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.

I use this function when passing an array to a function being called from setTimeout();

Using the extract() Functio

This code, working with MovableType, creates a tag cloud of tags entered into the keyword field of a blog entry. You can see the results and read my write-up which explains some other things that help with MovableType and tag clouds. I got this code from Al-Muhajabah and made a few minor tweaks. Put the PHP snippet below inside a MT template that creates a php page.

Validate Email Address

Alternate row coloring using javascript

check if a function exists in your code using javascript before calling it.

convert a string to x,y,z types

Toggles the visibility of an HTML element. Should be part of everyone's javascript toolkit

This is a quick set of overrides for Javascript so that any variable can be passed to PHP in a GET/POST activity. Just call myVar.toPHP();

I use this little set of functions extensively in a little Javascript/PHP RPC handler I wrote. I don't have the reverse function, as I pass JSON back to the browser for the return value.

Note: This lib is not safe for binaries or HTML Elements. The former will come out similar to FTP ASCII breaks, and the latter will cause infinite recursion. If you want to make a speical case for HTML Elements, do so; you could probably just test for parentNode and create a 'safe' object from that. I didn't need it, so I didn't code it.

As for binary safety, at some point between toPHP/escape/post/urldecode/unserialize, the object breaks. Rather than create a huge fix for something I didn't need to do, I put in a quick match/hack. Don't like it? Write the fix yourself.