My name is Aidan Lister. I am a professional web developer working primarily with PHP. I am an author of the PHP documentation, and a PEAR developer.

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Recursively creating directory structures

Posted on April 5th, 2004 in Code Repository | 17 Comments »

mkdirr allows you to create whole directory trees independent of what folders exist in the path.

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Quick JavaScript email obfuscation

Posted on April 5th, 2004 in Code Repository | 7 Comments »

mail_obfuscate allows you to quickly obfuscate an email address in JavaScript to prevent spambots harvesting the address.

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Viewing binary data as a hexdump in PHP

Posted on April 5th, 2004 in Code Repository | 14 Comments »

hexdump() allows you to dump a binary data stream into a human-friendly format.

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Recursively deleting directories via FTP

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

ftp_rmdirr() allows the deletion of whole directory trees on remote servers via FTP.

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