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Fix html tags, close tags, repair bad quotes and more
This class can solve many problems coming from user generated html content or to fix html content before making some…
Recursive remove directory (RMDIR) in PHP
This small php function is a recursive remove directory that remove non empty dirs recursively. It enters every directory, removes…
Calculate dir size recursively with PHP (and count files)
This small PHP function lets you calculate the dir size entering each sub dir and making the sum of the…
10 PHP usefull functions for MySQLi stuff (mysql improved)
I’ve modified the previous post to use mysqli instead of mysql. Was it necessary? I think it was good step…
10 PHP usefull functions for MySQL stuff
Here is my personal collection of 10 php function that I always include in my database function library. I think…
Using REPLACE in an UPDATE statement to fix data on MSSQL and MySQL
Sometimes it’s necessary fix data on the database. I had to fix on a Microsoft database: I had to fix…
New version of Mini Bots PHP Class (v.1.4)
I’ve added three more bots to the Mini Bots Php Class, now the version number is 1.4 and it has…
PHP to get enum/set values from mysql field
This function returns an array with the elements allowed in a ENUM or SET mysql field. This can be usefull…
Recursive chmod on files and directory
It has happened to me that files uploaded with a small CMS cannot be downloaded with a FTP client for…
Posting to Facebook from website with Facebook Connect
This post is part of the Facebook Connect Tutorial and it will show how to add “post to wall” function…
PHP Web page to text function
I’ve found this nice small bot on the www.php.net site, thanks to the author of the script on the preg_replace…
Copying remote files on your server with PHP
UPDATE: This function has been inserted in the Mini Bots PHP Class Here is a function that let you copy…
Bot that retrieves url meta data and other infos
From a given url this function retrieves page title, meta description, keywords, favicon, and an array of 5 images to…
Sending HTML emails with attachment with PHP
This function allows you to send an HTML email with a file attachment. To do this it’s necessary to read…
Test if a remote url exists with PHP and CURL
If you have to test if a local file exists you will probably use the php file_exists function, but if…
Tiny url encode and decode with PHP
The first functions make short urls using tinyurl.com service. It’s a very popular function on the web, you can find…
Validate email with smtp
This function validate a mail address in a smart way: if the address to validate has a correct syntax (checked…
Decimal Degrees conversion and distance of two points on google map
Those two functions are usefull when you’re making Google Maps applications: When you show the coordinates of a point, it’s…
PHP bot to grab meteo information from Google
Google has many usefull functions that give you data fast, such as cinema infos, or for meteo forecasts. I think…
ASP web bot that get exchange rates
Thanks to Bank of Italy (Banca d’Italia), there are free exchange rates data that are easy to retrieve and parse,…
PHP Session class with crypted cookies.
This class was built to handle session variables, I made this class because once I had to use session variables…
Javascript Ruler for Google Maps v3 to measure distance on map
Javascript example for measuring distances on a Google Maps with a ruler.
Min height cross browser CSS
In CSS version 2 there is a “min-height” property, but it doesn’t work in the same way in every browser,…
Detect user language with PHP
This function uses php server variables to detect the “possible” language of the browser of the connected user. This let…
Mini gallery/slideshow with PHP and JQuery
Sometimes I’ve had to quickly put in a page a simple slideshow, the first times I’ve searched a lot around…
Clustering many markers with Google Maps v3
I’ve found this blog where Matthias Burtscher converted the Marker Cluster (like the Phoogle2) for Google Maps API v.3. Since…
For next project: Google Analytics API
This is a memo, because at the moment I don’t need to use this new API from Google, but since…
How many users are connected?
This two function returns the number of users connected to your site. Since HTTP is asyncronous, the only way to…
Truncate string preserving some words in PHP
When you search in Google for a string, Google highlights with bold text the words you’ve searched in the results…
Click links with JavaScript
If you want to click on objects, anchors, table cells or any other html element to emulate the javascript behaviour…
Set “write here” on input type text?
If you are using JQuery framework and you want to set up the default value of some text box in…
How do I print the elements of an object in Javascript?
This function is similar to the print_r php function: it runs over the elements of an object recursively and put…
Full Screen GControl for Google Maps
Use with phoogle modified class: (see an example here) To use it in the phoogle modified class just turn it…
How do I get the value from a combo in Javascript?
If you don’t use any javascript framework such as jquery.js or prototype.js the combo object isn’t so easy to use,…
Cross browser opacity
Is there a css definititon to make cross browser opacity? Yes. I found this, and it seems to work: If…
PHP Day add function
How to add 2 days to a date in PHP? There are many ways to add days to a string…
ASP equivalent to PHP Ucfirst function
This code does the same thing that Ucfirst function makes in PHP. “Ucfirst” means “Uppercase first letter”. ASP doesn’t have…
ASP equivalent to PHP ereg_replace function
I’ve used so many time the php function ereg_replace that when I have to use ASP (‘cause sometimens you have…
OnKeyUp Fix Alphanumerical Chars
When you have an html form and you want only alphanumerical [a-z0-9] chars in your input, you can use this…
Do spelling using google spell checker
If you have a user input that may contains some error you can try to check the spelling using Google…
Parse a float number in javascript
This small code parse a javascript float number to a string. It converts the number to a string and let…
Phoogle Modified Class for Google Maps
I was looking for a php class to use on Rockit.it to geo reference band, festivals, labels and other stuff.…
Make square thumbs or cropped thumbs with php
This is a thumb generator php class. I’ve been searching a lot for some code to make good thumbs on…
Stop UTF8 problems with special characters
I’m italian and I always need to use special chars like è é à ù. The same need belongs to…
Execute Scalar and Execute Row for Php
A couple of simple functions thar returns the first value and the first row of a result set. Very usefull.…