Allows you to hide all elements on an HTML page by their tag name. Extremely handy in getting around the "Windowless Elements" problem in IE, which is a bug that puts certain elements, most commonly select boxes, on top of any other element, no matter what. As you can imagine, this causes real problems with DHTML drop-down menus and such like. This is the simplest and quickest fix I've come up with, I simply set this function to run alongside the drop-down and all of the select tags vanish before a menu drops, then I run the show function when the menu retracts.

Enforce loadig fresh script code for the external javascript files. Compatible with HTTP 1.0.

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

You can use this function to dynamically generate html "width/height" for use with displaying a thumbnail image usingthe original image. This will help save in making dup images just for display as a thumbnail.

It takes two arguments, the path to where the image is stored and the desired width or height.

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The below code will generate a form dropdown for all 12 months, with the current month selected. Handy for those date pickers!

This will give you CheckDNSRR functionality in windows.

This function is only natively available in php while running on Linux.

If a visitor comes to your site from a search engine such as Google or Yahoo, this function will highlight the keywords in a given text the user used for his search.

This only seems appropriate, we were fighting with a similar issue this morning.

Example of how to use CURL with PHP.

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.