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Checking if string contains numbers

Byemino Sunday December 1st, 2013Saturday June 6th, 2015

is_numeric doesnt check strings for numbers. You need to use preg_match('#[0-9]#',$string)

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Page template pagination fix
Byemino Friday February 7th, 2014Saturday June 6th, 2015

If you are using “page-template”s you’ll have problems with pagination since pages are not meant to display posts and some people frown upon using page-templates for custom archive display, but it’s sometimes the simplest way. Anyway the solution is 1.) to nullify the global $wpquery 2.) adding ‘paged’ => $paged arg. before displaying your posts…

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bootstrap offcanvas double scrollbar bug fix
Byemino Saturday June 6th, 2015Saturday June 6th, 2015

When your content area is smallar then your offcanvas menu you’ll get double-rainbowed. To prevent this simply remove either body | html from the following rule in offcanvas.css /* * Style tweaks * ————————————————– */ html, body { overflow-x: hidden; /* Prevent scroll on narrow devices */ } so that it reads: body { overflow-x:…

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Loading an array from file into a variable
Byemino Monday August 10th, 2015Monday August 10th, 2015

Ways to load an array from file into a variable: 1- $var = require ‘myarray.php’; // or include // myarray.php contents return array(“test”,”test2″); 2 – require ‘myarray.php’; // or include // myarray.php contents $var = array(“test”,”test2″); Use $var as you would normally. 3- $var = file_get_contents(‘myarray.php’); // myarray.php contents array(“test”,”test2″);

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Local timestamp problem
Byemino Tuesday December 10th, 2013Saturday June 6th, 2015

Always check for local time Despite the fact that my server timezone was set correctly, somehow time() was giving wrong ( UTC) hour. So i ended up using wp’s functions to make sure. $now = current_time( ‘timestamp’, 0 ) ;$local_ts = get_the_time(‘U’,$post->ID);

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Lol what a surprise..
Byemino Wednesday December 11th, 2013Saturday June 6th, 2015

I’ve been pulling my hair why my custom cursor wouldnt work. Turns out, IE (yes, big surprise) takes site url instead of stylesheet as baseurl when it comes to cursors.

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Problems with multibyte characters
Byemino Tuesday December 10th, 2013Saturday June 6th, 2015

There are mb_strlen() and mb_substr() for multibyte characters however there is no mb_str_word_count. Hence my previous post.

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