Category: General

EMAIL DO’s AND DONT’s

Posted on 2 February, 2018 in General, Utilities

Donts of Email Etiquette

Leaving the subject blank – always include a relevant subject. This even applies to mails that you reply to or forward to
Typing in capital letters – this is considered to be shouting
Sending emails to the entire organization that is relevant only to a few staff
Storing out of date mail and never deleting them or the attachments
Use of quirky and difficult to read fonts in an email
Replying to all, instead of just to the sender
Marking everything you send as high importance
Sending mail with typing or spelling errors

Dos of Email Etiquette

Be concise and to the point
Answer all questions
Use proper spelling, grammar & punctuation
Use templates for frequently used responses
Answer swiftly- usually within 24 hours
Do not attach unnecessary files
Use proper structure & layout
Read the email before you send it
Take care with abbreviations and emoticons
Use active instead of passive
Avoid long sentences
Use cc: field sparingly
Keep the paragraphs short
Use bullet points if manuy points need to be explained
Make sure your e-mail includes a courteous greeting and closing. Helps to make your e-mail not seem demanding or terse.
Are you using proper sentence structure? First word capitalized with appropriate punctuation? Multiple instances of !!! or ??? are perceived as rude or condescending.
When sending large attachments, always “zip” or compress them before sending.
Only use Cc: when it is important for those you Cc: to know about the contents of the email. Overuse can cause your emails to be ignored.
Include addresses in the To: field for those who you would like a response from.
Include addresses in the Cc: field for those who you are just FYI’ing.
Never expose your friend’s or contact’s email address to strangers by listing them all in the To: field. Use BCC:!
Eliminate big words and overly formal language

Substitute words

Talk about>> discuss
Ask for>> enquire
Help>> assist
Think about>> consider
Get>> receive
Buy>> purchase
Get together>> meet
Let someone know>> inform someone
Get in touch with someone>> contact someone

Useful Language

Thanks for your email
Just a brief note to say/let you know
There are a couple of things, I’m not sure about
Do call me if you’d like to discuss this further
This has been due to/this is because
It was a pleasure dealing with you
Nice to hear from you
I am attaching a copy of…
Your request was forwarded to me
I am afraid I could not open the document
I look forward to your reply
I am also sending a hard copy

Requests

Could you
Please could you
I would be grateful if you could
Can you
Do you think you could.

Language To Be Avoided

Please revert back/ reply back>> Use: revert/ reply
Awaiting for your reply>> Use: Awaiting your reply/ waiting for your reply
Please confirm me/ confirm us>> just use please confirm
I suggest you>> I suggest that you…. Eg: I suggest that you upgrade to the next package

Get the client/user/visitor IP address using PHP

Posted on 4 July, 2017 in General, PHP, Utilities

The simplest way to get the visitor’s/client’s IP address is using the $_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’] or $_SERVER[‘REMOTE_HOST’] variables.

However, sometimes this does not return the correct IP address of the visitor, so we can use some other server variables to get the IP address.

// Function to get the client IP address
function get_client_ip() {
    $ipaddress = '';
    if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']))
        $ipaddress = $_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];
    else if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']))
        $ipaddress = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];
    else if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED']))
        $ipaddress = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED'];
    else if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR']))
        $ipaddress = $_SERVER['HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR'];
    else if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_FORWARDED']))
        $ipaddress = $_SERVER['HTTP_FORWARDED'];
    else if(isset($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']))
        $ipaddress = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
    else
        $ipaddress = 'UNKNOWN';
    return $ipaddress;
}

// Function to get the client IP address

function get_client_ip() {

$ipaddress = '';

if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']))

$ipaddress = $_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];

else if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']))

$ipaddress = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];

else if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED']))

$ipaddress = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED'];

else if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR']))

$ipaddress = $_SERVER['HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR'];

else if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_FORWARDED']))

$ipaddress = $_SERVER['HTTP_FORWARDED'];

else if(isset($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']))

$ipaddress = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

else

$ipaddress = 'UNKNOWN';

return $ipaddress;

}

Tags: Global array in PHP, IP address, PHP, Web Development

How to Copy directory/files from windows command line/prompt

Posted on 7 April, 2017 in General, Utilities

COPY – It will allow you to quickly copy files from one location to another location.

Syntex > copy source_file_name destination_file_name

XCOPY – The xcopy command allows you to copy files and directories from one location to another location. This makes it much more suitable for copying folders. xcopy also has many modifiers which gives advanced users more control over the copying process.

Syntex > xcopy /E /I source_dir_name destination_die_name

Reference of /E and /I
/E – This option makes sure that empty subfolders are copied to the destination.
/I – Avoids prompting if the destination is a folder or file.

Tags: command prompt, data copy, data Export, Logic, windows command line

How can I offer a gzipped csv file for download using PHP?

Posted on 13 October, 2016 in General, PHP, Utilities

Question:

I have a PHP script that creates csv file from the db. I would like to have the script to create the csv data and immediately make a .gzip file available for download. Can you please give me some ideas?

Answer:

You can easily apply gzip compression with the gzencode function.

<?
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=your_file_name.xml.gz");
header("Content-type: application/x-gzip");

echo gzencode($csvToCompress);
?>

header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=your_file_name.xml.gz");

header("Content-type: application/x-gzip");

echo gzencode($csvToCompress);

Tags: data Export, Download zip, Logic, Web Development

Learn, Share and Grow

Posted on 25 February, 2016 in General

Learn, Share and Grow

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

– Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

Chinese philosopher (604 BC – 531 BC)

As a web developer i thought to create a knowledge sharing platform via ILovePHP.net. In web development, there are endless technologies are arriving every day, and same time we found huge opportunities to test our skills and potential. On same path we all are finding some way to share our experience of this journey. This is all about ILovePHP.net.

My purpose and motto to create this blog is to create knowledge sharing point for all whom need it. It’s an open platform for everyone to share their experience knowledge, Ideas, technology updates for everyone. To share articles on ILovePHP.net, just do send of your article on my mail id(sagarsdeshmukh91@gmail.com). After review i will publish it with your name. Important thing is the article content should be neat and clean, should not copy right prone and not steal from other blogs.

Any suggestions, improvement and feedbacks are appreciated.

Thanks a lot and Happy Coding 🙂