Defining session timeout thresholds for PHP scripts is a security “must”. I recommend that you consider the purpose of your script before applying a session timeout function. For instance,...

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If you don’t backup your databases regularly, shame on you. You should! The code below will allow you to generate a backup as often as you’d like. It only makes sense to run this via a CRON...

There are many practical and frequently used methods requiring a random record to be called. For instance, when you see “featured profiles” or random customer comments on a website, they are...

More and more internet traffic is generated by the iPhone and iPod touch. The PHP snippet below shows you how to automatically redirect your users to a page which is optimized for the iPhone Safari browser. if(strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],'iPhone')...

XSS attacks plague beginner programmers and are a significant vulnerability for commercial web hosts & website operators.  XSS means “cross-site scripting“.  These exploits work on the...

This tutorial demonstrates how to execute an external PHP function by clicking a simple link within HTML.  The method uses AJAX so that the page doesn’t refresh and doesn’t require a form...