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displaying the current date in an HTML page

<html>



<head>

<title>

displaying the current date in an HTML page

</title>

</head>

<? print(Date("l F d, Y")); ?>



<body>

</body>

</html>

change background color based on day of the week using array

<html>

<head>

<title>Background Colors change based on the day of the week</title>

</head>

<? 

$today = date("w");

$bgcolor = array(

"#FEF0C5", "#FFFFFF", "#FBFFC4", "#FFE0DD",

"#E6EDFF", "#E9FFE6", "#F0F4F1"

);

?>

<body bgcolor="<?print("$bgcolor[$today]");?>">

<br>This just changes the color of the screen based on the day of the week

</body>

</html>

add date time stamp "page last updated on..." using filemtime function

<html>

<head>

<title>Background Colors change based on the day of the week</title>

</head>

<? 

$today = date("w");

$bgcolor = array(

"#FEF0C5", "#FFFFFF", "#FBFFC4", "#FFE0DD",

"#E6EDFF", "#E9FFE6", "#F0F4F1"

);

?>

<body bgcolor="<?print("$bgcolor[$today]");?>">

<br>This just changes the color of the screen based on the day of the week

</body>

</html>

add date time stamp "page last updated on..." using filemtime function

<html>

<head>

<title>Page last updated on month/date/year hour:min PHP Script</title>

</head>

<?

$last_modified = filemtime("example7.php3");

print("Last Modified ");

print(date("m/j/y h:i", $last_modified));

?>

</body>

</html>

setting and retrieving a cookie

<?

$check = "test";

$check .= $filename;

if ($test == $check)

{

print("<HTML><BODY>You have already voted. Thank you.</BODY></HTML>");

}

else

{

$rated = "test";

$rated .= $filename;

setcookie(test, $rated, time()+86400);

print("<HTML>

       <BODY>

       <br>You haven't voted before so I recorded your vote

       </BODY>

       </HTML>");

}

?>

getting an average number using PHP

<?

$total_ratings = (3+2+3+1+5+2+3);

$total_votes = 7;

$average = $total_ratings / $total_votes;

print("The Average Rating Is: $average");

?>

generating a rand number from 0 to 9

<?

srand(time());

$random = (rand()%9);

print("Random number between 0 and 9 is: $random");

?>

php simple slot machine - multiple rand number generation

<?

function slotnumber()

{

srand(time());

for ($i=0; $i < 3; $i++)

{

$random = (rand()%3);

$slot[] = $random;

}

print("<td width="33%"><center>$slot[0]</td>");

print("<td width="33%"><center>$slot[1]</td>");

print("<td width="33%"><center>$slot[2]</td>");

if($slot[0] == $slot[1] && $slot[0] == $slot[2])

{

print("</td></tr>Winner! -- Hit refresh on your browser to play again");

exit;

}

}

?>



<div align="center"><center>



<table border="1" width="50%">

  <tr>

<?

slotnumber();

?>

</td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td width="100%" colspan="3" bgcolor="#008080">

<form method="POST" action="example13.php3">

<div align="center"><center>

<p><input type="submit" value="Spin!"></p>

      </center></div>

    </form>

    </td>

  </tr>

</table>

</center></div>

random text link advertising using predefined arrays

<?

$random_url = array("http://www.tdscripts.com/linkorg.html",

                    "http://www.tdscripts.com/keno.html",

                    "http://www.tdscripts.com/ezibill.shtml",

                    "http://www.tdscripts.com/tdforum.shtml",

                    "http://www.tdscripts.com/picofday.html",

                    "http://www.tdscripts.com/gutsorglory.html");



$url_title = array("Link Organizer",

                   "TD Keno",

                   "eziBill *Free Promotion!",

                   "TD Forum",

                   "TD Pic of Day PHP",

                   "Guts or Glory Poker PHP");

$url_desc = array("- A comprehensive link list organizer",

"- Offer your site visitors an engaging Keno game without the monetary risk",

"- Sell access to and protect your membership area using iBill and our eziBill script",

"- An unthreaded messageboard script to exchange ideas with your site visitors",

"- Run your own picture of the day script from any site anywhere with this handy script",

"- A casino-style card game written entirely in PHP");

srand(time());

$sizeof = count($random_url);

$random = (rand()%$sizeof);

print("<center><a href="$random_url[$random]">$url_title[$random]</a> $url_desc[$random]</center>");

?>

forcing the text in a string to be all upper or lowercase

<?

// force all uppercase

print(strtoupper("i bet this will show up as all letters capitalized<br>"));

// force all lowercase

print(strtolower("I BET THIS WILL SHOW UP AS ALL LETTERS IN LOWERCASE<br>"));

// force the first letter of a string to be capitalized

print(ucfirst("i bet this will show the first letter of the string capitalized<br>"));

// force the first letter of each WORD in a string to be capitalized

print(ucwords("i bet this will show the first letter of every word capitalized<br>"));

?>

searching through meta tags for a search engine

<HTML>

<BODY>

<?

$all_meta = get_meta_tags("010600.php3");

print($all_meta["description"]);

print("<br>");

print($all_meta["keywords"]);

?>

</BODY>

</HTML>