A proof of concept idea I had for implementing an aspect oriented framework in PHP (yes, I know about http://aophp.net, but it requires a module).

I thought it was neat, so I'm going to share it.

Hope someone likes it.

This function will reverse the affects of register_globals

This small snippet will not allow _POST requests from a 'foreign' domain. It relies on the HTTP_REFERER variable.

This simple function will check if a url is valid (going by parse_url()) and if it's 'online' - by seeing if it returns a 302, 301, or 200 status code.

This class can be used to retrieve the search words entered by an user in a search engine site that lead the user to the current page.

The class can parse the HTTP_REFERER variable if present. Then it can detect which search engine site lead the user to the current page, and extract the search words.

Currently the following engines are supported:

- Google
- Yahoo
- MSN
- AllTheWeb
- LookSmart
- AskJeeves

This PHP class allows you to send SMS to almost every country directly from your website. All you need is an account on www.tm4b.com and PHP 5.

Also required is either cURL or allow_url_fopen enabled in php.ini

The following script is a single interface for pre-validating any HTML form. It lets you validate your form data the way you want, while handling the rudimentary tasks itself.

1) Change just one variable to make it work with $_GET or $_POST or $_REQUEST.

2) Name which elements are 'required' all at once in a hidden HTML text input.

3) Easily provide field descriptions in hidden HTML text inputs that you can use to print error statements.

4) Call a single function to print out error statements that you can easily style with CSS.

5) It automatically checks if fields marked 'required' have been filled out.

Most of the pre-validation code is from PHP 5: Unleashed by Sams Publishing. I found it extremely useful for a recent project. Sharing it here, I removed some unnecessary functions, and tried to simplify some points.

All the comments are my own; hopefully I provided more than enough explanation.

A simple MySQL class for use in PHP.
Feel free to suggest improvements.

Using the SwingX JXMapViewer and using a special tile factory to retrieve Google Maps tiles, from a Groovy SwingBuilder.

Don't know if anyone will find this handly, but here's a CSS processor that I wrote that allows me to nest CSS Blocks, and various other things, making for an easier to maintain CSS file.

Warning: I'd recommend caching the results since I didn't have a need to optomize it for speed.

Things that it includes:
*Nested CSS Rules
*Removes Whitespace
*Allows for // comments
*Removes comments (so put them in at no cost)

Please let me know what you think