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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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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WP nav menu disappears on category page
Byemino Thursday February 6th, 2014Saturday June 6th, 2015

My navigation menu started disappearing on category pages. First I suspected there was something with the header or menu location, I have double, triple checked everything and I was pulling my hair out trying to find a solution. Turns out, my attempt to order posts by a custom field interfered with the menu. if( ! $query->is_main_query())…

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Detecting the ‘crazy’ letters
Byemino Thursday January 16th, 2014Saturday June 6th, 2015

It’s always a pain to work with multibyte characters; most fonts only support ISO-8859-1 English letters. I was working with Imagemagick but some of the strings contained Arabic, Chinese, Russian letters, even some Chinese / Korean, and i did not want to end up with ???’s instead of non-supported characters all over the place. The…

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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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Türkçe karakter sayım problemleri
Byemino Tuesday December 10th, 2013Saturday June 6th, 2015

Türkçe veya diğer özel -multibyte- karakterler için malesef PHP str_word_count(), strlen() gibi fonksiyonlarda yanlış sayım veriyor, her özel karakter 2 kelime / karakter sayılıyor. Bunu aşmak için iconv() transliteration da denedim ama kâr etmedi. Araştırmalarımda da tek -garanti- çözümün şüpheli karakterleri replace etmek olduğunu buldum ama her Türkçe karakteri (ve muhtemel diğer yabancı karakterleri) hardcode…

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How to get random tags in wordpress
Byemino Monday December 16th, 2013Saturday June 6th, 2015

I needed a placeholder for tags input but it’s boring to display the same tags every time. But unlike posts, WP doesnt have “rand” orderby paramater. So what you can do; is to get a #no of tags and shuffle them. So basically what we do is: Check if we have a recent transient If…

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