DaveChild

Member since 09/11/2008

Location: UK

Website: http://www.addedbytes.com

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JavaScript JavaScript Highlight Inline Styles

Puts a red border around anything with an inline style. Prefix with "javascript:" and paste into the address bar to run on a page directly, or run with a load event.

1 426 posted 13 years ago by DaveChild

PHP PHP SoftHyphens Function

This function will add soft hyphens after every 3rd character in words of over 10 characters. It will not leave fewer than three characters following a soft hyphen. Known bugs: Adds soft hyphens to URLs and within HTML tags.

0 425 posted 13 years ago by DaveChild

JavaScript JavaScript View Page Source

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0 433 posted 13 years ago by DaveChild

PHP MODx Snippet: Tweet This

This snippet returns a link to twitter for the user to tweet the current page. URL is TinyURLed automatically (and tinyurls are cached indefinitely in assets/cache/tweetthis.txt). Simply paste code into a new snippet called "TweetThis". Call it li...

3 472 posted 13 years ago by DaveChild

JavaScript JavaScript Apply Max-Width (in Pixels) in IE

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0 498 posted 14 years ago by DaveChild

PHP PHP Strip Signature from Email

If reading email from a POP box with PHP, you can use this to strip out signatures (ones that are delimited with the proper '--' notation). It will only strip the last signature of an email, in case someone enters a '--' intentionally elsewhere.

0 468 posted 14 years ago by DaveChild

PHP PHP Get First Characters of String in Complete Sentences

Pass in text and the maximum allowable length and this snippet will return as many full sentences from the text as it can within that length. If no sentences, it will just trim to the maximum length allowed.

1 627 posted 14 years ago by DaveChild

PHP PHP Generate URL From Text

Function replaces all non-alpha-numeric chars and cleans up a text string. Should output a usable URL for almost all text.

1 614 posted 14 years ago by DaveChild

SQL SQL Shrink Transaction Log

0 459 posted 14 years ago by DaveChild

SQL SQL Rebuild Dev Database

This script should be run from the "master" database. It will destroy the dev copy of a database and restore from the live copy. Code slightly modified from original (linked).

database

0 393 posted 14 years ago by DaveChild

DOS Batch DOS List Items in Directory

Run from within SQL to get list of items in directory to a table.

1 504 posted 14 years ago by DaveChild

DOS Batch DOS Generate Thumbnails with NConvert

Crops and resizes, maintaining perspective, with a white background.

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1 542 posted 14 years ago by DaveChild

VB.NET VB.NET Singleton Class

class

1 676 posted 14 years ago by DaveChild

ASP VBScript Regular Expressions

Based on the ereg family of functions in PHP.

replace

0 542 posted 14 years ago by DaveChild

ASP VBScript Date Format Functions

Format strings: * %A - AM or PM * %a - am or pm * %m - Month with leading zeroes (01 - 12) * %n - Month without leading zeroes (1 - 12) * %F - Month name (January - December) * %M - Three letter month name (Jan - Dec) * $d - Da...