Snipplr - DaveChild

(JavaScript) JavaScript Highlight Inline Styles

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:07:30 GMT

Puts a red border around anything with an inline style. Prefix with "javascript:" and paste into the address bar to run on a page directly, or run with a load event.

(PHP) PHP SoftHyphens Function

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:56:20 GMT

This function will add soft hyphens after every 3rd character in words of over 10 characters. It will not leave fewer than three characters following a soft hyphen. Known bugs: Adds soft hyphens to URLs and within HTML tags.

(JavaScript) JavaScript View Page Source

Mon, 11 May 2009 08:46:28 GMT

(PHP) MODx Snippet: Tweet This

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:40:18 GMT

This snippet returns a link to twitter for the user to tweet the current page. URL is TinyURLed automatically (and tinyurls are cached indefinitely in assets/cache/tweetthis.txt). Simply paste code into a new snippet called "TweetThis". Call it like so: [[TweetThis? &name=\`@DaveChild\` &text=\`Tweet This!\` &id=\`7\` ]] All parameters are optional. ID defaults to current document.

(JavaScript) JavaScript Apply Max-Width (in Pixels) in IE

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:46:57 GMT

(PHP) PHP Strip Signature from Email

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:42:09 GMT

If reading email from a POP box with PHP, you can use this to strip out signatures (ones that are delimited with the proper '--' notation). It will only strip the last signature of an email, in case someone enters a '--' intentionally elsewhere.

(PHP) PHP Get First Characters of String in Complete Sentences

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:33:26 GMT

Pass in text and the maximum allowable length and this snippet will return as many full sentences from the text as it can within that length. If no sentences, it will just trim to the maximum length allowed.

(PHP) PHP Generate URL From Text

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:29:13 GMT

Function replaces all non-alpha-numeric chars and cleans up a text string. Should output a usable URL for almost all text.

(PHP) PHP Singleton Class

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:27:16 GMT

Not extensively tested but should work just fine!

(JavaScript) JavaScript Minimum Font Size

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:20:39 GMT

Run on document load - script checks fonts are not too small and resizes to 10pt if they are.

(Apache) mod_rewrite Redirect Domain (Only GET + HEAD)

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:11:20 GMT

Redirect all GET and HEAD requests to new domain (only redirecting GET and HEAD because POST, PUT, DELETE etc to old domain is almost certainly automated spam - no genuine users should ever be posting to old domain if it's been completely redirected). Serve 403 to any other request.

(SQL) SQL Delete Table if Exists

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:59:07 GMT

(SQL) SQL Write Disk Space to Table

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:58:32 GMT

This will run a bat file to get free space on a drive and write the results to a table. Use script at http://snipplr.com/view/8331/calculate-free-space-on-drive/ as FreeSpace.bat

(SQL) SQL Run Sanity Checks SP

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:52:59 GMT

Finds and runs all views that start with "sanity\_check". Writes number of rows returned by each view to sanity\_check\_results table for use later. Includes SQL to generate results table.

(SQL) SQL Obfuscate Credit Card Number

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:42:31 GMT

All but last 4 digits turned to *

(SQL) SQL Shrink Transaction Log

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:38:35 GMT

(SQL) SQL Rebuild Dev Database

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:37:01 GMT

This script should be run from the "master" database. It will destroy the dev copy of a database and restore from the live copy. Code slightly modified from original (linked).

(DOS Batch) DOS List Items in Directory

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:32:04 GMT

Run from within SQL to get list of items in directory to a table.

(DOS Batch) DOS Calculate Free Space on Drive

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:30:32 GMT

Run this from within SQL Server to get free space on a drive into a table. See http://snipplr.com/view/8339/write-disk-space-to-table/ for SQL.

(DOS Batch) DOS Generate Thumbnails with NConvert

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:29:14 GMT

Crops and resizes, maintaining perspective, with a white background.