Author Archives: Craig Lotter
Download a Full Facebook Photo Album in Firefox
Allows you to download all the photos and images from either a FaceBook friend, event or group's photo album en masse, i.e. all in one foul swoop.
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Photoshop: Text Tool Keyboard Shortcuts
In order to speed up your work using Photoshop's powerful but sometimes quite frustrating text tool, here are a couple of handy keyboard shortcuts you might like to remember...
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Send Highlighted Text and Link via Email Fast!
Allows you to right-click on any selected text on any webpage your are currently browsing and then send the highlight text, title plus link to an email recipient
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Force Your Script to Run Longer than Maximum Execution Time
So how does one go about forcing a script to stay alive infinitely until it eventually finishes its job?
Posted in Technology & Code, Tutorials Tagged infinite execution, maximum execution time, PHP, set time limit, timeout 1 Comment
How to Convert an UTF-16 File to an UTF-8 file using PHP
Taking Andrew Walker's previously mentioned handy little UTF-16 to UTF-8 string converter function, we now have in our means a particularly easy way in which to craft a simple UTF-16 to UTF-8 file converter.
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Inserting Backslashes into a Database Table with PHP
Sometimes you need to store things like file paths into a database table during your PHP script's execution. However, on going back to the database after running your script, you might come across your path with all of its backslashes (\) missing!
PHP: Convert a UTF-16 String to a UTF-8 String
Andrew Walker crafted this handy little PHP function which can convert a UTF-16 encoded string into a more PHP-friendly UTF-8 encoded string.
Posted in Technology & Code Tagged andrew walker, byte order mark, convert, function, PHP, string, utf-16, utf-8 1 Comment
AutoComplete Country Selection using jQuery