PHP - Usefull functions

Capitalize first letter of a text line

ucfirst(strtolower($row['name']));

my usually use loop

$loop = 10;
$end_id = $start_id + $loop ;
echo "<a href='/admin/developer/inventory/auto_update_shop_column/$end_id'>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> NEXT</a><br>";

for ($i=1; $i <= $loop ; $i++) { 
	$this->update_shop_column ($start_id);
	$start_id++;
}

remove invalid unicode charaters

mb_convert_encoding($string, 'UTF-8', 'UTF-8');

Remove portion of a string after a certain character

$variable = substr($variable, 0, strpos($variable, "By"));

Scraping Keyword Suggestions from Google

function getKeywordSuggestionsFromGoogle($keyword) {
    $keywords = array();
    $data = file_get_contents('http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?output=firefox&client=firefox&hl=en-US&q='.urlencode($keyword));
    if (($data = json_decode($data, true)) !== null) {
        $keywords = $data[1];
    }

    return $keywords;
}

var_dump(getKeywordSuggestionsFromGoogle('money'));

show all errors

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~ E_WARNING);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);

url_get_contents

function url_get_contents ($Url) {
    if (!function_exists('curl_init')){ 
        die('CURL is not installed!');
    }
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $Url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    $output = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $output;
}