find a custom data attribute in simple html dom

locate the div based on a custom data attribute, in this case the data-field="regularMarketChange" full docs

css cursor types testing

testing all (most) of the available css cursor types, you can mouse over to test how the cursors react depending on your browser type and operating system.  refs https://developer.mozilla.org/e..

Using the HTML tag details for easy accordions

Using the HTML Tag ` ` for automatic accordions.

mysql to sqlite notes

  ### MySQL to SQLite converterhttps://pypi.org/project/mysql-to-sqlite3/https://github.com/dumblob/mysql2sqlitehttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/3890518/convert-mysql-to-sqlite ```pip instal..

select something with custom data attribute css

selecting something by its custom data attribute and value in css

function causing slow load time

i had this function matching a uid using a binary select query. The sites were loading in about 8 full seconds according to my load timer, sometimes up to 12 seconds! So this was running on old site ..

show views list function

list items by the view count

list page links function list_page_links

list top number of page links from selected table test run time on db of 4k items.  select * from pages where publish = 'publish' order by insdate desc limit 10 10 rows (0.005 s)

Deprecated: parse_str(): Calling parse_str() without the result argument is deprecated

I had this error on a function that i was not even sure i was calling. This was on some old code i was testing for an old site, i must have fixed this error on a never version of the function.  ..

chart js line chart dont show below 0 and add axis labels

Now we take the chart js chart and add some axis labels on x and y using the same options values. This will also add axis labels to the chart on the x and y axis Javascript options: { scales: {..

chart js line chart dont show below 0

had an issue where the chart was displaying values in the negative, and wanted to start the chart at 0 and no go below. the additional option fixed this issue.  Javascript options: { scales..

Simple Line chart with Chart.js

a nice simple line chart example with fill using chart.js

Slick slider code testing with slower slides and auto play on videos

additional testing with changes for slick slider videos and auto play

Chat GPT slick slider code testing

slick slider testing using code from chat gpt 1. write for me the code to embed a video into slick slider in html and css 2. can you also add the javascript required to get this working 3. can..

windows robocopy /? help and usage

Reference for the windows robocopy command ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ROBOCOPY :: Robust File Copy for Windows ..

fancybox v3.4 - Mixed gallery

imgur upload from php

function that takes an image and uploads it to imgur using a client api id, and then returns all the data. i did this one ages ago and did not make it into a function, but this version should work as..

simple pie get link from enclosure item in simplepie rss feed

i had an item like this in a rss feed, and i wanted to grab the enclosure url, took me a while to figure this out for some reason even though the solution is quite simple.  PHP <item> &l..

loading a non processed item using the load_from_fields_array function

Example using the load_from_fields_array function  to load a single item where the processed value is equal to FALSE.

cookie consent quick install script js html css vanilla

Found this super slick looking cookie consent script here, looks awesome, and its easy to install (i hope). https://github.com/orestbida/cookieconsent  CDN Links https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/or..

Random User Profile Loading Script in vue

uses the random user ui here to generate profile boxes using vue js  original script here: https://codepen.io/l-i-lc/pen/WNxNwvd?editors=1010   

Twitter Post Fetcher v18.0.4 - javascript twitter feed fetcher

A few queries showing how to get latest tweets and post likes using the Twitter Post Fetcher v18.0.4 script.

php strip non numbers from string - remove all non-numeric characters from a string

this will remove all non alpha numeric numbers from a string. in this example it returns: 123456 from $1234.56x  

MySQL to Sqlite converter

# Converts a mysqldump file into a Sqlite 3 compatible file. It also extracts the MySQL `KEY xxxxx` from the# CREATE block and create them in separate commands _after_ all the INSERTs. # Awk is choos..

using preg_match to extract text from elements

using preg_match to extract specified text from elements I also tried this search "if you have the start and end of a string extract the middle with php" as thats really all i need it to do, i have t..

