September 20, 2008
PHP
1 Comment
Here's a little one-liner I thought up today for this PHPBuilder forum thread. It's purpose is to calculate someone's age when you know the year, month, and day of their birth (integer values). In this snippet it is assumed that $year, $month, and $day hold the integer values for the birthday of interest.
$today = time();
for($yr = $year, $age = -1; mktime(0,0,0,$month,$day,$yr) < $today; $yr++, $age++);
echo $age;
This utilizes the often ignored fact that you can use comma-separated statements for the first and third expressions in the for loop definition list.
September 6, 2008
PHP
1 Comment
After seeing the effectiveness of the Akisment WordPress plug-in at filtering out spam comments here, I decided to see if I could use it in conjunction with a email contact form. I thought it might be interesting to some of my readers (there are at least a couple) to keep a sort of journal here of what I do to accomplish that, plus it might help encourage me to finish it.
So the first thing I've done is to create an Akismet class that can take the pertinent data, contact the Akismet server via cURL and send it that data, and then return the response as a boolean (true == spam, false == not spam).
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September 5, 2008
HTML, PHP
3 Comments
In response to this thread at WebDeveloper.com, I came up with the idea of using PHP's Tidy functions to format the HTML output from a script. The basic idea was to capture all the output by using ob_start() to buffer the output and then ob_get_clean() to save it to a variable. Then just run it through the tidy_repair_string() function with a couple configuration settings to indent it.
<?php
ob_start();
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Test</h1>
<ul>
<li>This is a test.</li>
<li>It is only a test.</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
<?php
$text = ob_get_clean();
$config = array(
'indent' => true,
'indent-spaces' => 4
);
$text = tidy_repair_string($text, $config);
echo $text;
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September 3, 2008
General
2 Comments
Note: See the comments section regarding the change in the EULA.
As I posted at PHPBuilder.com, Ghrome, Google's entry into the browser wars, now has a beta version available for public download (Windows XP/Vista only, for now).
My initial impression is that it works just fine and seems pretty "peppy". For me it has one bug so far: I cannot scroll up via the touchpad on my notebook PC, though it scrolls down just fine. (I've submitted a bug report on it, and it appears others have had the same problem.)
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