PHP: Handle comma separated input

By on February 21, 2012 in PHP

A quick example of how to handle comma separated input from a POST variable in PHP. The code below will turn your POST variable into an array containing the user’s input which you can further validate or store in a database. This is useful for letting users add tags to items on your website. $tagsString [...]

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iOS tip: Center UILabel in tableFooterView

By on February 6, 2012 in iPhone

If you’re building an app that supports portrait and landscape you will probably run into an issue with keeping things centered after device rotation. Below is a quick example of adding a UILabel to a UITableView’s footer and keeping it centered regardless of device rotation. The trick is to use autoresizingMask which does all the [...]

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SDWebImage fixed width cell images

By on November 20, 2011 in iPhone

While looking for a easy solution to load uitableview images remotely, I came across a great library called SDWebImage. It’s very simple to use and provides a lot of flexibility for loading and caching images in your iOS project. As I started to use it, I ran into a issue when loading inconsistant thumbnail image [...]

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JQuery: Sorting JSON results

By on November 7, 2011 in JavaScript, JQuery

This is a follow up to a previous post on sorting elements using JQuery. A few people messaged me asking how to modify the code to sort JSON results from a ajax request so here it goes. The JSON (json.php): [{"id":600385,"name":"Featured Titles","url": "http://www.example.com"}, {"id":562680,"parentId":567182,"name":"Business","url": "http://www.example.com"}, {"id":562677,"parentId":567186,"name":"Other Misc.","url": "http://www.example.com"}, {"id":562664,"parentId":567186,"name":"News \u0026 History","url": "http://www.example.com"}, {"id":562678,"parentId":567186,"name":"Men\u0027s General","url": "http://www.example.com"}, [...]

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Check image type in PHP

By on November 7, 2011 in PHP

Quick PHP tip: If you’re looking to determine the type of uploaded image you can use the following code: $type = exif_imagetype($_FILES['uploaded_image']['tmp_name']); if ($type == 1 || $type == 2 || $type == 3) { //image type is jpg, gif or png } The code above shows a snippet to check if the uploaded image [...]

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