PHP Scripts & Snippets

Block a visitor's IP address from viewing a webpage or website with the PHP snippet below.

<?php
if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']=="90.6.400.191"){
echo "You do not have permission to view this page";
exit();
}
?>

...

 

If you're grappling with an older PHP Content Management System (CMS) or eCommerce Platform that lacks modern features and flexibility, specifically the straightforward application of a noindex meta tag across...

 

Create a PHP template class for handling header and footer templates that will make your code more organised and maintainable.

This approach is more flexible, and it allows you to add more methods and properties to...

 

I have recently been studying CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) to help with removing barriers for competitor research activities such as fetching data, etc. Below is a very simple CORS proxy script. The PHP...

 

Below is a PHP script that scrapes all the URLs in a single standard XML sitemap file and then stores all the sitemap data in a MySQL database table.

Assuming that you have already created the database. Run the...

 

Here is a PHP snippet that fetches the contents of a XML sitemap on a remote website. Then using a foreach we loop through the list of URLs to fetch the Page Title (aka meta title) and the meta description for each...

 

How to create a dynamic XML sitemap using PHP and MySQL. Use the PHP snippet below to create a search-engine-friendly XML sitemap for improving your SEO efforts.

<?php header('Content-type...

 

In this handy tutorial, I will show you how to automate schema JSON-LD breadcrumb schema. This will save you time on having to manually build schema breadcrumbs for each page.

The schema breadcrumbs are what helps...

 

The PHP snippet below scrapes the current URL to extract the first paragraph on the page. They can be useful for creating excerpts and creating dynamic meta descriptions.

<?php
// load the URL
$url =...

 

$_SERVER is a PHP superglobal variable that holds information about headers, paths, and script locations.

The example below shows how to use some of the elements in $_SERVER:

<?php
echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']...

 

PHP remove whitespace - Use this handy PHP function to remove all whitespace in HTML pages, effectively minifying the HTML page. This will shave off a few kb's on large HTML pages rendered using PHP.

The snippet...

 

Use this PHP variable snippet to deploy a self-referencing canonical tag to your PHP (semi-dynamic & dynamic) powered website.

Add the following to your head section

<?php...

 

A simple quick and easy solution to deploy a noindex tag on specific matching URLs or parameters using a PHP If conditional. This will be useful if you have limited to no access to amend the robots.txt or you're...

 

Save time on manually populating canonical tags and open-graph (OG) using a simple PHP snippet. This method will fetch the current URL loaded in the browser.

Replace your canonical and OG tag with the...