Silicon Technix

SyntaxHighlighter:

SyntaxHighlighter is a fully functional self-contained code syntax highlighter developed in JavaScript.

Validate Email

We can perform an email validation through this function.

	function isValidEmail($email){
		return eregi('^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$', $email);
	}

After fainted for a few seconds when i saw unreal4u finding, i decided to throw up preg_match solution instead.

	function isValidEmail($email){
		return preg_match('/^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$/i', $email);
	}

PHP 5.2 and above.

function fnValidateEmail($email)
{
  return filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);
}

Sanitize Email

We can further sanitize our email to ensure that everything is alright.

function fnSanitizeEmaill($string) {
     return  preg_replace( '((?:\n|\r|\t|%0A|%0D|%08|%09)+)i' , '', $string );
}

PHP 5.2 and above.

function fnSanitizeEmaill($url)
{
  return filter_var($url, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
}

Validate Email Exist

This is not possible but certain validation can be use to validate email existence.

function check_email($email)
{
	$email_error = false;
	$Email = htmlspecialchars(stripslashes(strip_tags(trim($email)))); //parse unnecessary characters to prevent exploits
	if ($Email == '') { email_error = true; }
	elseif (!eregi('^([a-zA-Z0-9._-])+@([a-zA-Z0-9._-])+\.([a-zA-Z0-9._-])([a-zA-Z0-9._-])+', $Email)) { email_error = true; }
	else {
	list($Email, $domain) = split('@', $Email, 2);
		if (! checkdnsrr($domain, 'MX')) { email_error = true; }
		else {
		$array = array($Email, $domain);
		$Email = implode('@', $array);
		}
	}

	if (email_error) { return false; } else{return true;}
}

Validate Number Only

We can use PHP built-in function to validate whether a given value is a number.

function fnValidateNumber($value)
{
	#is_ double($value);
	#is_ float($value);
	#is_ int($value);
	#is_ integer($value);
	return is_numeric($value);
}

PHP 5.2 and above.

function fnValidateNumber($value)
{
	#return filter_var($value, FILTER_VALIDATE_FLOAT); // float
	return filter_var($value, FILTER_VALIDATE_INT); # int
}

Sanitize Number

We can force all value to be only numeric by sanitize them.

function fnSanitizeNumber($str)
{
	#letters and space only
	return preg_match('/[^0-9]/', '', $str);
}

PHP 5.2 and above.

function fnSanitizeNumber($value)
{
	#return filter_var($value, FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_FLOAT); // float
	return filter_var($value, FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT); # int
}

Validate String Only

Sometimes to validate name we can use this function to restrict only letters and spaces.

function fnValidateStringr($str)
{
	#letters and space only
	return preg_match('/^[A-Za-z\s ]+$/', $str);
}

Sanitize String

We can sanitize it instead of validate user input.

function fnSanitizeStringr($str)
{
	#letters and space only
	return preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z\s ]/', '', $str);
}

PHP 5.2 and above. built-in function by PHP provides a much more powerful sanitize capability.

function fnSanitizeStringr($str)
{
	return filter_var($str, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRIPPED); # only 'String' is allowed eg. '<br>HELLO</br>' => 'HELLO'
}

Validate Alphanumeric Characters

This validates alphanumeric characters.

function fnValidateAlphanumeric($string)
{
	return ctype_alnum ($string);
}

Sanitize Alphanumeric Characters

This sanitize alphanumeric characters. eg. “HELLO! Do we have 90 idiots running around here?” => “HELLO Do we have 90 idiots running around here”

function fnSanitizeAlphanumeric($string)
{
	return preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/', '', $string);
}

Validate URL Exist

This function will check whether a given URL exist and not only validate it.

	function url_exist($url)
	{
		$url = @parse_url($url);

		if (!$url)
		{
			return false;
		}

		$url = array_map('trim', $url);
		$url['port'] = (!isset($url['port'])) ? 80 : (int)$url['port'];
		$path = (isset($url['path'])) ? $url['path'] : '';

		if ($path == '')
		{
			$path = '/';
		}

		$path .= (isset($url['query'])) ? '?$url[query]' : '';

		if (isset($url['host']) AND $url['host'] != @gethostbyname($url['host']))
		{
			if (PHP_VERSION >= 5)
			{
				$headers = @get_headers('$url[scheme]://$url[host]:$url[port]$path');
			}
			else
			{
				$fp = fsockopen($url['host'], $url['port'], $errno, $errstr, 30);

				if (!$fp)
				{
					return false;
				}
				fputs($fp, 'HEAD $path HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: $url[host]\r\n\r\n');
				$headers = fread($fp, 4096);
				fclose($fp);
			}
			$headers = (is_array($headers)) ? implode('\n', $headers) : $headers;
			return (bool)preg_match('#^HTTP/.*\s+[(200|301|302)]+\s#i', $headers);
		}
		return false;
	}

Validate URL Format

This function will validate a given url to ensure the format is correct.

function fnValidateUrl($url){
return preg_match('/^(http(s?):\/\/|ftp:\/\/{1})((\w+\.){1,})\w{2,}$/i', $url);
}

PHP 5.2 and above.

function fnValidateUrl($url)
{
  return filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL);
}

Sanitize URL

PHP 5.2 and above.

function fnSanitizeUrl($url)
{
  return filter_var($url, FILTER_SANITIZE_URL);
}

Validate Image Exist

This function will check whether a given image link exist and not only validate it.

	function image_exist($url) {
	if(@file_get_contents($url,0,NULL,0,1)){return 1;}else{ return 0;}
	}

Validate IP Address

This function will validate an IP address.

function fnValidateIP($IP){
	return preg_match('/^(([1-9]?[0-9]|1[0-9]{2}|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5]).){3}([1-9]?[0-9]|1[0-9]{2}|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])$/',$IP)
}