Robocopy Options /? help

My usual backup command is now robocopy source destination *.* /M robocopy d:\ f:\ *.* /M Update: actually scrap that, its /E not /M, i used to use the /MIR option, but as deleting files in the des..

php validate email function

php function that can be used to validate an email address string

php function load as table - load_as_table

Load data and add into a table format by passing in the required fields as an array.  Example Result Live Example https://kruxor.com/view/nz_postcodes/5KrBW/zurich-place-weymouth-manukau/&nb..

get json with php from a url and display it

yep its that easy. this code shows getting the contents from a json request api. var dumping all of the results and extracting one single item by its array key and showing it. 

php convert number with k on the end to full number

I have a function that converts raw numbers into shorthand or human readable numbers, but was wondering how to convert these back if they are stored in that format, and also makes it better if you are..

extract variables from url string php

How do I extract query parameters from a URL string in PHP? You can do this using the parse_url function or parse_str function in php.  Say my url string is:  $url = "https://kruxor.com..

basic radio checklist - check and item and get its value in a textarea

a basic radio input type checklist, where you can only select one of the items in the list.  Ok so no longer so basic.  This script allows you to fil the value of a text area with the valu..

Invalid argument supplied for foreach()

Fix for Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/pages/seo-meta-tag-search.page.php on line 204 As this is just a warning, i may not have noticed it originall..

Search Duplicating Bugs

Still having issues with the word above duplicating, not sure why.  Search Page PHP - Get Search Value $search_value_encoded = htmlentities($search_value); Check for Search value, and then ..

Twitter Post Fetcher Script

Uses javascript to fetch a twitter feed from a user screen name. Totally stylable alternative to using the twitter embed code. Your Welcome... 

Footer Design and Redesign

I never usually look this far down on the site, but its a bit average... Lets fix it!   Some simple changes Just a few elements added and moved around a bit. Added another row to the f..

Javascript Objects Notes

As javascript objects are used so often in javascript i thought i would write an overview and some notes on how they work, well how they work for me anyway. I guess how they work for me should be simi..

console dir usage

the console.dir function shows a list of the properties or the target object. Usage console.dir(variable); Result Example

Core Function : list_search_by_class_return_links - List Searches by Class Type and Return Links

Function that list's the latest and top searches by the class name and return a list of links, with the search totals on them.  I wanted to extract the top searches and the latest searches by da..

convert characters to entities using javascript replace

takes a html string and replaces the html elements into their equivalent characters. e.g: replaces < with &lt;

generate view statistics widget in php class extend

How i generate the Week, Month and Year view statistics widget for this site.  Views Widget Function This generates the widget based on the views data. PHP // views widget /* using fi..

Auto Create HTML Code Snippets

make anything within a <code> tag into a nice looking code snippit with highlighting via prism. To get this code to make a snippit, you need to: Give an element a .make-snippet class and it's ..

get the subdomain name from the domain string in php - sub domain

returns the first part of a domain string, for example moo.kruxor.com will return moo

card.html template

a card template with title, content and a mb-3 for bottom margin for usage with the php template system.

loop to arr.length or array length

showing a simple loop that uses the length of the array to find the end of the loop. This just console logs each item in the array and stops the loop when it gets to the end of the array. 

get tomorrows date with javascript

Same as the get yesterdays date except with a +1 rather than a -1 let tomorrow = new Date(new Date().setDate(new Date().getDate()+1));  

get yesterdays date with javascript

This gets todays date and minuses one day from it to be ... yesterday.  let yesterday = new Date(new Date().setDate(new Date().getDate()-1));console.log(yesterday); This format is the full da..

Create Strings using Template Literals

if you use the backtick to enclose your strings you no longer have to use \n for a new line.  For example: `this is a multiline ...string!!` Console Example

extract meta attributes with simple html dom

pass in the url as import_url and it will search for the meta keywords tag and echo the result.

simple html dom check if an attribute is set and has a value

simple javascript no library accordion

a simple button and div based accordion with a toggled indicator

Using Destructuring and the Rest Parameter to Reassign Array Elements

Use destructuring assignment with the rest parameter to perform an effective Array.prototype.slice() so that arr is a sub-array of the original array source with the firs..

