URL shortner using Bitly - PHP

For creating a shorten url you need to create an account in the following link:

http://dev.bitly.com/my_apps.html

Now go to 

https://bitly.com/a/oauth_apps 

Here you need to create a accesstoken if you are creating for the first time it prompts for the password.

Then you get a alpha numeric value as accesstoken section.


Now use the following Code:

    $url = "https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v3/shorten";
    $strPost = "longUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com%2F&   access_token=YOUR ACCESSTOKEN";
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    // curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxy);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET,1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array("Content-Type: application/json"));
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, FALSE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $strPost); // add POST fields
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    var_dump($result);
    curl_close($ch);

The output of this file will return a json string

{
    "status_code" : 200,
    "status_txt" : "OK",
    "data" : {
        "long_url" : "http:\/\/google.com\/",
        "url" : "http:\/\/bit.ly\/14UO8lv",
        "hash" : "14UO8lv",
        "global_hash" : "900913",
        "new_hash" : 1
    }
}


NOTE
The bitly code is to be used for personal accounts cannot be used for Enterprise use if you want to use it for Enterprise you need to request them for the details but this code even works for that Code too.

A simple Shopping Cart code in PHP

Here is a simple way to code to code the shopping cart i have seen in many websites for the code but i hope i have done using basic simple concepts of PHP to code the Shopping cart

Here is the link to download the source code - download

Instructions for using that code

1. Extract the ca.rar
2. place ca folder in www folder
3. Execute the backup file or use scripts present in dbscripts folder to create new tables
4. Now run localhost/ca to execute the code 

 

Get Url From Browser in Php

Getting the URL  from the parent window when you use a popup. This small Example code might help you to get the url from the parent window this can be used normal windows also

 if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']))
{
   
    $strPrevScheme = parse_url($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], PHP_URL_SCHEME);
 

    $strPrevHost = parse_url($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], PHP_URL_HOST);
 

    $strPrevPath = parse_url($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], PHP_URL_PATH);
 

    $strPrevURL = urlencode($strPrevScheme.'://'.$strPrevHost.$strPrevPath);
   
   
}

the parse_url(url) gives the following array 

Array
(
    [scheme] => http
    [host] => hostname
    [user] => username
    [pass] => password
    [path] => /path
    [query] => arg=value
    [fragment] => anchor
)

reference - http://in2.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php 

Finding the Count of all Charecters entered

<?php
/******************************************************************************
 * Filename: totalnumberofalphabets.php
 * Description: The file is used to count the number of occurences of each charecter
 * Author: G Jayendra Kartheek
 * Date Created: 26 Mar 2012
 * Copyright © 2012 All rights reserved
 ******************************************************************************/

//after user submits the values
if (isset($_POST['butSubmit']) && '' != $_POST['butSubmit']) {

    //taking the charecter into the array
    $strValue = str_split($_POST['txtInput']);
    //copying the string array
    $strDuplicate = $strValue;
   
    $iIntI = 0;
    //based on the string length travesing the array
    while ($iIntI < strlen($_POST['txtInput'])) {
        //initializing the count and j for every iteration
        $iCount = 0;
        $iIntIIntJ = 0;
        //comparing each and every element  and finding the count of each element
        while ($iIntIIntJ < strlen($_POST['txtInput'])) {
            if ($strDuplicate[$iIntI] == $strValue[$iIntIIntJ]) {

                $iCount++;
            }
            $iIntIIntJ++;
        }
        //printing the count
        echo '<br>Number of times "' . $strDuplicate[$iIntI] . '" repeated is : ' . $iCount;
        $iIntI++;
    }
}
?>
<form name="" method ="POST">
    <input type='text' name = 'txtInput'/><input type = 'submit' name= 'butSubmit' value ="OK"/>
</FORM>

Closing the PopUp and redirecting Parent Window

I have tried for few hours to solve this problem Here is the simple example which helps you to solve the Problem

Problem:
 Create a PopUp window on submission of a value in PopUp the PopUp Closes and the Parent Windows redirects to Some other Page 

Solution:
Here is the simple way to solve it

Create 2 php pages

1. popup.php
Copy this Code

<html>
    <head>    
    </head>
    <body>
        <a href="#" onclick="window.open('popupcode.php','Login','height=500,width=420,scrollbars=yes');return false;">PopUp</a>
    </body>
    </html>

Difference between Echo and Print in Php

We have Echo we have print in php which we use to display the output to the user

Both Echo and Print does the same work - Displaying the output on the screen

But there are couple of differences between them

Echo

1. Output one or more strings
2. Allows More parameters works only with the short open tags
3. It is not a function
   
4. It takes less memory
   

Print

1. Output only one string
2. It allows only one parameter
   
3. Its not a real function but its a language construct
4. It take a little more memory than echo
   

Curl Using PHP in a Gist

cURL: It is  a client that deals with URL so its named as cURL so as to say that it deals with URL only 

It is used to make client communicate with the server using command line 
arguments using cURL syntax

Its main use is to provide security to the URL's sent through the browser to the server
 
 The main commands in cURL  which i found is important are


1. curl_init() - with which the main curl operation starts

2.curl_setop($charecter,options,value) - 


                    $charecter = curl handle returned by curl_initi()

           options = curl provides various options with general syntax 

curlOPT_XXX 

                         other options are found in - PHP website

          value = value of the url

3. curl_exec() - which is used to execute a $charecter in which the information has be moved 

4.curl_close() - this is used to close the curl connection