A javascript function that returns the item with the max length in an string array

Note that stritems in our case is a single string, containing other strings separated with comas.

function FindMaxItemLength(stritems)
{
var itemsArray=new Array()
itemsArray=stritems.split(",")

var i=0;
var j=0;
var val1='';
var val2='';
var ret_len = 0;

for (i=0;i {
val1=itemsArray[i];
for (j=0;j {
val2=itemsArray[j];
if (val2.length > val1.length)
{
ret_len = val2.length;
}
}
}

return ret_len;
}

A php function that calculates the size of an image to a preview thumb

Note that $equal2Width is by default set to 60 pixels, you can set this parameter to your own needs.

function SetPreviewImageDimensions($img, &$newImgWidth, &$newImgHeight)
{
$equal2Width = 60;

$arrayImg = getimagesize($img);
$ImgWidth = $arrayImg[0];
$ImgHeight = $arrayImg[1];
if ($ImgWidth > $equal2Width) {
$newImgWidth = $equal2Width;
$newImgHeight = ($ImgHeight/$ImgWidth) * $newImgWidth;
}
else {
$newImgWidth = $ImgWidth;
$newImgHeight = $ImgHeight;
}

}

Variables $newImgWidth and $newImgHeight are passed by refference, so the returned values of width and height will be passed in these variables for your later use.

A simple php function that separates date from time

$d is a date similar to the format yyyy/mm/dd h:m:s , there must be a space between the the date and time part of the given date for the function to work correctly.

If $returnDate is set to true, this function returns the date part
else it returns the time part.

function SeparateDateFromTime($d, $returnDate)
{
$retValue = "";

if ($returnDate==True) { // return date...
$retValue = trim(substr($d, 0, stripos($d, " ")));
}
else { // return time...
$retValue = trim(substr($d, stripos($d, " ")));
}

return $retValue;
}

A simple pagination object in php

Copy and paste the following code to your.php file

class PS_Pagination {
var $php_self;
var $rows_per_page; //Number of records to display per page
var $num_rows; //Total number of rows returned by the query
var $links_per_page; //Number of links to display per page
var $sql;
var $debug = false;
var $conn;
var $page;
var $max_pages;
var $offset;
var $extra_url;

/**
* Constructor
*
* @param resource $connection Mysql connection link
* @param string $sql SQL query to paginate. Example : SELECT * FROM users
* @param integer $rows_per_page Number of records to display per page. Defaults to 10
* @param integer $links_per_page Number of links to display per page. Defaults to 5
*/

function PS_Pagination($connection, $sql, $rows_per_page = 10, $links_per_page = 5, $extra_url) {
$this->conn = $connection;
$this->sql = $sql;
$this->rows_per_page = $rows_per_page;
$this->links_per_page = $links_per_page;
$this->php_self = htmlspecialchars($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
$this->extra_url = $extra_url;
if(isset($_GET['page'])) {
$this->page = intval($_GET['page']);
}
}

/**
* Executes the SQL query and initializes internal variables
*
* @access public
* @return resource
*/
function paginate() {
if(!$this->conn) {
if($this->debug) echo "MySQL connection missing
";
return false;
}

if($this->page <= 0) { $this->page = 1;
}

//Calculate Offset
$this->offset = $this->rows_per_page * ($this->page-1);
$this->rows_per_page1=$this->rows_per_page+1;

// check for next page
$rs = @mysql_query($this->sql." LIMIT {$this->offset}, {$this->rows_per_page1}");
# echo $this->sql." LIMIT {$this->offset}, {$this->rows_per_page1}
";

if(!$rs) {
if($this->debug) echo "Pagination query failed. Check your query.
";
return false;
} else {
$this->num_rows = mysql_num_rows($rs);
@mysql_close($rs);
}

//Fetch the required result set
$rs = @mysql_query($this->sql." LIMIT {$this->offset}, {$this->rows_per_page}");
# echo $this->sql." LIMIT {$this->offset}, {$this->rows_per_page}";

if(!$rs) {
if($this->debug) echo "Pagination query failed. Check your query.
";
return false;
}

return $rs;
}

/**
* Display the link to the first page
*
* @access public
* @param string $tag Text string to be displayed as the link. Defaults to 'First'
* @return string
*/
function renderFirst($tag='<<') {
if($this->page == 1) {
return $tag;
}
else {
return ''.$tag.'';
}
}

/**
* Display the link to the last page
*
* @access public
* @param string $tag Text string to be displayed as the link. Defaults to 'Last'
* @return string
*/
function renderLast($tag='>>') {
if($this->page == $this->max_pages) {
return $tag;
}
else {
return ''.$tag.'';
}
}

/**
* Display the next link
*
* @access public
* @param string $tag Text string to be displayed as the link. Defaults to '>>'
* @return string
*/
function renderNext($tag=' >') {
if($this->num_rows > $this->rows_per_page) {
return ''.$tag.'';
}
else {
return $tag;
}
}