Use destructuring assignment to swap the values of a and b

Use destructuring assignment to swap the values of a and b so that a receives the value stored in b, and b receives the value stored in a. I was havi..

Spam IP Database and delete button

The Background and Reason for the SPAM IP Database and Delete I actually wrote up half of this article and was still testing the function and lost the whole post, which will teach me for adding it st..

youtube search api request function

This function requests a search from the youtube search api, and searches the text in the snippet for the seearch string. You can get your own API key for this from the google developers console. They..

list all array json function list_all_array_json

I wrote this a while ago, and i always forget the complex functions i write so ill add it here.  This loads all fields and then returns them as json. 

php function to remove the query string from a url

i was reusing this a few times manually and thought i would save my self a bit of time by just using the following function which returns the same full url, but removes the query string from it. ..

using php parse_url function to remove the query string from a url

I recently had to remove the query string from a url, the bit after the ?key=1 or whatever is after the actual url.  I initially thought i could just use a explode function on the ? which would ..

Fix for PHP Warning Trying to get property '*name*' of non-object

i was getting this error when checking parts of an object that were sometimes set and sometimes they did not exist depending on the values.  Warning / Error : Warning Trying to get property '*na..

sqlite fetchArray into another array

was having an issue when trying to return a multi array using sqlite over multiple rows. Stack Overflow Inspiration  I tried a few of these but it was not incrementing key, and also it was only..

generate random username function in php

a function that takes several random words and creates a user name from them. This will generate a user name with between one to three words and a prefix if prefix_show is set to true. usage generat..

How to Use PropTypes to Define Props in React

React allows you to define the types of props given to your components to make sure that invalid data is not sent as the prop to the element.  To do this you can define propTypes. You can defin..

javascript basic test array and loop

Here is just a basic test array and a loop to show a basic loop through the test array.  With the loop i use the length of the array as the max variable, so the loop stops when it hits the array..

add hero title to category listing page [not done]

add the hero title and background to the category listing page as a page title or category header.  e.g: https://kruxor.com/category/code/react/

how to join an array in javascript using the join method

This example shows how we can join an array into a string using the join method. Its a nice quick way to convert your array into a string with a delimiter such as , or ; Here we can see the test arr..

How to Pass an Array as Props in React

If you need to pass larger amounts of information to a component you can pass in an array rather than just a single variable. More information on the join method on the array can be found here. Here..

list_all_array an early stages of list all function that uses an array to pass in main variables

I think this is more neat than passing in individual variables into the list_all function, seems to work ok so far.  Still in early stages of this listing function, more needs to be built into i..

replace singular variable assignment with an array loop and variable variables

I found this useful when passing in an array to a function, rather than assigning all the variables in the function manually from the array just loop through each item in the array and asign them that..

using the $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] to check referring pages

shows how you can display the contents of the $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] tag in php to show referring pages i read in an article that this is stripped out of HTTPS requests, but it seems to still be wo..

category listing not working on categories with spaces [not fixed]

for some reason the site bugs category and potentially other categories that have spaces in their names are not listing properly. Test URL: https://kruxor.com/category/code/site+bugs/  Probab..

