About a year ago I wrote a post on how to embed a YouTube video in a Simple Machines Forum post. Well, as it works out today I needed to embed a Google Video in a post so I went through and did almost the same process to get it to work.
A couple quick little functions for when you need to know if you're running on Apache or IIS.
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PHP:
function isApache()
{
return ((bool) preg_match('/Apache/i', $_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE']));
}
function isIIS()
{
return ((bool) preg_match('/IIS/i', $_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE']));
}
isApache() will return true if it's running on an Apache server and false if not. [...]
Several times I've had a user setting that was separated by commas that I needed to split out into an array. People, correctly, put a space after commas. But for the array the space shouldn't be there. Here's a quick tip to strip out those leading spaces.
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$array = array_map('trim', $array);
array_map [...]
WordPress is a insanely popular blogging platform, and with every release it gets better. It's also very easy to install, even for those who have never installed a CMS on their server before.
The first step is to head over to WordPress.org and download the WordPress file. Click on the Download button on the [...]
Reading through a post on SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS actually being slower that running one query followed by a count query I decided I needed to do a little benchmarking on my own.