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@sepehr
sepehr / valid_email.php
Last active August 30, 2019 07:57
PHP: Email Validation (RFC 2822)
/**
* Verifies the syntax of the given e-mail address.
*
* See RFC 2822 for details.
*
* @param $mail
* A string containing an e-mail address.
*
* @return
* 1 if the email address is valid, 0 if it is invalid or empty, and FALSE if
@sgmurphy
sgmurphy / url_slug.php
Created July 12, 2012 15:52
URL Slugs in PHP (with UTF-8 and Transliteration Support)
<?php
/**
* Create a web friendly URL slug from a string.
*
* Although supported, transliteration is discouraged because
* 1) most web browsers support UTF-8 characters in URLs
* 2) transliteration causes a loss of information
*
* @author Sean Murphy <[email protected]>
* @copyright Copyright 2012 Sean Murphy. All rights reserved.
@jordelver
jordelver / gist:3073101
Created July 8, 2012 22:06
Set the Mac OS X SOCKS proxy on the command line

Set the Mac OS X SOCKS proxy on the command line

a.k.a. what to do when your ISP starts blocking sites :(

Set the SOCKS proxy to local SSH tunnel

networksetup -setsocksfirewallproxy "Ethernet" localhost 8080

To clear the domain and port

@wadey
wadey / twitter-entities.js
Created June 17, 2010 17:50
JavaScript parser for Tweet Entities
/*
* twitter-entities.js
* This function converts a tweet with "entity" metadata
* from plain text to linkified HTML.
*
* See the documentation here: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_entities
* Basically, add ?include_entities=true to your timeline call
*
* Copyright 2010, Wade Simmons
* Licensed under the MIT license