A few months ago I wrote a quick post showing how to parse JSONC (JSON with comments) files in JavaScript. Shortly thereafter I adapted the code to work in PHP as well: This function takes the same arguments that you can pass to the native json_decode() function. Besides removing JavaScript Read more…
If your codebase is in PHP and you would like user’s to be able to login to your site using GitHub (single sign-on) you can use the following as a good starting point: Next you will need to setup an OAuth application within GitHub by doing the following: Login to Read more…
Recently I was working on something that required inserting key-value pairs into an array after a specific key in PHP. As I was looking through stackoverflow answers I realized that there was no awesome answer that really jumped out at me. Therefore I decided to take a few minutes to Read more…
Today I was working on a personal project and wanted to be able to use a native PHP function to re-index a 2D array so that the key for each sub-array was pulled from a value in that sub-array. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find a way to simply do Read more…
In case you haven’t seen it before, issetor() is a quick and dirty way of getting a value from a variable that may or may not be defined: One unfortunate side-effect that most people are unaware of is that even though you can use this function without needing to worry Read more…
While working on YourJS.com I was trying to figure out a quick way to use extract() to only convert some of the $_REQUEST values to variables in the symbol table. Then I realized I could use this: Using this will give you a new array with only the specified keys: Read more…
Today I was looking for a way to easily pull in RSS feed data from Apple Trailers onto my site via AJAX. At first I was thinking about using jQuery to do it but then I got thinking about how cool it would be to have a PHP script that Read more…
Today I was writing some code in which I wanted to modify the values of an array within a for-loop. The obvious solution would be to use the key to modify the value but there is actually another way of doing it: The above code will actually go through the Read more…
Have you ever had a column text for which you wish you could easily create links? For example, let’s say that you have a column of search words (or phrases) that should link to the Google page for each search. How would you do it? First of all, you would Read more…
Something that you may not know about PHP and many other languages is that it provides heredoc syntax to build strings. What does this mean? Check out the following: The above puts the following into the $myCode variable as a string: You can use this syntax in many different languages: Read more…