Changing the default hero image based on the category name [not yet done]

This is more of a todo item, at the moment the hero image uses the same image for every post unless a hero is specified for each, i would also like to set the default image per category so if the post..

console table rather than console log for javascript objects and arrays

so i just saw on a tweet, that you can use console.table and i cant wait to try it out! good thing i already have a test object and array ready to go!  

timeline class and function

this is a class extend that generates a timeline based on structured data and order's the items by year decending. this code will not work out of the box as it has other requirements, but it is a goo..

bootstrap alert template

here is a templated bootstrap alert where you can switch the alert type with the @alert_type variable. Here are the different alerts: primary secondary success danger warning info light dar..

bootstrap list group card with footer

a list group within a card and also a footer on the card for additional links. 

list group bootstrap template

this generates a bootstrap list group basic template layout, nice option for lists with links in them rather than using a ul li style list, this makes them into neater looking elements so rather than ..

list group card item template

this is a list group item for usage with the template list group or list group card template.

php html template class system

just a simple php templating system to extract your html files from within the php code into external files, makes things (or your code) a bit neater.

list group card template

list group card template for usage with the php template class

views list function for checking what views have been made on the current week

this is related to the views class that i added with monthly week number and yearly views, this is the function that i use to extract the top viewed pages for the week num, month num and year num. I ..

load array load all items from an array while in a sqlite load sql loop

i find this useful when loading a bunch of items in a class while looping through data, rather than assigning variables manually i just add the array of item names into the class to begin with and the..

Idea: Google Font Dropdown Selector Code

just an idea at the moment, a dropdown list of google fonts and when selected it loads that selected font using the @import css tag.  Loading the fonts Gist : not tested https://gist.github.com..

twitter social sharing meta tags

I had done this one so many times on client sites I actually forgot that i had not applied it to my own site! Doh! Anyway this is the tag setup i use for adding the title, url, author and featured im..

get and show the featured image on a wordpress page template

this will extract the featured image on wordpress page if you are using custom page templates. 

How to record your own page views with PHP, and make them into weekly monthly and yearly charts

Building a better Simple Page View Counter Currently this site has a very basic view counter on it.  Here is how it currently works. Load the page, function checks if the page has a existing r..

load from fields array php class function

this class function loads from multiple fields from an array, much easier than passing in a bunch of variables into a function nice and clean, the only issue is you need to remember what fields to add..

twitter json feed testing

just testing using the Twitter Post Fetcher script, seems to be working well.

function to load one latest item with a start val load_latest_single_num

This is the same as load oldest item based on insdate then update the insdate to now - load_latest_single_update but it allows you to add a start number to the range, so allows you to access the 2nd, ..

check if a product already exists by its md5

center mode slick zoom testing

update : this is a tricky one to get working! I have done a lot of testing on this one, and got a demo working from a combination of the following links. the demo is still not 100% styled, but its..

load random videos module using template

load 3 random items and extract the video url, and use the youtube function to create a thumbnail and link to that video page

PHP/SQLite - Load Random Item

loads a random item from the current class / db using sqlite.

extract youtube image from video url

showing how you can get the image wallpaper in different sizes from a youtube video I used to have this tool a while ago, it just passes the video id and extracts the images and also can produce the ..

simple php ip blocker

just to quickly block annoying ip addresses using an array and $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] so i woke up this morning to find 200 comments from this spam ip, here is a simple script that will block that i..

vertically align text within a fixed height div using flex

this can be used to make text align nicely while still keeping the same layout. the example below shows how you can set the height of the containing element and still have the text aligned center to ..

old browser check with javascript

modified from this script i console logged all the items available so you can do what you need with them these are the avilable variables Javascript console.log(browser.agent);console.log(browser...

preg replace clean a string only allow a-zA-Z0-9 characters

allows only a-zA-Z0-9 and spaces

weird search results being recorded

i noticed some weird search results being recorded like this: the search function should only be recording a result if it finds a result, so this should not be added unless it can actually find thi..

verify the google recapture server php

i was still getting quite a bit of spam even after using google recapture v2 and i think this is just as i was using the javascript only version, which disables the submit button if the capture is not..

using clamp js to clamp lines of text

there is a css version of this as well but this version works in a greater range of browsers (i think) this one is not working for me... i think the overflow elipsis is still a better option than thi..

use a list group for listing by category page [todo]

change this to a list group, should make it neater. Page to update: https://kruxor.com/list-category/code/  so for some reason this is listed using this function PHP $list_wiki_menu = $clas..

