Posts Categorized: Note to self

Problems with multibyte characters

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

Türkçe karakter sayım problemleri

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...

Local timestamp problem

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 mak...

Checking if string contains numbers

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