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When building e-commerce solutions for UK websites, sooner or later you’ll need to tackle the issue of VAT. This simple function gives you a solution to adding VAT onto individual item costs.

Ever needed to know how many words were in a string? This simple PHP function provides you with the answer!

Does your website have a funky background image? Great! Now, how does the text appear to visitors who haven’t loaded that image? This post examines a back-up colour for your backgrounds.

Need to quickly convert Hexidecimal colour values to RGB, or indeed, vice versa? The function in this post does all the work for you!

Ever wished you could rotate your text 90 degrees to make your tables more user-friendly? This little PHP script will do just that for you!

This post concentrates on looking up values from a MySQL database table, and using them to populate a drop-down list, and pre-selecting them if an id number has been passed to the page when it was opened.

A wee function for handling user-entered website addresses, and making them consistent for database storage.

Need to know how to send e-mails with PHP? This post covers the basics, and will have you communicating with your visitors in no time!

If you ever require the facility to check that a user has a file on their server, such as their configuration file, or some copyright text, this little PHP function makes the job of checking it exists a snap!

Following a quick bit of coding this morning, for a feature that should only appear on the MatchMkr website between 1st and 14th February, here’s a run-down on the code that checks the current date is a match.