PHP – Return first n words from a string

Do you ever find yourself needing to shorten a string in PHP? Maybe return the first 25 words of a long story? Give this routine a try. It will return the first n words from a string, or the entire string if it is less than n words long.

nextSaturday and lastSunday functions for PHP

I needed a way to find the first second of a week and the last second of a week based on a Unix timestamp.
Credit for the previous Sunday goes to Shaun who posted a way to find it on the PHP site for strftime, although I changed his code a little because I'm more comfortable [...]

How to add a timer to Eventum

I've been using Eventum for a while to keep track of bugs in a web application of mine. There was one feature missing that I really needed, and which made me switch to dotProject for a few months and that was a timer. When I'm working on a bug I wanted a way [...]

Prototype returning status code 0 in Opera

Seems like browsers don't handle Ajax calls returning a 204 no content status code very well. I've had issues with IE7 gets a 1223 status code instead of the 204. Well, it looks like Opera, at least 9.5.1, gets 0 as the status code.
I'm using Prototype version 1.6.0.3 to handle the Ajax [...]

Holiday Cheer on Forums

Seems like Google has made it popular to change the logo of a website for holidays. 
My question is how many of y’all do the same, and more importantly do your members like it? 
Over on my photography forum I switched out the default logo with a winter themed one for Christmas.  It’s scheduled to [...]