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On several WordPress projects I've needed to get the value of a custom field.  Not too difficult using the get_post_meta command, but I wanted a little quicker way.  So I now add this little function to the functions.php file on themes I'm working on. PLAIN TEXT PHP: function getMeta($key) { global $post; return get_post_meta($post->ID, $key); [...]

If you do much JavaScript coding and have FireBug odds are good you know that you can call console.info() to output to the FireBug console. But what happens if you leave your console.info() call in your code and a visitor looks with IE? It'll throw an error. So here's a quick, little function that will [...]

A couple quick little functions for when you need to know if you're running on Apache or IIS. PLAIN TEXT 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 [...]

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. PLAIN TEXT PHP: $array = array_map('trim', $array); array_map [...]