Pretty Printing for PHP

Cryptography Challenge

24/07/2007

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Parsing an HTML Table with PEAR’s XML_HTMLSax3

20/07/2007

By Toby Inkster

Here’s an example of how to parse an HTML table into an array using the PEAR module XML_HTMLSax3. It supports the , and elements and the rowspan and colspan attributes. It’s worth noting that this code will raise a bunch of notices if you run it displaying all errors. This is pretty difficult to avoid, … Continued

PHP Domain Class

19/07/2007

By Toby Inkster

On Usenet an often-asked question is how to programmatically determine the “domain” of a particular hostname. That is, excluding the components traditionally thought of as subdomains. As an example, groups.google.com and www.google.com both have a domain of google.com. Invariably, one answer comes back stating that you just need to chop off everything from the front, … Continued

PHP Linkifier

18/07/2007

By Toby Inkster

Here’s a nifty bit of code I wrote a while back (utilising a function from PHP SmartyPants) that takes a bunch of HTML, searches it for some word or phrase that you specify, and turns all occurances of it into a link, unless it’s already a link!

PHP vs Perl

17/07/2007

By Toby Inkster

Here's a simple program which calculates, to eight decimal places, the value of the Golden Ratio φ implemented in both PHP and Perl, to demonstrate their similarities. Perl #!/usr/bin/perl $a = 1; $b = 1; $c = undef; $psi_old = undef; print “Approximating psi…\n”; while (1) { $psi = sprintf(‘%.08f’, $b/$a); last if ($psi_old eq … Continued