Microsoft strongly advises not to use the automation of Office documents via COM objects. It quotes the following −“Microsoft does not currently recommend or support the Automation of Microsoft Office applications from any unattended, non-interactive client application or component (including ASP, ASP.NET, DCOM, and NT Services), because Office may exhibit unstable behavior and/or deadlock when Office is run in this environment.”A .docx file can be created without COM objects since it has XML foundations (PHPDOCX could be used for this). An added advantage of this method is that a local copy of Word that was installed wouldn’t have to be created ... Read More

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URL decoding can be done using the built-in 'urldecode' function. This returns the encoded data.Syntax of urldecode functionstring urldecode($input)It takes a single parameter ($input) which is the URL that is to be decoded. Returns the decoded string provided the decoding was successful −Example Live Demo In the above lines of the code, the ‘urldecode’ function takes in the raw (encoded string) and returns the decoded value of the string.OutputThis will produce the following output −https://medium.com/

If we know that the current encoding is ASCII, the 'iconv' function can be used to convert ASCII to UTF-8. The original string can be passed as a parameter to the iconv function to encode it to UTF-8.Example Live DemoA string with special characters is assigned to ‘str’ variable. This is passed to the ‘iconv’ function, with the encoding that it currently is in, and the encoding to which it needs to be converted to.OutputThis will produce the following output −Original :ábrêcWtë Plain :�br�cWt�Another method is to detect the encoding and then converting it to an appropriate encoding −Example Live Demo$string = ... Read More

Using Ajax to download files is not considered to be a good idea. Instead, window.location = or document.location should be used.The 'window.location' has the following characteristics −JavaScript enabling is requiredIt doesn't need PHP.It helps show the content of the site, and redirects the user after a few seconds.Redirect can be dependent on any conditions such as −$success = 1 if ($success) {    window.location.href = 'http://example.com'; }A variable named ‘success’ is assigned with the value of 1. When this condition is satisfied, the window.location is used.On running, the user is redirected to the website 'http://example.com'Read More

The text inside a tag inside class="text" inside with class="main" can be obtained with the following code −Example$html = nodeValue)); }OutputThis will produce the following output −string ‘This is text 1’ (length=14) string ‘This is text 2' (length=14)

HTTP URLs can be used to behave like local files, with the help of PHP wrappers. The contents from a URL can be fetched through the file_get_contents() and it can be echoed. or read using the readfile function.Below is a sample code to do the same −$file = file_get_contents('http://example.com/'); echo $file;An alternative is demonstrated below −readfile('http://example.com/'); header('Content-type: text/xml'); //The correct MIME type has to be set before displaying the output.The asXML method also can be used. Below is a sample code −echo $xml->asXML(); or $xml->asXML('filename.xml'); //providing a name for the xml file.Read More

The below line of code can be used to display the header that the PHP code received via a browser −orExample$headers = getallheaders(); foreach($headers as $key=>$val){    echo $key . ': ' . $val . ''; }OutputThis will produce the following output −Host: www.websitename.com Content-Length: 180 Cache-Control: max-age=0 Origin: http://www.websitename.com Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1 Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.79 Safari/537.36 Accept: text/html, application/xhtml+xml, application/xml;q=0.9, image/webp, image/apng, */*;q=0.8, application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9 Referer: http://www.writephponline.com/ Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Language: en-GB, en-US;q=0.9, en;q=0.8 Cookie: _ga=GA1.2.118418268.1575911248; _gid=GA1.2.1794052867.1576852059Read More

The array_map function can be used to get the length and the max function can be used to get the length of the longest string.Below is a code sample for the same −$max_len = max(array_map('strlen', $array));Example Live Demo$array = array("a", "Ab", "abcd", "abcdfegh", "achn"); $max_len = max(array_map('strlen', $array)); echo $max_len;OutputThis will produce the following output −8

Two variables can’t be explicitly returned, they can be put in a list/array data structure and returned.Example Live Demofunction factors( $n ) {    // An empty array is declared    $fact = array();    // Loop through it    for ( $i = 1; $i < $n; $i++) {       // Check if i is the factor of       // n, push into array       if( $n % $i == 0 )       array_push( $fact, $i );    }    // Return array    return $fact; } // Declare a variable and initialize it $num = 12; // Function call $nFactors = factors($num); // Display the result echo 'Factors of ' . $num . ' are: '; foreach( $nFactors as $x ) {    echo $x . ""; }OutputThis will produce the following output −Factors of 12 are: 1 2 3 4 6