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How to strip excess whitespace from a string with preg_replace()

By on August 7, 2009 in How To, PHP

PHP provides many pre-defined methods to deal with strings. One of the strong way to deal with strings is to use regular expressions aka ‘regex‘. Let’s use regular expression with preg_replace() method to strip excess whitespace from a string.

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How To Create Simple Cool Paging With PHP and CSS

By on July 29, 2009 in CSS, How To, PHP

It is quite common when you need of paging in your web application. A dynamic web is what consists of scripts and renders various pages depends upon the user requirements and where he/she wants to browse the web. Paging, categories, tags are all these type of browsing. We will talk about paging in this article [...]

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How to add smilies in comments text and blog posts with simple PHP function?

How to add smilies in comments text and blog posts with simple PHP function?

By on July 22, 2009 in How To, PHP

Smileys are great way of expressing emotions with images/icons. You cant think of chatting with your friends without smileys. Am I right? It’s been over 27 years when text smiley introduced also it’s been so long when smileys came out from IMs (Yahoo Messenger, Windows Messenger, etc) to comments on websites, blog posts. People use [...]

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How To Make Rounded Corners In Internet Explorer Without Images? [Experimental]

By on July 19, 2009 in CSS, How To

Have you ever missed the CSS3 features in IE? If you are a web designer or a Web developer, your answer should obviously be “YES”.  The very basic and popular CSS3 feature is to make rounded corners of DIVs and elements. Firefox, Safari, Chrome are now having full support to CSS3 but IE is still [...]

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