Auteur/autrice : Salagir

BBcode is the syntax used in phpBB forums and some other websites with edit forms, due to it’s simple and intuitive syntax, opposed to that stupid wiki code no one ever gets. If, like me, you ever wanted to post the content of an html page, this Perl script is for you. It takes a…

Ok, it’s not really a bar. Draw something, being careful of the width of your command-line terminal, is tricky. But, you’ll get the display of the percentage of progress of the script and the time that is probably remaining. Example. You have a script doing 20,000 times about the same thing. You want to know…

Be careful, this is the translation of two French articles and it’s long. Today we will be writing time in a way that is comfortable for a human reader. Who want to read, « Only 0h 00mn 18s left » at the end of a count that began an hour ago? Before, strftime() was enough. Now, time…

This is a short, non-interesting article about a translation system. Nothing new or original here. I put here because my next article will use it and it’ll be a very long one. I a few month, I’m gonna talk a lot about translation. I’ve made many things about it, especially for automatic translations. Here, it’s…

This is not the only solution to know if your website got dead links. For example, Awstats will tell you them too, but only from on site at the time. Also, online dead link finders are you friends, like W3C Link Checker. My solution works directly on the server, and also find the errors that…

Url rewriting, is to have a link to a webpage that a human can read, and a search engine can interpret as keywords. Many blogs use this, they use the title of the post in the url. Example : Good: http://toto.com/articles/eat-creme-brulee.html Bad: http://toto.com/2007/article.php?id=684 You english reader may not care about this, but the main problem…

Even in PHP 5, this old security params is activated by default, and I hate it. It’s Magic Quote. When this flag is On, then vars in cookies, from a form or a url, are automatically « escaped ». It means that backslashes are added before some special characters. Primary: the simple quote. Example : my script…