<?php
 function print_nice($elem,$max_level=10,$print_nice_stack=array()){
 if(is_array($elem) || is_object($elem)){
 if(in_array(&$elem,$print_nice_stack,true)){
 echo "<font color=red>RECURSION</font>";
 return;
 }
 $print_nice_stack[]=&$elem;
 if($max_level<1){
 echo "<font color=red>nivel maximo alcanzado</font>";
 return;
 }
 $max_level--;
 echo "<table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 width=100%>";
 if(is_array($elem)){
 echo '<tr><td colspan=2  style="background-color:#333333;"><strong><font  color=white>ARRAY</font></strong></td></tr>';
 }else{
 echo '<tr><td colspan=2 style="background-color:#333333;"><strong>';
 echo '<font color=white>OBJECT Type: '.get_class($elem).'</font></strong></td></tr>';
 }
 $color=0;
 foreach($elem as $k => $v){
 if($max_level%2){
 $rgb=($color++%2)?"#888888":"#BBBBBB";
 }else{
 $rgb=($color++%2)?"#8888BB":"#BBBBFF";
 }
 echo '<tr><td valign="top" style="width:40px;background-color:'.$rgb.';">';
 echo '<strong>'.$k."</strong></td><td>";
 print_nice($v,$max_level,$print_nice_stack);
 echo "</td></tr>";
 }
 echo "</table>";
 return;
 }
 if($elem === null){
 echo "<font color=green>NULL</font>";
 }elseif($elem === 0){
 echo "0";
 }elseif($elem === true){
 echo "<font color=green>TRUE</font>";
 }elseif($elem === false){
 echo "<font color=green>FALSE</font>";
 }elseif($elem === ""){
 echo "<font color=green>EMPTY STRING</font>";
 }else{
 echo str_replace("\n","<strong><font color=red>*</font></strong><br>\n",$elem);
 }
 }
 ?>

SimpleImage.php

A quick example usage to show how simple it is…

include('SimpleImage.php');
$image = new SimpleImage();
$image->load('picture.jpg');
$image->resize(250,400);
$image->save('picture2.jpg');
The last time I had to do some image resizing with PHP was a number of years ago and I seem to remember it being a lot more complicated than this.

Thanks to White Hat Web Design for making this little class and making it available.

I came across this link which has a nice little example of a regex to achieve a good validation.

Below is a copy and paste of building the regex string from that site with brief explanations of what each part achieves.

// SCHEME
$urlregex = "^(https?|ftp)\:\/\/";

// USER AND PASS (optional)
$urlregex .= "([a-z0-9+!*(),;?&=\$_.-]+(\:[a-z0-9+!*(),;?&=\$_.-]+)?@)?";
// HOSTNAME OR IP
$urlregex .= "[a-z0-9+\$_-]+(\.[a-z0-9+\$_-]+)*";
// PORT (optional)
$urlregex .= "(\:[0-9]{2,5})?";
// PATH (optional)
$urlregex .= "(\/([a-z0-9+\$_-]\.?)+)*\/?";// GET Query (optional)
$urlregex .= "(\?[a-z+&\$_.-][a-z0-9;:@/&%=+\$_.-]*)?";// ANCHOR (optional)
$urlregex .= "(#[a-z_.-][a-z0-9+\$_.-]*)?\$";
This builds a nice regex string which can be used with the eregi() function to validate a url string like so:

if (eregi($urlregex, $url))
{
echo "URL Valid";
}
else
{
echo "URL Invalid";
}
This regex will validate nearly all valid url’s and is handy to have knocking about.

Thanks to the original author, whoever that may be…..

A lot of information I found said to use a ‘SELECT MAX…’. This would work fine as long as nothing gets deleted from the end of the database. I ended up finding a nice blog entry here that explains exactly how to do it. The following code snippet taken from the site above shows how to get the next value.

$tablename = "tablename";
$next_increment = 0;
$qShowStatus = "SHOW TABLE STATUS LIKE '$tablename'";
$qShowStatusResult = mysql_query($qShowStatus);

echo "next increment number: [$next_increment]";
?>

Quite a useful piece of info…

I went on over to google and started searching to see if I could find any nice libraries that would make the job a little simpler and came across xajax.

This is a really nice PHP toolkit that enables you to add ajax functionality into your web pages extremely easily. All you have to do is include the xajax libraries, create a new xajax object, register a function with the xajax object and include a call to the xajax registered function in your html form, on a button click for example.

Once inside the xajax function you can perform any processing you wish and then return a bunch of html code to be placed inside a container (a div for example) on the calling page.

There are some great little tutorials on the xajax homepage to get you started on your way to lovely ajax enabled web pages.

/*
* Convert MySql timestamp to unix timestamp
*/
function ts2unix($ts)
{
$year = substr($ts,0,4);
$month = substr($ts,4,2);
$day = substr($ts,6,2);
$hour = substr($ts,8,2);
$minute = substr($ts,10,2);
$second = substr($ts,12,2);
$uts = mktime($hour,$minute,$second,$month,$day,$year);
return ($uts);
}

This class enables many different types of feeds to be created and is extremely simple to use so thanks to Kai Blankenhorn for this I’m sure I will be using it again in the future.