How difficult is it to open a IMAP mailbox in PHP and show folder names and email headers, well, no difficult at all.

Now Ruby isn’t a bad language by far, but coming from PHP or .NET to Ruby on Rails especially when you have to rewrite code is like trying to turn a PC into a Mac, it is possible to do with a lot of glue but it turns out messy.

What follows are my top 9 reasons why you should switch back from Ruby on Rails and move away from the hype machine.

Sometimes you don’t want to use captchas or “are you human questions” on your forms, well here’s a simply way to block the vast majority of bots posting to your website forms.

A very useful piece of PHP code that will highlight any pictures where a face has been detected.

New to PHP and want to learn what arrays are and how to use them? Then this is the article for you!

It can be very useful to determine the users set language when visiting your website. The determined result can be used for many different applications, from targeted adverts and country specific affiliate links to country specific wording or images.

Sometimes you may need to display an image from a different website, on your website but in thumbnail form, especially if the image is large or is a static image from a webcam.

Need a function that can tell you if a string contains a bad word, sure here you go…

Sometimes quite handy, this code snippet allows you to display an image from a Google image search on-the-fly. This means the image will always be up-to-date and often what you were expecting

Often required for testing this simple function will generate a random hexadecimal colour every time.