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Cheat Sheets
Regular Expressions (V1)
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Regular Expressions are very powerful, and many people find their unusual syntax hard to get to grips with. This A4 reference serves as a guide to regular expression patterns and options.
JavaScript
A quick reference guide for JavaScript, listing methods and functions, and including a guide to regular expressions and the XMLHttpRequest object.
PHP (V1)
I'm fed up with having to visit php.net to look things up. This A4 cheat sheet is designed to sit by your desk and make your life easier.
Articles
Writing Secure PHP, Part 4
The fourth part of the Writing Secure PHP series, covering cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery and character encoding security issues.
Preload Images with CSS
How to preload images using CSS and so avoid delays with rollover effects.
Writing Secure PHP, Part 1
Learn how to avoid some of the most common mistakes in PHP, and so make your sites more secure.
Caching output in PHP
High-traffic sites can often benefit from caching of pages, to save processing of the same data over and over again. This caching tutorial runs through the basics of file caching in PHP.
Blog Posts
RSS to iCal
I have been looking for a way to convert the BBC weather feed for my area to iCal, so I can subscribe to it. It's date-based, after all, and RSS never seemed to me to be an appropriate format for subscribing to weather information. iCal always struck me as being "better" for that purpose. Of course, the BBC only have an RSS feed for local weather. What I needed was a converter.
After some hunting, I discovered that Dean Sanvitale had written a PHP script to convert RSS feeds to iCal format. However, his site (codent.com) appears to be long since abandoned and the script is no longer available from there. Fortunately, the Wayback Machine did have a copy. Dean originally released the script under a Creative Commons License which, fortunately, allows me to make the script available to download from this site (note: the script is available from this site under the same license).
So, if you're looking for a way to convert an RSS feed to iCal, this PHP script will do the job. Thanks Dean!
Source: rss2ical.txt
