I recently upgraded my local testing server to php5. Right off the bat I experienced two differences from my previous php4 setup.

First, for the ‘I need a solution quick’ people.

• Don’t use $PHP_SELF in your forms & links. Use $_SERVER[’PHP_SELF’]
• To get error reporting back on. Search your php.ini for the ‘Error handling and logging’ section and uncomment (by removing the semi-colon) the type of error reporting you want. (eg. error_reporting = E_ALL)

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I’ve written a php script that calculates:

• How long it has been since you quit smoking (in days, hours, minutes and seconds).
• How many cigarettes you have not smoked during that time.
• How much money you’ve saved since quitting.

I quit smoking on July 15, 2004. The numbers calculated by the Quit Smoking Calculator are amazing.

If your a smoker, former smoker or know someone who is, click over and try it out.

I’ve just added a md5 hash generator to the PHP Toolbox.

I find the need to generate and insert an md5 string into the database lots of times during production of web applications. The md5 generator is a quick way to encrypt passwords for users already created.

If your new to md5 encryption with php, you can read more about it at php.net.

Finally getting some of the intended content for my PHP Toolbox. I’ve shared my PHP functions for displaying: Random Quotes, Random Text and Random Images.

Hope they help someone.