PHP
Zebra tables
Last week I was checking out the code of an open source project that used 10 lines of code just to generate a “odd” / “even” string to use as the html class for a table row. This is how I do it in one line: <?php for($i=0;$i<10;$i++) { $row = (!isset($row) || $row===’even’)?’odd’:'even’; //line [...]
Caching an array to disk
I discovered the var_export function in PHP about a year ago. It is able to return a string that represents the passed variable. The returned string is parsable by PHP. One way to use this function would be to cache an array to a file. In example: export.php <?php //will write the array to disk [...]
Htmlpurifier and the CodeIgniter framework
Intro HtmlPurifier is a standards-compliant HTML filter library written in PHP. HTML Purifier will not only remove all malicious code (better known as XSS) with a thoroughly audited, secure yet permissive whitelist, it will also make sure your documents are standards compliant. Although Codeigniter comes with it’s own XSS filtering method $this->input->xss_clean() I prefer the [...]
Zend Certified Engineer
