Simple tests for dir and file existance. Path creation and removal.

boost::format gives you the ablility to safely use printf like formatting as well as positional format specifiers ala .NET.

template function to create a boost::shared_ptr in the form

boost::shared_ptr classPtr = new_ptr(Arg1, Arg2);

You can also make new_ptr_access a friend of className and make the constructor and destructor private.

This keeps the end user from:

Creating an instance manually on the heap
Creating an instance manually on the stack
Deleting a shared_ptr manually using "delete get()"

Gets a regular expression that'll search for any regexp pattern specified in the parameters.

Gets the rightmost substring, of the specified length, from a String object.

Sometimes you need to remove slashes from POST variables which could contain arrays. The standard slipslashes-function only takes a string as parameter.

This function removes slashes from both a simple string and array variable.

Generate a random number or string in PHP.

Convert an irregular name=value pair string into a formatted array.

Given a string, you can return an Enum value

Originally found at http://codeproject.com/dotnet/EnumTips.asp?df=100&forumid=38264&exp=0&select=797671

Fixed the regular expression to check for more strict requirements.