PHP 5 and above. This can also specific validation for IPV4 or IPV6.

function fnValidateIP($ip)
{
  return filter_var($ip, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP);
}

Validate Proxy

This function will let us detect proxy visitors even those that are behind anonymous proxy.

function fnValidateProxy(){
	if ($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']
	   || $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED']
	   || $_SERVER['HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR']
	   || $_SERVER['HTTP_VIA']
	   || in_array($_SERVER['REMOTE_PORT'], array(8080,80,6588,8000,3128,553,554))
	   || @fsockopen($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], 80, $errno, $errstr, 30))
	{
		exit('Proxy detected');
	}
}

Validate Username

Before we validate whether a given username is matches the one in our database, we can perform a validation check first to prevent any unnecessary SQL call.

function fnValidateUsername($username){
	#alphabet, digit, @, _ and . are allow. Minimum 6 character. Maximum 50 characters (email address may be more)
	return preg_match('/^[a-zA-Z\d_@.]{6,50}$/i', $username);
}

Validate Strong Password

Another good thing is to validate whether a particular password given by the user is strong enough. You can do that using this function which required the password to have a minimum of 8 characters, at least 1 uppercase, 1 lowercase and 1 number.

function fnValidatePassword($password){
	#must contain 8 characters, 1 uppercase, 1 lowercase and 1 number
	return preg_match('/^(?=^.{8,}$)((?=.*[A-Za-z0-9])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z]))^.*$/', $password);
}

Validate US Phone Number

This function will validate US phone number for US users.

function fnValidateUSPhone($phoneNo){
	return preg_match('/\(?\d{3}\)?[-\s.]?\d{3}[-\s.]\d{4}/x', $phoneNo);
}

Validate US Postal Code

This function validate US postal code.

function fnValidateUSPostal($postalcode){
	#eg. 92345-3214
	return preg_match('/^([0-9]{5})(-[0-9]{4})?$/i',$postalcode);
}

Validate US Social Security Numbers

This function validate US Social Security Numbers.

function fnValidateUSSocialSecurityCode($ssb){
	#eg. 531-63-5334
	return preg_match('/^[\d]{3}-[\d]{2}-[\d]{4}$/',$ssn);
}

Validate Credit Card

This function validate credit card format.

function fnValidateCreditCard($cc){
	#eg. 718486746312031
	return preg_match('/^(?:4[0-9]{12}(?:[0-9]{3})?|5[1-5][0-9]{14}|6011[0-9]{12}|3(?:0[0-5]|[68][0-9])[0-9]{11}|3[47][0-9]{13})$/', $cc);
}

Validate Date

This is a date format MM-DD-YYYY or MM-DD-YY validation which validate from year 0000-9999.

function fnValidateDate($date){
	#05/12/2109
	#05-12-0009
	#05.12.9909
	#05.12.99
	return preg_match('/^((0?[1-9]|1[012])[- /.](0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[- /.][0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]{2})*$/', $date);
}

This is a date format YYYY-DD-MM or YY-MM-DD validation which validate from year 0000-9999.

function fnValidateDate($date){
	#2009/12/11
	#2009-12-11
	#2009.12.11
	#09.12.11
	return preg_match('#^([0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]{2}[- /.](0?[1-9]|1[012])[- /.](0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01]))*$#'', $date);
}

Validate Hexadecimal Colors

This is a good validation for people who allows their user to change color in their system.

function fnValidateColor($color){
	#CCC
	#CCCCC
	#FFFFF
	return preg_match('/^#(?:(?:[a-f0-9]{3}){1,2})$/i', $color);
}

Make Query Safe

This function help sanitize our data to be SQL injection safe.

function _clean($str){
return is_array($str) ? array_map('_clean', $str) : str_replace('\\', '\\\\', htmlspecialchars((get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? stripslashes($str) : $str), ENT_QUOTES));
}

//usage call it somewhere in beginning of your script
_clean($_POST);
_clean($_GET);
_clean($_REQUEST);// and so on..

Make Data Safe

This function help to keep us protected against XSS, JS and SQL injection by removing tags.

function _clean($str){
return is_array($str) ? array_map('_clean', $str) : str_replace('\\', '\\\\', strip_tags(trim(htmlspecialchars((get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? stripslashes($str) : $str), ENT_QUOTES))));
}

//usage call it somewhere in beginning of your script
_clean($_POST);
_clean($_GET);
_clean($_REQUEST);// and so on..

Packet Life:

Open Source Flash Media Server
0_9_1 – Red5:

KLOTH.NET – about radio and internet, DNS lookup, whois, antispam:

Online Tools and Services

• Find your IP address, and what are your browser settings.
• nslookup : DNS lookup to query a domain name server to look up and find IP address information of computers in the internet. As the use of nslookup is deprecated, using dig is recommended instead (see below).
• dig DNS lookup : query a domain name server to look up and find IP address information of computers in the internet.
• whois lookup : query a WHOIS server to look up and find internet domain registration data.
• iplocate : translate/convert an IP V4 address between dotted quad, decimal, hex and binary, do a PTR reverse lookup in the DNS, and search for location information.
• ping : to ping a distant internet host to see if it is active or reachable from this host.
• traceroute : trace the route to a distant internet host.
• Use serverinfo to query a web server to see from the received HTTP header what server software is running.
• Use Multi DNSBL-check to look up an internet IP v4 address to see if it is blacklisted on public blackhole lists as known spam source.
• Selcall, translate selcalls of the Maritime Mobile Service (MMS).
• Cardpunch, punch a card.
• TTYpunch, punch a perforated ITA2/Baudot teletype tape.
• Get a Fortune Cookie.
• Get Date and Time live from an NTP-server.
• Datum, date calculations and translations.