10 life-saving PHP snippets

In order to be efficient, a web developer should have a toolbox with code snippets he can use and reuse when needed. In this article, I’m going to show you 10 extremely useful PHP code snippets to add to your web developer toolbox.

Highlight specific words in a phrase

Get your average Feedburner subscribers

Automatic password creation

Compress multiple CSS files

Get short urls for Twitter

Calculate age using date of birth

Calculate execution time

Maintenance mode with PHP

Prevent js and css files from being cached

Add (th, st, nd, rd, th) to the end of a number