I like to have these two methods in my toolbelt, even though it's syntactic sugar, I think it aids clarity.

A very simple yet very useful function to have around. Especially generating session codes, filenames or new passwords

Truncate String

Fixed missing $ sign.

Ping, PingOMatic service for an updated. Requires: The Inutio XML-RPC Library.

Convert a password returned by JPasswordField::getPassword() into a String.

Get a List of Folders and/or Files

This is a simple PHP script that will show whether a certain port/socket of a certain computer is currently open/active.

Function that splits a given string into sections based on the allowed length for a section. Does not split words up. Splits string on Space character (can be set to another character)

This routine checks a client's IP address against a few open lists of blacklisted IP addresses, returns TRUE if the ip is a known proxy.