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Here’s a quick way to strip off characters from a string using PHP’s function substr.
<?
$var = ‘05 Delete’;
$var = substr($var,0,2);
echo($var); // returns “05″
?>
If you wanted to strip off the characters from the end of a string, just change the “2″ to “-2″ and it will strip off the last two characters.

Just another quick way to automate the simple process of creating HTML selects with a function. This small function with also remember which value was selected by checking it against the $_POST value and adding a selected=”SELECTED” to that option.
2 dimentional array:

$people_array = array(
‘1′ => ‘Bob’,
‘2′ => ‘James’,
[...]

Being a very big music buff, I love being able to see what my music habits are. I’m currently using the most up-to-date version of Winamp, which does a good job of keep a history of what I listen to, but I wanted this info on the web for the world to see.
Fortunatly, Last.fm has [...]

Quite a few times during projects I only want to find a single value from the database. But rather than setting up WHILE loop, I’ve been using a quick function that does two things perfectly.
Here’s the function:

// returns single result
function mysql_one_data($query)
{
$one=mysql_query($query);
$r=mysql_fetch_row($one);
return($r[0]);
}

// returns single array
function mysql_one_array($query)
{
[...]

No steering wheel or pedals, you drive it with a joystick. And mom said video games would never benefit me… look who’s laughing now. Still her… I can hear her from the basement.