WordPress: Custom Single Templates by Category
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PHP Array of Reserved Usernames
Here is a list of reserved usernames found on this page. I conveniently spent the 15 minutes and put them in a PHP array for you. You’re welcome!
How to open iMessage from a webpage using HTML
Note: This works if you are on an iOS 5+ Device only. It might open up your SMS application on other devices and crash and burn. Check the user agent before displaying. iMessage can be…
PHP and Excel: UTF-8 Encoding Problem on CSV
Were we having a problem encoding a CSV to UTF-8, it was loading in the crazy characters. We tried adding BOM to the file first before we did all the ‘fputcsv’ and it worked. Hope…
PHP Function: Get the YouTube Video Id from a YouTube URL
Here is how you can get the YouTube Video ID from a URL no matter how many extra parameters get passed along with it. function getYouTubeIdFromURL($url) { $url_string = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_QUERY); parse_str($url_string, $args); return isset($args[‘v’])…
Highlight Unicode Text in PHP
I was trying to get my old highlight function to highlight Russian text from a MySQL database. No Go. It was using eregi_replace which is deprecated according to the php manual. I ended up getting…
PHP Function: Pagination
Here is my function for pagination: function createPagination($pageLink,$page,$total_pages) { if($page > $total_pages || $total_pages == 1) { return “”; } echo “<div class=”pagination”>n”; if($page != 1) { echo “<span class=’nc’><a href=””.$pageLink.($page – 1).””>< previous</a></span> …
PHP Function: Search Engine Friendly URLs
Here is the function I have been using to make friendly url strings. The second param is your spacer. function makeURLFriendly($string,$spacer = “-“) { $newstring = strtolower($string); $newstring = preg_replace(‘/[^a-zA-Zds]+/s’, ”, $newstring); $newstring = preg_replace(‘/ss+/’,…