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apphp-snippets / gist:2759498

Created May 20, 2012 20:54

Sometimes you need to generate passwords for customers automatically when a new account is created. This code allows you choose the desired length and strength for the password and it is very flexible

	<?php
	/* Source: http://www.apphp.com/index.php?snippet=php-get-remote-ip-address */
	function GeneratePassword($length=8, $strength=0){
	$vowels = 'aeuy';
	$consonants = 'bdghjmnpqrstvz';
	if($strength >= 1) $consonants .= 'BDGHJLMNPQRSTVWXZ';
	if($strength >= 2) $vowels .= 'AEUY';
	if($strength >= 3) $consonants .= '12345';
	if($strength >= 4) $consonants .= '67890';
	if($strength >= 5) $vowels .= '@#$%';

apphp-snippets / gist:2759502

Created May 20, 2012 20:55

You may retrieve all needed file path data using PHP's built-in function pathinfo. You don't need to create your own functions or use regular expressions to get this info. It was already been created for this purpose

	<?php
	/* Source: http://www.apphp.com/index.php?snippet=php-get-remote-ip-address */
	// pathinfo() constants parameter list
	// PATHINFO_DIRNAME => directory name
	// PATHINFO_BASENAME => name of file (w/out extension)
	// PATHINFO_EXTENSION => file extension
	// PATHINFO_FILENAME => file name w/ extension

	$path = '/images/thumbs/my_avatar.gif';

apphp-snippets / gist:2759504

Created May 20, 2012 20:55

This function returns the duration of the given time period in days, hours, minutes and seconds. For example: echo convertSecToStr('654321'); would return "7 days, 13 hours, 45 minutes, 21 seconds"

	<?php
	/* Source: http://www.apphp.com/index.php?snippet=php-get-remote-ip-address */
	function convertSecToStr($secs){
	$output = '';
	if($secs >= 86400) {
	$days = floor($secs/86400);
	$secs = $secs%86400;
	$output = $days.' day';
	if($days != 1) $output .= 's';
	if($secs > 0) $output .= ', ';

apphp-snippets / gist:2770224

Created May 22, 2012 16:54

You may create a back button like your browser has. The following script allows the visitor to press a button and returns the him to the previous page.

	<form>
	/* Source: http://www.apphp.com/index.php?snippet=php-get-remote-ip-address */
	<input type="button" value="Previous Page" onclick="history.go(-1)">
	</form>

apphp-snippets / gist:2770245

Created May 22, 2012 16:57

Sometimes you have some information on your page and your visitors might want to copy it. The easiest way is to provide a mechanism that allows them to simply click a button to do so. You have to paste this code into the head of your web page

	<script language="javascript">
	/* Source: http://www.apphp.com/index.php?snippet=php-get-remote-ip-address */
	function CopyText(el){

	var selectedText = "";
	if(window.getSelection){

	selectedText = window.getSelection();

	}else if (document.getSelection){

apphp-snippets / gist:2770263

Created May 22, 2012 16:59

You can use JavaScript window.location to redirect a visitor to a required page. You may have seen this feature used by sites with full page ads, or to redirect visitors to the site's new domain name. You can add also a timer to the script that will allow

	<script type="text/javascript">
	/* Source: http://www.apphp.com/index.php?snippet=php-get-remote-ip-address */
	var count = 6;
	var redirect = "http://www.apphp.com";
	function countDown(){
	var timer = document.getElementById("timer");
	if(count > 0){
	count--;
	timer.innerHTML = "This page will redirect in "+count+" seconds.";
	setTimeout("countDown()", 1000);

apphp-snippets / gist:2770274

Created May 22, 2012 17:01

Most today's web browsers like Firefox (Ctrl+D), Opera (Ctrl+T) and IE (Ctrl+D) provide a keyboard shortcuts to enable users bookmark their favorite pages. But if you want to provide your visitors with a "Bookmark this page" link they can click you may us

	<script type="text/javascript">
	/* Source: http://www.apphp.com/index.php?snippet=php-get-remote-ip-address */
	function CreateBookmarkLink(){
	var title = document.title;
	var url = document.location.href;
	if(window.sidebar){
	/* Mozilla Firefox Bookmark */
	window.sidebar.addPanel(title, url, "");
	}else if(window.external){
	/* IE Favorite */

apphp-snippets / gist:2770287

Created May 22, 2012 17:02

You may add rounded corners to your CSS3-based elements, like a border or button. You can change the radius to increase or decrease the rounding of the corners. This is a styles definition rounding of each corner, it lets you individually round each of th

	<style type="text/css">
	/* Source: http://www.apphp.com/index.php?snippet=php-get-remote-ip-address */
	.round{
	border:1px solid #c1c13a;
	-moz-border-radius: 10px;
	-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
	border-radius: 10px; /* future proofing */
	-khtml-border-radius: 10px; /* for old Konqueror browsers */
	}
	</style>

apphp-snippets / gist:2770294

Created May 22, 2012 17:03

Sometimes it's desirable to change a style of the first and/or last elements in a container. You can do this by manually applying classes to your HTML elements: ("last-child" still not supported in IE8).

	<style type="text/css">
	/* Source: http://www.apphp.com/index.php?snippet=php-get-remote-ip-address */
	p.first { margin-top: 0 !important; margin-left: 0 !important; }

	p.last { margin-bottom: 0 !important; margin-right: 0 !important; }
	/* or */
	div#articles p:first-child { border:1px solid #c1c13a; }
	div#articles p:last-child { border:1px solid #3ac13a; }
	/* or */
	div#articles > :first-child { text-align:left; }

apphp-snippets / gist:4013426

Created November 4, 2012 20:06

This code allows to pass filename in the $file_name variable and function will return file extension only.

	<?php
	/* Source: http://www.apphp.com/index.php?snippet=php-get-file-extension */
	function get_file_extension($file_name)
	{
	/* may contain multiple dots */
	$string_parts = explode('.', $file_name);
	$extension = $string_parts[count($string_parts) - 1];
	$extension = strtolower($extension);
	return $extension;
	}

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