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jamescridland / indefinite_article.php

Created February 21, 2011 23:01 — forked from samstarling/indefinite_article.php

A little bit of PHP to return "a" and "an" correctly.

	<?

	// Usage:
	echo "I have ".return_indefinitearticle("apple")." apple, and ".return_indefinitearticle("slice of bread")." slice of bread.";

	function return_indefinitearticle($thing) {
	return (preg_match('/^[aeiou]\|s\z/i', strtolower($thing))) ? "an" : "a";
	}

	?>

jamescridland / Amazon S3 expiry date

Created March 24, 2011 00:27

Here's what to set a good expiry date for Amazon S3 to...

	Sun, 17 Jan 2038 14:26:09 GMT

jamescridland / gist:1008014

Created June 4, 2011 16:01

Extracting phpBB private messages

	/* 1. Search in discussions_users for user, and remember their ID and email. */
	/* Here's the SQL query... */

	SELECT username AS from_user, FROM_UNIXTIME(`privmsgs_date`) AS sent, privmsgs_subject, privmsgs_text FROM `discussions_privmsgs` LEFT JOIN discussions_privmsgs_text on privmsgs_id=privmsgs_text_id LEFT JOIN discussions_users ON privmsgs_from_userid=user_id WHERE `privmsgs_to_userid` = 28861

	/... export this as PDF, then send it to user's ID./

	/* posts are */

	SELECT topic_title,post_subject,post_text,post_time FROM `discussions_posts` JOIN discussions_posts_text ON discussions_posts.post_id = discussions_posts_text.post_id JOIN discussions_topics ON discussions_topics.topic_id=discussions_posts.topic_id WHERE `poster_id` = 18852

jamescridland / stopit

Created April 9, 2012 17:44

Stop people nicking .png images from your server

	#put this bit in your .htaccess file

	RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?godalmingtownfc.co.uk.*$ [NC,OR]
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?mallulive.com.*$ [NC,OR]
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?allegro.pl.*$ [NC,OR]
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?lawiki.org.*$ [NC,OR]
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?pcworld.com.*$ [NC]
	ReWriteRule .*\.png$ - [F]

jamescridland / extract_info_from_googleplus.php

Last active December 29, 2015 07:59

This will scrape information from a Google+ page, if given a URL. The "followers" uses a class that doubtless will change; but you can hopefully see how it works.

	<?

	$url['url']='https://plus.google.com/107170242245169064947/posts';

	if (isset($url['url'])) {

	$d = new DOMDocument();
	@$d->loadHTML(file_get_contents($url['url']));
	$xpath = new DOMXPath($d);

jamescridland / gist:a0783283b90550046f87

Created September 15, 2015 18:10

The easiest EU cookie solution code ever?

	<!--
	Put this just under your <HEAD> in HTML.
	Note - it displays once, and once only.
	It requires you to run Google Analytics on your website.
	If a user deletes their cookies, it'll appear again.
	You can test it by going into Incognito Mode.
	-->


	<script type='text/javascript'>

jamescridland / private.xml

Last active September 14, 2016 06:37

Disable the bottom two buttons on a Logitech Presenter R700. Part of a piece at https://medium.com/@JamesCridland/disabling-logitech-r800-remote-buttons-for-keynote-5412c5ef2e88#.jkcf8n4t2

	<?xml version="1.0"?>
	<root>
	<devicevendordef>
	<vendorname>LOGITECH</vendorname>
	<vendorid>0x046d</vendorid>
	</devicevendordef>

	<deviceproductdef>
	<productname>LOGITECH_R800</productname>
	<productid>0xc538</productid>

jamescridland / ofcom.php

Created October 16, 2016 06:49

A quick check to see if Ofcom's txparams have updated themselves

	<?php

	// A small piece of code to check the Last-Modified header in PHP
	// The below currently (on 16 October) returns:
	// "Tue, 11 Oct 2016 11:26:59"
	// ... so that's when it was last updated.

	// I'm told that this URL is a permanent link. My assumption is that any update to the
	// DAB, FM or AM data will produce an update for this main file; even though my own code
	// actually just uses the .csv files.

jamescridland / example.php

Created November 9, 2017 14:20

	$re = '/[\].(gimlet)(.+?\n\n)/';
	$str = '* Google Play Music have [buttons for your podcasts](https://play.google.com/intl/en_us/badges-music/). Note, however, that outside the US, they just redirect to the front page of Google Play. One step forward, one step back.

	* Recommended: [ReplyAll investigates Facebook](https://gimletmedia.com/episode/109-facebook-spying/) using your phone\'s microphone to spy on your conversations. And, how to stop them doing it, even though they\'re not.

	* Event: on now in Austin TX, USA: [Media Tech Week](https://mediatechweek.live/)';

	preg_match($re, $str, $matches);
	var_dump($matches);

jamescridland / reports.php

Last active October 15, 2024 14:36

An additional API for Sendy, that offers a report for a specific sent campaign

	<?php include('../_connect.php');?>
	<?php include('../../includes/helpers/short.php');?>
	<?php
	/*
	---Little helper function from [email protected] for reporting
	Put this file in a new folder within the /api/ folder, called "reporting", and call it "reports.php". (Or whatever you like).
	Call by POST to api/reporting/reports.php with the following mandatory elements
	'api_key' => (your API key)
	'brand_id' => 1
	'label' => (the campaign name)

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