Listing all files and directories using PHP 5. <?php $files = array(); $dir = dir("."); while(false!==($file=$dir->read())): if(($file{0}!=".") && ($file{0}!="~") && (substr($file, -3)!="LCK") && ($file!=basename($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]))): ...

Function for highlighting text/strings in PHP. $content = file_get_contents("http://php.net/"); print highlight("PHP", $content); function highlight($match, $string){ return str_ireplace($match, "<span style='background:yellow'>$match</span&...

I was in the market for a simple php script to replace hrefs with their absolute paths from scraped web pages. I wrote one myself. I used the preg_replace_callback function so that I could pass the parsed results as a single variable. <?php $domain =...

What is Rack? Rack provides a minimal, modular and adaptable interface for developing web applications in Ruby. By wrapping HTTP requests and responses in the simplest way possible, it unifies and distills the API for web servers, web frameworks, and sof...

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MySQL doesn't support having two columns with time stamping on both initialization and/or on updating at the same time. It would be nice to be able to do *this* where the created_at column gets the current_timestamp on initialization and the updated_at ge...

Quick and dirty way to grab the users status messages without having to go through the twitter api (not having to authenticate that is). You can grab the RSS feed and indicate the number of statuses returned with the count param. I wrote this function for...

I'm usually at the command line so I wrote a little a bash function so that i can type tweet this is really neat but kind of pointless and it will update my twitter status! some characters trip it up but in general it's useful for most of my tweets. The...

Download First install mod_python for Apache and then restart/reload the server. apt-get install libapache2-mod-python /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload apache2ctl restart Next grab the web.py framework from webpy.org. You can grab the tar or use easy_in...