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.

Coding | Note to self

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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Getting current screen (page) without $_GET[‘page’];
Byemino Tuesday April 7th, 2015Saturday June 6th, 2015

$get_current_page = str_replace(‘_page_’,”,strstr( current_filter(), ‘_page_’,false) ) ; // then you can do: <form method=”post” action=”<?php echo add_query_arg(array(‘page’ => $cph), admin_url().’admin.php’ )?>”>

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Empty string passed to getElementById() bootstrap dropdown menu
Byemino Wednesday September 6th, 2017Wednesday September 6th, 2017

Just use javascript:void(0) instead of # for href You might encounter this error most likely in Firefox Console

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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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Coding

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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