Change From:

$nodePath = 'adminhtml/menu/' . join('/children/', split('/', $startupPage)) . '/action';

To:

$nodePath = 'adminhtml/menu/' . join('/children/', explode('/', $startupPage)) . '/action';

Hope this helps. Thanks.

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PHP source code encoding with ionCube PHP Encoder

Mukesh — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:35:04 +0000

The ionCube PHP Encoder makes it easy to protect your PHP 4 & 5 source code, including sources using the PHP 5.3 language, from easy observation, theft and change. Encoded files run on a wide range of operating systems such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and others.

Introduction: http://www.ioncube.com/sa_encoder.php

Pricing: http://www.ioncube.com/sa_encoder.php?page=pricing

Evaluation version download: http://www.ioncube.com/encoder_eval_download.php

Encoding PHP source code:-

- Download ionCube PHP Encoder
- Install the software
- Run the software
- Provide your source and traget directory for the PHP code to be encoded.
- If you are encoding php file, then give the PHP Encoding extension as ‘php’.
- Execute the program.
- The encoded file will be stored in the specified target directory.

Running the Encoded PHP file:-

For this, you need to have “ionCube Loader“. ionCube Loader is a PHP extension that works to decode PHP scripts previously encoded by the ionCube PHP Encoder package.

Download latest version of ionCube Loader from here: http://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php

Install the ionCube Loader PHP extension. The installation instruction is given over here: http://www.ioncube.com/loader_installation.php

ionCube Loader Installation instruction for Windows

I am using Windows OS, WAMP server and PHP version 5.2.6.

- Download zip file from http://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php from the row where OS/Platform is Windows VC9 (x86)

In this page, you will see different package for different OS. For windows only, there are four versions present (Windows VC6 (x86), Windows VC6 (Non-TS) (x86), Windows VC9 (x86), and Windows VC9 (Non-TS) (x86))

Non-TS means Non Thread Safe.

The difference between VC6 and VC9 for Windows OS is given below:-

VC6 Versions are compiled with the legacy Visual Studio 6 compiler.
VC9 Versions are compiled with the Visual Studio 2008 compiler and have improvements in performance and stability.

- Extract the zip file

- Copy loader-wizard.php to your root directory. In my case it is C:\wamp\www\

- My PHP version is 5.2.6. So, I will copy ioncube_loader_win_5.2.dll to C:\wamp\bin\php\ioncube\. If you are using PHP version 5.1 then you need to copy the ioncube_loader_win_5.1.dll file. It’s the similar case for PHP 5.3. The folder path is not compulsory to be: C:\wamp\bin\php\ioncube\. You can keep it wherever you like.

- Open php.ini file and write the following line:
zend_extension_ts = C:\wamp\bin\php\ioncube\ioncube_loader_win_5.2.dll.
Remember that in my case, I have stored ioncube_loader_win_5.2.dll file in C:\wamp\bin\php\ioncube\ path.

- Restart apache.

Now, you can browse the encoded php files.

Hope this helps. Thanks.

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PHP: Easily create PDF on the fly

Mukesh — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:15:26 +0000

Here, I will be writing about two pdf creation PHP Classes. They are FPDF and TCPDF. With these classes, you can quickly, easily and effectively generate PDF files.

FPDF is smaller in size compared to TCPDF. But, in functionalities, TCPDF wins. TCPDF has lots of features and functionalities.

If you want very advanced features in PDF creation then TCPDF is for you. And, if you want just minimal features of PDF creation and want a smaller in size class then FPDF is for you.

FPDF Library: The PDF generator

Here is what the FPDF website has to say about itself:-

FPDF is a PHP class which allows to generate PDF files with pure PHP, that is to say without using the PDFlib library. F from FPDF stands for Free: you may use it for any kind of usage and modify it to suit your needs.

FPDF has other advantages: high level functions. Here is a list of its main features:

- Choice of measure unit, page format and margins
- Page header and footer management
- Automatic page break
- Automatic line break and text justification
- Image support (JPEG, PNG and GIF)
- Colors
- Links
- TrueType, Type1 and encoding support
- Page compression

FPDF requires no extension (except zlib to activate compression and GD for GIF support). It works with PHP 4 and PHP 5

Example code to create PDF file

Image('logo_pb.png',10,8,33);
    //Arial bold 15
    $this->SetFont('Arial','B',15);
    //Move to the right
    $this->Cell(80);
    //Title
    $this->Cell(30,10,'Title',1,0,'C');
    //Line break
    $this->Ln(20);
}

