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If we want to create a quick gallery of files/pictures, it is quite a pain to do so manually. And since this is some code I’m always reusing I thought I might share it here with everyone else: Let’s suppose we are in the base directory (www.mysite.com/gallery.php) and the pictures are in a folder named [...]
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It’s common to have a website designed for one country (For example Spain or the UK) and have it in a server elsewhere (In the US for example). You will notice that sometimes when displaying a date this way, it shows the local time at the server! Instead of manually correcting this time difference there [...]
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Ok your website has grown. You want it in different languages but let’s face it, it is a challenging task. I have worked on the process of translating several websites, ground up, and it really isn’t hard. It is just quite boring, but easy after all. My preferred method is by using PHP’s built in [...]
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When you allow users to comment and post stuff to your website, it is interesting and useful allowing them to post links and other stuff. But how can we do so easily? Surely there is BBCode, phpBB, allowing only some HTML tags… etc but how easy is this approach for the end user? Of course [...]
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If you ever wanted to calculate someone’s age in PHP from a birth timestamp, you must take into account that the age is more than the number of years, since days and months are also important, so I wrote a simple function that will return the exact age for a given timestamp: function getAge($birth){ [...]
Continue Reading →I am Alex, a software and communications engeneering student. I currently live in the north of Spain.
For the past years I have been working on software and application development, as well as sharing tips and tricks I find useful.