load the latest single item only

this function loads the lastest item from the selected class

load oldest item based on insdate then update the insdate to now - load_latest_single_update

i keep finding these functions that i wrote ages ago and forgot about so ill list them here so maybe i can remember them. I think this one was to loop through items, so it grabs the oldest item and t..

change this to a list group - other items

Other item format is a bit average, list group should fix this.  This uses the template: core-list-item-simple.html  So we can change this a bit to the list group format.  Which i..

hero widget header - creates a nice looking hero item from a target uid and class

this creates a "nice" looking hero widget, just wanted to create something that looked decent and had an attached background image, surprizingly annoying to link items together. For some reason i kee..

Latest from Code Widget

What generates the Latest from Code Widget? Code PHP $widget_latest_list = $class->list_all(        $start = 0,        $max = 10,      &n..

counting the occurrence of words in a multidimensional array

array sorting example The array Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => Some [1] => great-looking [2] => special [3] => editio..

json test objects (or arrays)

here is a couple of test objects in external js files just in case you need to test some ajax loading functions or need external objects, i mostly use them in my testing. Basic JSON Object with 3 ite..

loop through a complex object json javascript

just a note to say that a complex object is an object with more than one nested object in it for example just kinda playing around with this one to get the handle on objects and how to access them C..

json load from jquery and loop through the results

this is the same as this post but i have added the object to an external test file. so rather than already having the object data on the page we have to load it somehow Note: you can test that the o..

set active class based on url value

this will check the full url and then loop through all the a elements in #test-div when it finds a matching url it will add the class active to that button this is good for persisting active links o..

adding an item to an array with php

how to add items to an array in php here is a working sandbox version of this code: sandbox. 

passing in arrays to your functions rather than using variables

this is probably an old technique, but i discovered it the other day when i was playing around, and i thought wow i should do this to all my functions, i cant see the downside, apart from having to re..

check server https or http value in php using $_SERVER

this will check the server method and if its https assign the value to $server_http_val so this will either be "https://" or "http://" good for generating full url's for your domain. 

Remove background image php with image magic

untested research on removing background and making it transparent with php

get current url with php

this checks is $_SERVER['HTTPS'] is set and $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] to construct the current url

list a functions variables or arguments

i think this has to be used within the function to get its arguments, i have not tested this one yet.

add a toast alert when logging in with half moon

example of adding a document dom ready wait and then the script that launches a new toast message just adapting a php cms using halfmoon as the ui, its quite nice.  a bit bright in non dark mod..

python extract images into an array from a url

this should extract all images from a url into an array using python python from bs4 import BeautifulSoupfrom urllib.request import urlopenurl = "https://www.kruxor.com/view/code/LOveX/"page = urlop..

php basic page router

this php page router while pretty basic does the job for this site. it takes all the query string and splits it with the / into $p variables you will also need the following nginx or similar page rew..

Creating a chart about charts.css with charts.css from the command line

Creating a chart about charts.css with charts.css from the command line: BASH (      echo "<table class='charts-css bar show-labels show-heading'>"      echo "&l..

replacement slider for ken wheeler's slick carousel tiny slider 2 [testing]

I have been looking for a little while for a replacement for the now classic and a bit depreciated, ken wheeler's slick carousel. After a bit of looking around i think the best replacement, is a non ..

loop through object json javascript

this shows how you can loop through a javascript object using for if you check the console you can see the loop results

Adding HTML Templates into TinyMCE Editor

This can be very useful if you are using the tinymce editor on your site and want to be able to add simple or complex html templates. Here is how to do it: Add this to your tinymce init Javascrip..

jquery page search [testing]

just testing this one at the moment for a in page search.  Based on this: https://codepen.io/chriscoyier/pen/ExgqWab  I would like to adapt this code to search through page elements and ma..

