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DaveChild / View Page Source.js

Created July 24, 2009 11:24

JavaScript function that will fetch the source of the page being viewed. Based, I think, on http://www.astral-consultancy.co.uk/cgi-bin/hunbug/doco.cgi?11340

	function viewSource() {
	var httpRequest;
	try {
	httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
	}catch(trymicrosoft) {
	try {
	httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
	} catch(oldermicrosoft) {
	try {
	httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");

DaveChild / gist:154015

Created July 24, 2009 11:27

Code will trim a string to a maximum length, and will not break sentences (will grab as many sentences from text as it can up to the maximum string length).

	<?php

	function trim_text_in_sentences($intLength, $strText) {
	$intLastPeriodPos = strpos(strrev(substr($strText, 0, $intLength)), '.');
	if ($intLastPeriodPos === false) {
	$strReturn = substr($strText, 0, $intLength);
	} else {
	$strReturn = substr($strText, 0, ($intLength - $intLastPeriodPos));
	}
	return $strReturn;

DaveChild / gist:154025

Created July 24, 2009 11:31

Generate a URL portion or alias from any text - uses alphanumeric characters and hyphens only.

	<?php

	function generate_url_from_text($strText) {
	$strText = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9-]/', ' ', $strText);
	$strText = preg_replace('/ +/', ' ', $strText);
	$strText = trim($strText);
	$strText = str_replace(' ', '-', $strText);
	$strText = preg_replace('/-+/', '-', $strText);
	$strText = strtolower($strText);
	return $strText;

DaveChild / gist:154029

Created July 24, 2009 11:33

Redirect all GET and HEAD requests to new domain (only redirecting GET and HEAD because POST, PUT, DELETE etc to old domain is almost certainly automated spam - no genuine users should ever be posting to old domain if it's been completely redirected). Ser

	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(GET\|HEAD) [NC] # Only rewrite GET requests
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} olddomain\.com [NC]
	RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

	RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} olddomain\.com [NC] # Otherwise block
	RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F]

DaveChild / SoftHyphens.php

Created December 3, 2010 14:15

PHP SoftHyphens Function

	<?php
	/*
	This function will add soft hyphens after every 3rd character in words of over 10 characters.
	*/
	public static function SoftHyphens($text) {
	$return = '';

	// Add spaces around HTML tag delimiters, to process them as individual words (to be removed later)
	$text = str_replace('>', '> ', $text);
	$text = str_replace('<', ' <', $text);

DaveChild / Querystrings.php

Created December 3, 2010 14:22

Add and remove querystring variables from URLs.

	<?php
	/*
	Add and remove querystring variables from URLs.
	*/
	function addQuerystringVar($url, $key, $value) {
	$url = preg_replace('/(.)(\?\|&)' . $key . '=[^&]+?(&)(.)/i', '$1$2$4', $url . '&');
	$url = substr($url, 0, -1);
	if (strpos($url, '?') === false) {
	return ($url . '?' . $key . '=' . $value);
	} else {

DaveChild / ean_check.php

Created November 23, 2011 10:45

PHP Function to Validate EANs

	<?php

	/*
	0346745008178
	Should fail - checksum should be 9

	5060096384137
	Should pass

	5020650002112

DaveChild / ReadableApi.vb

Created May 24, 2018 14:26

Readable.io API Example Code - VB.NET

	'=====================================================================
	' Readable.io REST Post Test
	' --------------------------
	' Basic asp.net (VB.Net) 4 page with textbox, label and submit button
	' Created: 25 May 2018
	' Author: humanotics.co.uk
	'=====================================================================

	Imports System.Net
	Imports System.Security.Cryptography

DaveChild / readable.py

Created May 24, 2018 15:24 — forked from lightstrike/readable.py

Readable.io API Python Wrapper

	import hashlib
	import time

	import requests


	class ReadableAPIClient:
	"""
	API Client for Readable.io, written for Python 3
	See API documentation: https://readable.io/api/docs/

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