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Cut a string when it finds a certain character with PHP
ok so lets say we have a string like this: Hi there im a string. I am also part of the same string. And we want to shorten the above string into just: Hi there im a string. This is what i wo..
validate a url using php with FILTER_VALIDATE_URL
checks if a url is valid
function to create a uid from html
this function converts a html string into a uid or unique id type string, its not actually unique, but its a string that can be used to make the title of something that contains html into a usable str..
calculate a percentage (dec) difference based on two numbers
this function will show you the percentage difference between two numbers
asp classic get a url and display it
gets a url and displays it using XMLHTTP
Using nth-child css to hide list items or repeated elements
Lets say that i have a list like this: <div class='my-awesome-list'><div class='a-list-item'>yay im a list item</div><div class='a-list-item'>yay im a list item</div><..
PHP MySQL vs SQLite Count Items Function
I have been writing a few functions using sqlite and mysql. There are a couple of slight differences which can be seen in this count items_function.
How Many Days Since a Date and other Calculations
Here i calculate the number of days since a certain date in php and use the values for checking how much something costs per day. Start Date Lets add the date that the item was purchaced. In d..
image Checkbox Replacement for Forms
Some sites like to be a bit tricky and have some complicated form checkbox replacement which is not all that hard, just can be a bit annoying as you have to extract the images for this to work. Demo ..
Using Flexbox rather than Floats
So i was still using float left for a bunch of elements i was working on the other day, sometimes it's hard to drop old techniques. What are the actual benefits of using flexbox rather than float lef..
Date Conversion PHP
Convert 1/1/2011 into 2011-01-01 00:00:00
white space pre-wrap formatting
when you want to preserve line breaks in plain text without having to add br tags or p tags.
Generate a random title from an array
give this an array of strings and it will pick a random one to return from the array.
echo todays date and time in a nice format
This will produce some thing like this: 19 December 2018 @ 10:12
Core - File Structure
Core works on the following directory structure: //class//class/extends//css//db//images//import//inc//lib//pages//templates/ all of the core structure is fairly self explanitory core.class.php can..
Core Class - Basic Core Structure
A Core class that can be used as a base for all content types and uses the extend classes to define the database variables. So basically you can set up core class and then create sub extend classes to..
page load timer class
usage: $page_timer = new page_timer; // at the start of your code echo $page_timer->end(); // at the end of your code.
human_filesize php
function via here http://php.net/manual/en/function.filesize.php#106569
xcopy backup full directory windows bat
xcopy /y/s/e/d/c/k/r d:\photos\*.* h:\photos
for loop set variables $p1,$p2.. etc as blank - variable variables
this will loop through and assign the variable $p1 = ""; to each in the loop so it appends the loop number to the variable name so you end up with $p1 = "value"; $p2 = "value2"; etc, rather than h..
sqlite check table name exists
check that the table name exists in a sqlite database, this function it taken from a class.
get current class name with get_class
This will return the current class name, can be used in side a function of the current class object or give it another object name to return. class myclass {function myfunction() {echo get_class($thi..
meta keywords tag
used in the page header keywords are seperated by comma's. e.g: key word,keyword,etc
meta description tag
used in the page header
assign array to variables in a loop
this will assign all items in the array to variables $p1,$p2.. etc. $p = "/1/2/3/4/5/"; $page_array = explode("/",$p); foreach ($page_array as $key => $value) { if($value > "") { ${"p".$pc..
favicon code meta tag
if you want to link a png as a favicon
generate a random color rgb code with php
this code will generate a random color every time its loaded using the rand function in php and generate something like this. .random-color { color:rgb(111,222,111); } PHP Code <?php ..
css :active pseudo-class usage
The :active selector is a CSS pseudo-class. It represents an element that is being activated by the user when they are interacting with a button or link.
Regular expression breakdown regex preg_replace php
/ - opening delimiter (necessary for regular expressions, can be any character that doesn't appear in the regular expression \( - Match an opening parenthesis [^)]+ - Match 1 or more character that..
replace anything in brackets in a string using preg_replace regex php
Lets say we have a string like this hi there im a string (not really a string). and we want to remove this bit (not really a string) We can do this using the following regex (preg_replace) $strin..
for loop with a 5 increment
$css_out = "";$max_width = "50";for($i=0; $i<=$max_width; $i = $i + 5) {$css_out .= ".m".$i."{margin:".$i."px;}";}return $css_out;
Get Current Page URL PHP
There is a few methods of getting this but here is a simple one. Replacing the http or https manually. $current_url = "http://$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]"; Here is a more complex ..
Get the document root path in php $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']
I ususally use this one if i am linking to files in the server document root folder rather than specifying ../directory/include.file.php i will use something like this: $document_root = $_..
remove all of an element in a string <h1>
good if you want to remove all of the instances of an element in a string like if you have a <h1> tag in your string and want to remove it you can use the following code. $additional = "some te..
get text between tags
Using DOMDocument you can get strings between tags Useful if you are processing raw html files with php function getTextBetweenTags($string, $tagname){ $d = new DOMDocument(); $d->load..
sqlite basic sql and loop results
basic loop through sql results using sqlite and php $sql = "select $field_name from $db_table_name"; $out = ""; $result = $db->query($sql); if($result) { while($row = $result->fetchA..
convert all images into base64 encoded
if you have a bunch of html with inline image links this will convert them into base64 images inline. <?php $html = "my html string with multiple image tags..."; $dom = new DOMD..
wordpress change domain in config, wordpress domain config
When moving wordpress sites around the place its usually easiest to change the domain like this. add these to your wp-config.php file define('WP_HOME','http://newsite.com'); define('WP_SITEURL','ht..
read and sort directory contents in php
if you need to read in the contents of a directory in php and sort it by date header('Content-Type: application/json'); $dir = "./html/"; $file_type = ".html"; $out = ""; $files_array[] = ""; ..
uniqid random string
Here is a smaller implimentation of the built in uniqid() function. Good if you want to generate smaller unique strings for url's uniqid example suniqid(5) function suniqid($len = 5) { $..
show response headers from file get contents
this will show the http_response_header when using file get contents, can be useful for seeing what the server is doing. $contents = @file_get_contents($url); echo "<pre>"; var_dump($http_re..
wordpress show the page content for use in a template
if you are using page templates in wordpress and need to show content from wordpress this is the easiest method. This only works for wordpress "pages" not blog "posts". For showing blog posts you will..
file get contents reads entire file into a string
you can use the file_get_contents function to read a file or a web address usage get a url content $homepage = file_get_contents('http://www.example.com/'); echo $homepage; get a file con..
using parse_url to extract parts of a url
Category: PHP the parse_url php function will split a url into an array of url fragments $url = "http://kruxor.com/path/?argument=value#anchor"; var_dump(parse_url($url)); parse_url example ..
basic for loop
I know i always forget this so ill add it here, see if i can remember it. This should count to 10 Out 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
try catch test
try and catch example try { //enter code to catch file_get_contents($link); } catch(Exception $ex){ //Process the exception $page_content .= "Unable to process : $link"; }
tell wordpress to use the direct file method if its asking for ftp details
this usually happens if the permissions on the wordpress wp-content folder are not correct or writable. check the permissions are correct: (this is for apache, the user names might be different che..