//Page footer
function Footer()
{
    //Position at 1.5 cm from bottom
    $this->SetY(-15);
    //Arial italic 8
    $this->SetFont('Arial','I',8);
    //Page number
    $this->Cell(0,10,'Page '.$this->PageNo().'/{nb}',0,0,'C');
}
}

//Instanciation of inherited class
$pdf=new PDF();
$pdf->AliasNbPages();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->SetFont('Times','',12);
for($i=1;$i<=40;$i++)
    $pdf->Cell(0,10,'Printing line number '.$i,0,1);
$pdf->Output();
?>

DEMO OF THE CODE ABOVE

DOWNLOAD FPDF || MORE TUTORIALS AND EXAMPLES

TCPDF – PHP class for PDF

Here is the introduction and main features of TCPDF:-

Started in 2002, TCPDF is now one of the world’s most active Open Source projects, used daily by millions o users and included in thousands of CMS and Web applications. TCPDF is a PHP class for generating PDF documents without requiring external extensions. TCPDF Supports UTF-8, Unicode, RTL languages, XHTML, Javascript, digital signatures, barcodes and much more.

Main Features

- no external libraries are required for the basic functions;
- all standard page formats, custom page formats, custom margins and units of measure;
- UTF-8 Unicode and Right-To-Left languages;
- TrueTypeUnicode, OpenTypeUnicode, TrueType, OpenType, Type1 and CID-0 fonts;
- font subsetting;
- methods to publish some XHTML + CSS code, Javascript and Forms;
- images, graphic (geometric figures) and transformation methods;
- supports JPEG, PNG and SVG images natively, all images supported by GD and all images supported via ImagMagick;
- 1D and 2D barcodes;
- Grayscale, RGB, CMYK, Spot Colors and Transparencies;
- automatic page header and footer management;
- document encryption up to 256 bit and digital signature certifications;
- transactions to UNDO commands;
- PDF annotations, including links, text and file attachments;
- text rendering modes (fill, stroke and clipping);
- multiple columns mode;
- no-write page regions;
- bookmarks and table of content;
- text hyphenation;
- text stretching and spacing (tracking/kerning);
- automatic page break, line break and text alignments including justification;
- automatic page numbering and page groups;
- move and delete pages;
- page compression (requires php-zlib extension);
- XOBject templates;

Example code to create PDF file

SetCreator(PDF_CREATOR);
$pdf->SetAuthor('Nicola Asuni');
$pdf->SetTitle('TCPDF Example 001');
$pdf->SetSubject('TCPDF Tutorial');
$pdf->SetKeywords('TCPDF, PDF, example, test, guide');

// set default header data
$pdf->SetHeaderData(PDF_HEADER_LOGO, PDF_HEADER_LOGO_WIDTH, PDF_HEADER_TITLE.' 001', PDF_HEADER_STRING);

// set header and footer fonts
$pdf->setHeaderFont(Array(PDF_FONT_NAME_MAIN, '', PDF_FONT_SIZE_MAIN));
$pdf->setFooterFont(Array(PDF_FONT_NAME_DATA, '', PDF_FONT_SIZE_DATA));

// set default monospaced font
$pdf->SetDefaultMonospacedFont(PDF_FONT_MONOSPACED);

//set margins
$pdf->SetMargins(PDF_MARGIN_LEFT, PDF_MARGIN_TOP, PDF_MARGIN_RIGHT);
$pdf->SetHeaderMargin(PDF_MARGIN_HEADER);
$pdf->SetFooterMargin(PDF_MARGIN_FOOTER);

//set auto page breaks
$pdf->SetAutoPageBreak(TRUE, PDF_MARGIN_BOTTOM);

//set image scale factor
$pdf->setImageScale(PDF_IMAGE_SCALE_RATIO);

//set some language-dependent strings
$pdf->setLanguageArray($l);

// ---------------------------------------------------------

// set default font subsetting mode
$pdf->setFontSubsetting(true);

// Set font
// dejavusans is a UTF-8 Unicode font, if you only need to
// print standard ASCII chars, you can use core fonts like
// helvetica or times to reduce file size.
$pdf->SetFont('dejavusans', '', 14, '', true);

// Add a page
// This method has several options, check the source code documentation for more information.
$pdf->AddPage();

// Set some content to print
$html = <<Welcome to  TCPDF !
This is the first example of TCPDF library.
This text is printed using the writeHTMLCell() method but you can also use: Multicell(), writeHTML(), Write(), Cell() and Text().
Please check the source code documentation and other examples for further information.
TO IMPROVE AND EXPAND TCPDF I NEED YOUR SUPPORT, PLEASE MAKE A DONATION!
EOD;

// Print text using writeHTMLCell()
$pdf->writeHTMLCell($w=0, $h=0, $x='', $y='', $html, $border=0, $ln=1, $fill=0, $reseth=true, $align='', $autopadding=true);

// ---------------------------------------------------------

// Close and output PDF document
// This method has several options, check the source code documentation for more information.
$pdf->Output('example_001.pdf', 'I');
?>

DEMO OF THE CODE ABOVE

DOWNLOAD TCPDF || MORE TUTORIALS AND EXAMPLES

You can use any one or both of them based on your requirements.

