How to Slugify a String in PHP
Here is a snippet for generating a URL friendly slug in PHP
function slugify($string){
return strtolower(trim(preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9-]+/', '-', $string), '-'));
}
And you can use it in your code like so
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Written by Sean Behan on 10/26/2017
Recursively Search Contents of a File with Grep
The -r flag is for recursive, meaning it will also look in sub directories. The -i flag is for case insensitivity, meaning WORD and word will both be found.
grep -ir "search term" directory/path
Written by Sean Behan on 08/29/2013
How to Extract all Images from a Webpage with Ruby
Here is a little ruby snippet that will download all pictures from a webpage.
Rather than using XPath, we are going to first reduce the source code to capture everything inside of quotes. Some websites use JSON w/in a script tag to lazy load images an...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/01/2018
A List of Every High School in the United States in Pipe Delimitted Form (2005)
Here is a text file containing every high school in the United States(2005), including city, state, zip code and high school name.
us_high_schools_pd
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Reading, Writing, Removing Files and Directories in Ruby
These aren't all of them, but I think they are some of the most useful.
# making a directory in another directory that doesn't yet exist...
FileUtils.mkdir_p '/path/to/your/directory/that/doesnt/exist/yet'
# recursively remove a directory and the conten...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
