Arpad Ray http://arpad.co.uk Est. 1984 Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:12:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Fu**ing numeric ranges in regex A question I hear quite frequently is, how do you match a number within a range in a regular expression? This is a pretty odd question, since regular expressions tend to deal with strings without worrying about the meaning of their content. Most of the time it turns out the ... http://arpad.co.uk/2009/03/numeric-ranges-in-regex/ Playing golf with PHP One of my geekiest hobbies is playing golf. Not the 18 holes of weathered drudgery kind, but the 18 hours of staring at the same 2 lines of code kind. If you still don't know what I'm talking about, the aim of the game is solve a given problem in ... http://arpad.co.uk/2008/09/playing-golf-with-php/ Splitting a string into quoted and unquoted sections http://arpad.co.uk/2008/09/splitting-a-string-into-quoted-and-unquoted-sections/ Function to readable http://arpad.co.uk/2008/09/function-to-readable/ Linear to nested array Output Array ( [a] => Array ( [b] => Array ( ... http://arpad.co.uk/2008/09/linear-to-nested-array/ Removing duplicate characters http://arpad.co.uk/2008/09/removing-duplicate-characters/ The adventure of PHP and the magic quotes Back in PHP 2, the "magic quotes" setting seemed like a great idea. It would automatically escape all of your input so you didn't have to worry about those pesky SQL injections. Any dodgy characters entered by the user would be automatically escaped by a backslash. Like register_globals, it helped lower ... http://arpad.co.uk/2008/09/the-adventure-of-php-and-the-magic-quotes/ Random string Example Output Default:shAjlw8 characters, A-F0-9:9A181CE76 characters, a-z, unique:fgkqswSimple:RsxWZj http://arpad.co.uk/2008/09/random-string/ preg_expand Example: Output: Alphabet: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Hexadecimal: 0123456789ABCDEF http://arpad.co.uk/2008/09/preg_expand/ secondsh Example Output Default00 seconds11 second3030 seconds601 minute359959 minutes, 59 seconds36001 hour1000001 day, 3 hours, 46 minutes, 40 seconds24192004 weeks25000004 weeks, 22 hours, 26 minutes, 40 seconds55555555517 years, 7 months, 1 week, 20 hours, 39 minutes, 9 secondsLimit 200 seconds11 second3030 seconds601 minute359959 minutes, 59 seconds36001 hour1000001 day, 3 hours24192004 weeks25000004 ... http://arpad.co.uk/2008/09/secondshfoobar/