Cheers :)

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phpThumb(): The best PHP thumbnail image generator

Mukesh — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:58:51 +0000

As far as I see, I find phpThumb() as the best of all PHP thumbnail image generator. It has lots of thumbnail generation features. You can create thumbnail in a number of ways with phpThumb().

phpThumb() uses the GD library to create thumbnails from images (JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, etc) on the fly. Basic functionality is available even if GD functions are not installed (as long as ImageMagick is installed).

Features include optional resizing, cropping, watermarking, unsharp mask sharpening, rotating, caching, borders, GIF reading with/without GD support, EXIF thumbnails can be extracted and/or used for large-source support, works with any GD version, and much more.

Supported source image formats:

JPEG (via GD or ImageMagick)
PNG (via GD or ImageMagick)
GIF (via GD, ImageMagick, or phpthumb.gif.php)
BMP (via ImageMagick or phpthumb.bmp.php)
any image format ImageMagick can read

Supported output image formats:

JPEG (via GD or ImageMagick)
PNG (via GD or ImageMagick)
GIF (via GD or ImageMagick)
BMP (via ImageMagick or phpthumb.bmp.php)
ICO (via ImageMagick or phpthumb.ico.php)

Some Image processing features:

1. Source image can be a physical file on the local server, remote file over HTTP, or can be retrieved from a database.
2. GIFs are supported on all versions of GD (even if GD does not have native GIF support) thanks to the GIF Util class by Fabien Ezber, or by ImageMagick.
3. BMP source images can be used even if ImageMagick is not available.
4. HTTP thumbnail creation can be limited to the current (or other list of) domain to prevent other sites from using your server to create their thumbnails.
5. Linking to thumbnails from another domain can be prevented or watermarked.
6. Thumbnails can be cached for less server load. Mulitple sizes of any source image can be cached seperately. Thumbnails are automatically updated when (local) source image is modified.
7. Images can be rotated, either by an arbitary angle or auto-rotated to either portrait or landscape.
8. Images can be cropped, either by a specified number of pixels or by a percentage of original image.
9. A watermark image or text can be applied over the thumbnail in one of 10 positions or tiled.
10. A border or frame can be applied.

COMPLETE LIST OF FEATURES || DEMO PAGE WITH EXAMPLES || DOWNLOAD

Cheers :)

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PHP: How to get stock quote data from Yahoo! Finance? (Complete Code and Tutorial)

Mukesh — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:51:10 +0000

In this tutorial, I will be showing you how you can fetch any company’s data from Yahoo! Finance.

INTRODUCTION

First of all, let us see the stock quote data of top tech companies on Yahoo! Finance.

View the basic Google stock chart on Yahoo! Finance: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=goog

For eBay: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EBAY
For Amazon: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AMZN
For Apple: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL
For Microsoft: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=MSFT
For Yahoo: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=YHOO

Similarly, you can find for others. You just need to change the stock symbol.
All industry list is present here: http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/ind_index.html
You can click on any industry sector from the list and see the stock symbol for industries.

DEMONSTRATION

Let us now fetch stock data from Yahoo! Finance.

You can get stock data from Yahoo from the following URL:
http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=$stock&f=$format

Here,
$stock = stock symbol (e.g. GOOG for Google, MSFT for Microsoft, APPL for Apple, etc.)
$format = format or tags to be fetched

Example,

http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=GOOG+AAPL+MSFT+YHOO&f=snl1d1t1cv

The above URL will fetch stock data of Google, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo.
It will fetch data for the following parameters:-

s = Symbol
n = Name
l1 = Last Trade (Price Only)
d1 = Last Trade Date
t1 = Last Trade Time
c = Change and Percent Change
v = Volume

FIND STOCK SYMBOLS FOR ANY COMPANY

All industry list is present here: http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/ind_index.html
You can click on any industry sector from the list and see the stock symbol for industries.

