Today in creating an application to parse through many RSS feeds I needed a quick function to convert RSS publish date to a valid MYSQL datetime string. A quick Google search revealed 2 things: There was not a copy and paste function readily available There were many unanswered posts asking for such a function So I thought I would take a few minutes out of my afternoon to put together a quick solution. The code: [...]
There has been many times I have implemented WYSIWYG editors on my clients website only to have proprietary MS tags and code ruin the layout. I have been using this block of code for quite some time with pretty good success. It could use a bit more testing and I am sure there are additional characters or regular expression rules that could really button it up. If you find a way to improve upon this [...]
I have found that truncating a string by it length is not always an elegant solution. To give your site a more polished look try truncating by whole words instead. So instead of getting something like: “This is my awesome paragraph. It is really long and I am making it shor… read more” You will get: “This is my awesome paragraph. It is really long and I am making it shorter… read more”