install atom editor on ubuntu

You can download atom from https://atom.io/ and run the .deb package or if you want to use apt you will need to add it as a repository. https://flight-manual.atom.io/getting-started/sections/installi..

change images to upload file also to imgur [reported]

may also create a seperate db to store imgur image links? can update the source_link in the current images to link to the imgur version. I remember i did this a while ago but cant remember the code ..

enable dark mode in tinymce

Here we have a darkmode verion of tinymce, ahh my eyes feel much better. The change to version 5 seems quite easy as well, as it uses the same init script as 4 still.  You need to also includ..

install codemirror for textareas [added]

i think rather than editing all the code using just a plain textarea element it might be nice to have codemirror format them nicer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21085170/codemirror-how-to-insta..

add a youtube video preloader function, lazy load youtube [fixed]

I noticed that this list page: https://kruxor.com/list/rs3_efficient_skill/ Loads about 29 (well exactly 29) youtube video embeds and was wondering if there was an easy way to replace these iframes w..

spin rotate an element on mouse over [css]

i thought it might look good to spin this element around when the mouse is over it. Added the following css to second_nav_toggle.  

animate and zoom six elements on a timer [addClass, removeClass, setTimeout]

set of six elements that i wanted to highlight using a simple setTimeout and the addClass and removeClass  this also involves some css changes to get this working i would also like in the fut..

add a comment recording system for posts [idea]

add a custom comment system for code and posts with google recapcha

fix view page for search links [reported]

its still showing raw data on these view pages e.g https://kruxor.com/view/search_links/KJYU0/mt-maunganui/  Looks like that example is already out of date, here is a new one: https://kruxor..

should have a different menu colour [reported]

style page numbers [fixed]

need to style the page numbers. https://kruxor.com/list-table/search_links/  Before: After: Dark Mode Light Mode  

explode a string into an array

This uses the php explode function to split a string into an array based on a delimiter character. I always forget which order this goes in.

checking the current url and then marking a link active based on that url

i want a script that can check the current page uri and then match it to a list of links to be able to add an active class that survives page reloading So here we go... 1. Get the current page url. ..

linking search results to view pages [finished] 🤣

I was thinking it might be useful to link the search term to the page, so that it can be found more easily using that search. For example, Link this search text (somehow) to the post page and display..

badge border colour is too dark or light on number badges [fixed]

I noticed that the badges here were to light, so i must have missed something when updating the badge css. Demo Linkhttps://www.kruxor.com/search/code/site+bugs/ Bug Status:Fixed Problem: The bo..

badge placement is offset in list pages [fixed]

Another bug caused by the badge changes I think this can be added to a grid as well, and have the category on the left and the date on the right. Then need to align the category badge nicer.  ..

top bar overflow issues [fixed]

So i was just browsing throught the site checking for random errors, which there are quite a lot. And noticed this one. Quite a large bug caused by overflow issues in the main header, i think this ..

include tinymce only if a user is logged into the site

For google page speed i had an issue when every page was loading tinymce, which is quite a large script. I only actually use this script when editing pages, so this is the change i made to only inser..

vimeo thumbnail generator

Monitoring Visible Objects on Screen

i found this one when researching how to detect visible objects on screen, and then doing something with them. This one does not use any external scripts to change the box colour as it becomes visible..

how to install js socials for social media share buttons and make them rounded

This should be a nice quick one on how to install js socials which add social media sharing buttons on your pages.  Yeah i always just ignore these as well, but hey some people may use them?? H..

Quick tool to convert time into decimal

I needed a quick tool that can convert say 20 minutes into decimal, as im doing this a lot these days. Here is what i come up with, well you can google it as well and that works, but this form is a bi..