FIND COMPLETE LIST OF PARAMETERS

Complete list of parameters that can be fetched from Yahoo.

a – Ask
a2 – Average Daily Volume
a5 – Ask Size
b – Bid
b2 – Ask (Real-time)
b3 – Bid (Real-time)
b4 – Book Value
b6 – Bid Size
c – Change and Percent Change
c1 – Change
c3 – Commission
c6 – Change (Real-time)
c8 – After Hours Change (Real-time)
d – Dividend/Share
d1 – Last Trade Date
d2 – Trade Date
e – Earnings/Share
e1 – Error Indication (returned for symbol changed / invalid)
e7 – EPS Est. Current Year
e8 – EPS Est. Next Year
e9 – EPS Est. Next Quarter
f6 – Float Shares
g – Day’s Low
g1 – Holdings Gain Percent
g3 – Annualized Gain
g4 – Holdings Gain
g5 – Holdings Gain Percent (Real-time)
g6 – Holdings Gain (Real-time)
h – Day’s High
i – More Info
i5 – Order Book (Real-time)
j – 52-week Low
j1 – Market Capitalization
j3 – Market Cap (Real-time)
j4 – EBITDA
j5 – Change from 52 Week Low
j6 – Percent Change from 52 Week Low
k – 52-week High
k1 – Last Trade (Real-time) with Time
k2 – Change Percent (Real-time)
k3 – Last Trade Size
k4 – Change from 52 Week High
k5 – Percent Change from 52 Week High
l – Last Trade (with time)
l1 – Last Trade (without time)
l2 – High Limit
l3 – Low Limit
m – Day’s Range
m2 – Day’s Range (Real-time)
m3 – 50 Day Moving Average
m4 – 200 Day Moving Average
m5 – Change from 200 Day Moving Average
m6 – Percent Change from 200 Day Moving Average
m7 – Change from 50 Day Moving Average
m8 – Percent Change from 50 Day Moving Average
n – Name
n4 – Notes
o – Open
p – Previous Close
p1 – Price Paid
p2 – Change in Percent
p5 – Price/Sales
p6 – Price/Book
q – Ex-Dividend Date
r – P/E Ratio
r1 – Dividend Pay Date
r2 – P/E (Real-time)
r5 – PEG Ratio
r6 – Price/EPS Est. Current Year
r7 – Price/EPS Est. Next Year
s – Symbol
s1 – Shares Owned
s7 – Short Ratio
t1 – Last Trade Time
t6 – Trade Links
t7 – Ticker Trend
t8 – 1 Year Target Price
v – Volume
v1 – Holdings Value
v7 – Holdings Value (Real-time)
w – 52 Week Range
w1 – Day’s Value Change
w4 – Day’s Value Change (Real-time)
x – Stock Exchange
y – Dividend Yield

PHP CODE TO FETCH STOCK DATA FROM YAHOO! FINANCE

I have made two files for this purpose. The class file contains class and function to fetch the required data. And the usuage file contains code to display it. I have written enough comments in the code for better understanding.

Class file (class.yahoostock.php)

stocks[] = $stock;
    }

	/**
     * Populate parameters/format to be fetched
	 *
     * @param string $param Parameters/Format to be fetched
     * @return void
     */
	public function addFormat($format)
    {
        $this->format = $format;
    }

    /**
     * Get Stock Data
	 *
     * @return array
     */
    public function getQuotes()
    {
        $result = array();
		$format = $this->format;

        foreach ($this->stocks as $stock)
        {
			/**
			 * fetch data from Yahoo!
			 * s = stock code
			 * f = format
			 * e = filetype
			 */
            $s = file_get_contents("http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=$stock&f=$format&e=.csv");

			/**
			 * convert the comma separated data into array
			 */
            $data = explode( ',', $s);

			/**
			 * populate result array with stock code as key
			 */
            $result[$stock] = $data;
        }
        return $result;
    }
}

Usage file (yahoostock.php)

addFormat("snl1d1t1cv"); 

/**
	Add company stock code to be fetched

	msft = Microsoft
	amzn = Amazon
	yhoo = Yahoo
	goog = Google
	aapl = Apple
 */
$objYahooStock->addStock("msft");
$objYahooStock->addStock("amzn");
$objYahooStock->addStock("yhoo");
$objYahooStock->addStock("goog");
$objYahooStock->addStock("vgz"); 

/**
 * Printing out the data
 */
foreach( $objYahooStock->getQuotes() as $code => $stock)
{
	?>
	Code:  

	Name:  

	Last Trade Price:  

	Last Trade Date:  

	Last Trade Time:  

	Change and Percent Change:  

	Volume:

Hope this helps. Thanks.

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