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- RSS parser with cache function
A script for caching and parsing RSS files using SimpleXML and php file functions - Dynamic radio group (HTML)
A php function to create a group of HTML radio elements - PHP URL / domain name splitter
Split with this snippet a full domain name into sub-domain, domain and tld - Custom error page / report
http error reporting script to report errors into the webmasters e-mail - Nested Select menu using "optgroup"
Create nested xhtml valid select menu with option groups on the fly - Directories filenames to database
A simple script to copy the filenames of a directory into a database table - Cross-Browser Session Starter
This handy function will start and update a cross-browser php session cookie - (Back) link checker - Demo
Use this function to heck if a link to a website in the code of an url really exists. - HTML head section, parse META data - Demo
Parse information from existing title and meta elements from a remote html document - Alternative colored rows - Demo
php code snippet to create alternative colored rows for mysql/array data inside the html - Database resultset navigation
Easy to use PHP function to create back- forward links for a result set - PHP Directories oldest file - Demo
A small php function to select the oldest file inside a specific directory. - Regular expression patterns - Demo
Samples of regular expression patterns to validate decimals, dutch postal code and an e-mail address - CSS style switcher
simple extensible CSS style sheet switcher using PHP sessions - Select menu with DB values
Function to create dynamically a select menu from a mysql database result set - PHP Nested Loop snippet - Demo
Database result set in a nested repeat region inside a html table (using mysql and php) - Long string protection - Demo
This function can handle long string with to much the same chars in a row - E-mail address validation
Advanced e-mail validation while checking DNS entries (mx records) - Parse Template Monster data - Demo
Simple script to obtain data from the template monster api and show a sample result - Dynamic form field
Simple text type input fields control in your (CMS) form - Daily (random) banner
This simple banner system will show a different banner each day.
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