Leaflet Quick Start Example

just a quick start map embed for leaflet js an alternative to google maps

match a category id in wordpress and then add styles just for that id

this is in template-parts/content.php which may be different based on your theme or version of wordpress.  you can locate the category id in wordpress by going into categories and then clicking ..

wordpress get the current category id name and slug

This gets and displays the current category id in a wordpress blog post if you have the current id, if not you can leave the $post_id blank and it should see if there is a category loaded to the curre..

enable tinymce on a target textarea by id

this is useful if you have multiple textareas on a page and want to enable tinymce on, also included are buttons to enable and disable on all textareas on the page

Bootstrap Darkmode Switch

I have tried this before without success but i googled "Bootstrap Darkmode Switch" and found this repo at the top of the list. So i thought i would give it a try on here and see how it looks. Demo pag..

stop tinymce replacing urls with relative url's

If you have been using tiny mce for your content editing, you will sometimes find that it replaces your full url strings with its relative ones. This can be annoying so this is how you can disable it..

Custom JS Tabs - No Jquery or Jquery UI

change string to capital words ucwords

This will change an upper case or lower case, or mixed case string to uc words. Example with this page title

get element by class name with javascript and change it function

You may have seen the get element by id in javascript, which is great when there is only one element but what if you need to get the element using its class name The issue with classes is that they c..

making var_dump look nice

i was var_dumping an array the other day, and it comes out like a massive string you cant read. a fast way to make this readable is just to add some pre tags to it.

Load and Unload TinyMCE editor from a button

Enable TinyMCE Disable TinyMCE Some Content function load_tinymce(idclass) { tinymce.init({ selector: idclass, plugins: [ "spellchecker code aut..

Nginx Server Block with Rewrite

Nginx Server Block with Rewrite Here is a basic nginx server block with rewrite to the index.php file. So it takes all the parameters and passes them into the index, into the variable $p or $_GE..

for loop through an array with javascript

looping through an array with javascript using a basic for loop

sublime text find and replace style tag

good if you have inline styles you want to remove using regex find and replace. in sublime press ctrl + H to do find and replace then paste in the style="([^

target data attribute with css

you can add a data attribite and target it with css using the following demo

basic for loop odd numbers

a basic for loop with odd numbers adding to an array

check if something is an array

this function will check if something is an array

getType function for js

this function returns the type of item, array object string number etc

Objects in javascript

creating and using an object in javascript, the full version of this testing is on codepen

IP Address

this uses php $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] to show your IP address

add something to the start of an array with unshift

unshift is the opposite of push where push adds to the end of an array unshift will add to the start of the array.

remove the first element in an array with shift

like pop but shift does the 1st element in an array

remove something from the end of an array with pop

pop is the opposite of push and will remove the last item in an array, it also returns the value so you can assign it to a variable

add something to the end of an array with push

you can easily add to the end of a javascript array with the .push function.

Multidimensional Array

sounds complex, but it's not really here is an example of a Multidimensional Array in javascript. It's just one array nested in another.

get the last letter of a string

you can use the .length and the index of a string to get its last value

accessing part of a variable using its index

you can access part of a string variable using its index[1]

Random string generator function in php suniqid

Here is a a smaller version of the built in php function uniqid() uses letters and numbers and specify the length of the random string.

Applied Accessibility - Access Keys

Access keys can be applied to link elements and in chrome you can access them by pressing ALT+ SHIFT + [accesskey] for some reason when testing this in chrome the a key was not accessible, but g and ..

using the disk free space function in php

here is a built in php function that will show the amount of free space available on your server.

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..

check if a user is logged in using sessions

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.

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 ..

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.

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

sqlite check table name exists

check that the table name exists in a sqlite database, this function it taken from a class.

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..

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 &lt;h1&gt;

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..

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) { $..

