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Almost a year ago I wrote a quick article on how you can strip off characters using PHP’s built in function substr. But after reading it again, even I was not clear how it worked so how would it ever help anyone. First, if you only want to pull on character from a string, it’s [...]

You now can look in almost any website or web application where the background colors are alternating. This is a great (and easy) way to improve the user interface for the end users. Here’s a quick explanation of what’s going on in the demo file below: First we set the alternating backgrounds we want to [...]

A friend of mine recently requested a quick image rotator script that was not using Flash, but would use Javascript. Below is a script that will read through a single directory and look for any image file (jpg, gif, or png) and rotate it. Requirements: PHP jQuery (latest version) InnerFade plugin (see docs for variables [...]

Here’s a quick snip of code to help you easily manage your files by finding out the time the file was created or modified and also the time of the file. $file = ‘image.jpg’; // FILE TIME $filetime = filemtime($file); // displays in Seconds since the Unix Epoch echo date(“M j, Y”, $filetime); // would [...]

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 [...]

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’, ’3′ => ‘Jessi’, [...]

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 [...]

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) [...]

After coding for a while things no longer become “fun” to do over and over. One of those things for me is forms and particularly for this article a state drop down. Below is an array of all the current states along with a quick example of how to use it.

Since at the start of 2007 all books will no longer be using the ISBN10, we needed a way to convert all those ISBN10 numbers to the new ISBN13 (or EAN).