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Creating a string exerpt elegantly

Posted on April 5th, 2004 in Code Repository | 6 Comments »

str_chop() provides a number of options for trimming long text into something suitable for display.

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Human readable file sizes

Posted on April 5th, 2004 in Code Repository | 15 Comments »

size_readable() converts a number of bytes into human readable form.

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Recursively deleting a folder in PHP

Posted on April 5th, 2004 in Code Repository | 101 Comments »

rmdirr() allows the deleting of a folder, along with the folders contents.

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Outputing a MySQL result in a HTML table

Posted on April 5th, 2004 in Code Repository | 10 Comments »

mysql_draw_table() outputs a MySQL result set as a HTML table.

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