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 ..

wordpress enqueue slicknav and slick slider

add this to your theme scripts functions file here is the full one from HTML5 Blank // Load HTML5 Blank scripts (header.php) function html5blank_header_scripts() { if ($GLOBALS['pagenow'] != ..

wordpress use a shortcode in php gravity forms

good for using shortcodes in your wordpress templates

extract meta tags from url and return as json array

this will download the url and extract its meta tags returning a json encoded string, with json headers. If the url is accessable. <?php header('Content-Type: application/json'); if(!isset($..

csv read example

Not sure if this is the best or correct way of handling CSV file imports, but it worked for me. here is an example of opening a csv and importing the content into a class, you will need to create ..

preg_replace ereg_replace replace all chars

This will replace all characters that are not A-Z a-z 0-9 and - $uid = preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z0-9\-]/", '', $uid);

wordpress advanced custom fields replace shortcode for site url with blog url

Using advanced custom fields, if you know what the shortcode is and what you want to replace it with you can do so with the following. $site_url = get_site_url(); $field = get_field('template_ht..

using custom request headers array with curl

this function passes in an array with custom request headers to curl, good if you need to pass in some headers to request an api url and give it an auth key or something like that. Also added to the a..

simple html dom extract attributes simplehtmldom

this is if you have an element as follows, and you want to extract attributes from it. <img class="an-image-wow" src="image.jpg" data-image="data-image.jpg" alt="my alt tag"> list all its attr..

find the 1st occurence of a string in another string

do a case-sensitive search for a string within another string strpos mixed strpos ( string $haystack , mixed $needle [, int $offset = 0 ] ) usage find the 1st location of a string position within a..

extract meta tags from file or url as array

php has a built in function that can be used to extract the meta tags from a page url into an array. usage just pass it a url, if you call this file meta.php. usage: meta.php?url=http://my-url.co..

search within files in a directory

During my quest to create a semi-static site that is searchable and fast to load. I thought while loading all of this content in with ajax and such that it would be interesting if i could do a text ..

count the elements in an array

seems easy, if you need to know the amount of elements in an array this is how you do it. good if you need to know where the end of an array is. code <pre> <?php $array = [ "yo", ..

google map with overlay data

Ever wanted to add a really slightly complex google map to your site? Working Example /* Always set the map height explicitly to define the size of the div * element that con..

change favicon with jquery

Updated: This seems to not work on this page, as it has multiple link icon elements to deal with different sizes. I just changed it to a function and it runs ok, but the browser seems to choose a diff..

load google sheet data into json string with jquery

Just discovered this the other day, you can actually export google sheets data into json format and load it directly into your site, how good is that. A free mini basic database! Initially i was lo..

change the water colour in google maps for an already initialised map

good if you are using google maps and cant change the original map init code to change the styles. var mapOptions = { styles: [ { featureType: "water", stylers: [ { v..

mithril testing

https://mithril.js.org/simple-application.html example this example is not going to work without npm Adding Elements How to add a link using mithril with target _blank m("a[href=https://mithril..

validate form data using javascript to check required html elements

for use in a javascript function to submit a form var form = document.getElementById('myForm'); for(var i=0; i < form.elements.length; i++){ if(form.elements[i].value === '' && form.elements[i..

tiny mce editor tinymce

Just loading the editor, as its useful for formatting stuff sometimes 😋. I usually use a function to load it into text areas with the tool bars + styles that i find useful. Example fu..

json loop load elements

Loading json content from a url can be tricky, there are a few different things you need to watch out for. Here is some examples using an example json feed. Load the feed this will load the feed and..

testing chartjs

Update: 30 June 2020 I checked this code, and it was broken all fixed now. The issue with the demo included on the main site is that it was trying to run the chart js before the chart library was load..

access hacker news json firebase api via jquery

Just a getJSON JQuery Request that will console log all of the hacker news top stories using the firebase api $.getJSON('https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json', function(json) { va..

stacktable jQuery plugin for stacking tables on small screens

stacktable.js The purpose of stacktable.js is to give you an easy way of converting wide tables to a format that will work better on small screens. It creates a copy of the table that is converted in..

target internet explorer with css and html

target all internet explorer versions with this <!--[if IE]> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="all-ie-only.css" /> <![endif]--> target ie 10 and 11 p { col..