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So I'm working on a project where I want to show a formatted join date on a user profile page.  The join date, of course, is stored in a MySQL database using the datetime column type.  I know you can use the MySQL built in function DATE_FORMAT, but I wanted to be able to do this right in my PHP rather than in a query.

So here's an easy, one-line bit of code to give you a date in any format you choose using your datetime value from your database result:

Is this helpful for you?  Am I trying to roll a square wheel here and you know a better way?  Comment and let me know!

Tags: php, mysql, datetime, pretty dates

This small PHP function will give you an easy way to encode any email address using Character Entities. Just supply the function call with an email address and get the encoded version returned. Most any browser will properly read and translate your email without a problem and without any further action on your part.

Just make a nice call to the function whenever you want to show your email. Such as...

Here's the function code:

So I recently ran into an issue while trying to resize a BMP file with PHP. Fortunately, I came across this user created function in the imagecreate() section of the PHP website that made it easy as pie.

All you need to do is take the function there and do something like...

Of course that's a pretty bland and simple example, but you should get the point. If not, post a comment and I'd be glad to update it.