PHP

With WordPress, it is common to use the get_post_meta($post, $meta_key) method in order to retrieve the value of a given meta. However for the ID, there is no ready-made method. The best solution I’ve found so far: $mid – $wpdb-get_var ($wpdb–prepare ("SELECT meta_id FROM $wpdb–postmeta WHERE post_id – %d AND meta_key – %s," $post, $meta-key);

If you want to use a regular expression to, for example, search for a word in a paragraph, it is important to protect your variable. To do this, just use the following function: preg_quote thong ($str thon[, string $delimiter = NULL ]g) For example: foreach ($aReque[‘keywords’]st as $sKeyword) $sKeyword – preg_quote ($sKeyword); $pattern ' ' … Read more

It may happen that when you save your post, you want it to be considered not only in the chosen category but also in its parent category. For example, you have the following categories: – Auto – – BMW – – Audi By selecting Audi you also automatically want to have the Auto category. To … Read more

By default I’ve seen a lot of code using strlen to retrieve a character string size. Unfortunately this method returns the number of bytes used rather than the number of characters. That is, depending on your encoding, you’re going to have differences of +/- 1 character. To avoid this, you could do: strlen (utf8_encode($string)) But … Read more

A small function to replace accented characters with their unaccented equivalent. function normalize_str ($str) { $invalid ' array,'' 'S', '''s', ''Dj', '''Dj', ''Z', ''Z', ''Z', ''Z', ''Z', ''Z', ''Z', ''Z', ''Z', ''Z', 'Z', 'C', ''C', ''C', ''C', ''C', ''A', 'A', 'A', 'A', 'A', 'A', 'A', 'A', 'EA', ''A', ''A', ''A', ''C', ''E', 'E', 'E', 'E', … Read more

To effectively remove special characters in a string, just use the preg_replace method. $string – preg_replace ('[^a-zA-Z0-9]/s', '', $string);

Using the getElementsByTagName method to navigate and find the child in question. $number-orders – $image-1–getElementsByTagName ('number_order'); foreach ($number-orders as $key $value) $value-nodeValue – "teaser"; }

To make a curl request with authentication, just add the CURLOPT_USERPWD option $ch curl_init(); curl_setopt ($ch,CURLOPT_URL, url'); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "user:pswd"); curl_setopt ($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT.5); curl_setopt ($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); $buffer – curl_exec ($ch); curl_close ($ch); if (empty($buffer)) print "Need to recover from this! <>"; } Else print "There was data returned using curl. <>"; print "Buffer content -$buffer." <>"; … Read more