/**
* Display the previous link
*
* @access public
* @param string $tag Text string to be displayed as the link. Defaults to '<<' * @return string */ function renderPrev($tag='<') { if($this->page > 1) {
return ''.$tag.'';
}
else {
return $tag;
}
}

/**
* Display the page links
*
* @access public
* @return string
*/
function renderNav() {
for($i=1;$i<=$this->max_pages;$i+=$this->links_per_page) {
if($this->page >= $i) {
$start = $i;
}
}

if($this->max_pages > $this->links_per_page) {
$end = $start+$this->links_per_page;
if($end > $this->max_pages) $end = $this->max_pages+1;
}
else {
$end = $this->max_pages;
}

$links = '';

for( $i=$start ; $i<$end ; $i++) { if($i == $this->page) {
$links .= " $i ";
}
else {
$links .= ' '.$i.' ';
}
}

return $links;
}

/**
* Display full pagination navigation
*
* @access public
* @return string
*/
function renderFullNav() {
return $this->renderFirst().' '.$this->renderPrev().' '.$this->renderNav().' '.$this->renderNext().' '.$this->renderLast();
}

/**
* Set debug mode
*
* @access public
* @param bool $debug Set to TRUE to enable debug messages
* @return void
*/
function setDebug($debug) {
$this->debug = $debug;
}
}
?>

How to init the pagination object in your php code:
// Create a Pagination object
$pager = new PS_Pagination($con, $strSql, $_MAX_ROWS, $_MAX_LINKS, $q_params);
// The paginate() function returns a mysql result set
$pages = $pager->paginate();

Where $con is your connection string,
$strSql is your select statement, example: "select * from employees"
$_MAX_ROWS = max rows per page to show.
$_MAX_LINKS = max links per page to show.
$q_params = other options that you might want to have in your request for having the control of the pages.



Use the following commands to move between the pages

$pager->renderFirst(); // go to the the first page
$pager->renderPrev(); // go to the previous page
$pager->renderNext(); // go to the next page
$pager->renderLast(); // go to the last page

Find your ip address

$serverIP=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
echo $serverIP;

php mime_content_type function, checks the file type

if(!function_exists('mime_content_type')) {

function mime_content_type($filename) {

$mime_types = array(

'txt' => 'text/plain',
'htm' => 'text/html',
'html' => 'text/html',
'php' => 'text/html',
'css' => 'text/css',
'js' => 'application/javascript',
'json' => 'application/json',
'xml' => 'application/xml',
'swf' => 'application/x-shockwave-flash',
'flv' => 'video/x-flv',

// images
'png' => 'image/png',
'jpe' => 'image/jpeg',
'jpeg' => 'image/jpeg',
'jpg' => 'image/jpeg',
'gif' => 'image/gif',
'bmp' => 'image/bmp',
'ico' => 'image/vnd.microsoft.icon',
'tiff' => 'image/tiff',
'tif' => 'image/tiff',
'svg' => 'image/svg+xml',
'svgz' => 'image/svg+xml',

// archives
'zip' => 'application/zip',
'rar' => 'application/x-rar-compressed',
'exe' => 'application/x-msdownload',
'msi' => 'application/x-msdownload',
'cab' => 'application/vnd.ms-cab-compressed',

// audio/video
'mp3' => 'audio/mpeg',
'qt' => 'video/quicktime',
'mov' => 'video/quicktime',

// adobe
'pdf' => 'application/pdf',
'psd' => 'image/vnd.adobe.photoshop',
'ai' => 'application/postscript',
'eps' => 'application/postscript',
'ps' => 'application/postscript',

// ms office
'doc' => 'application/msword',
'rtf' => 'application/rtf',
'xls' => 'application/vnd.ms-excel',
'ppt' => 'application/vnd.ms-powerpoint',

// open office
'odt' => 'application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text',
'ods' => 'application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet',
);

$ext = strtolower(array_pop(explode('.',$filename)));
if (array_key_exists($ext, $mime_types)) {
return $mime_types[$ext];
}
elseif (function_exists('finfo_open')) {
$finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME);
$mimetype = finfo_file($finfo, $filename);
finfo_close($finfo);
return $mimetype;
}
else {
return 'application/octet-stream';
}
}
}

Add JavaScript in blogger (blogspot) post

Summary:
This post talks about why javascript sometimes does not work in blogger post and how to make it works.

Javascript code works well in HTML/Jscript gadgets, so it is no need to talk of this. Here we focus on Javascript in a post.

Let's start with an example. I added this SWFObect Javascript code to embed a flash video player generated by Moyea Web Player (http://www.playerdiy.com/ ) to show videos in my blog post and it was not working:

Player will show here

To my strange is that this code works in my Dreamweaver or other HTML editor. But why does not work in blogger?
I tried many other code and then I found this javascript code work well in blogger post:

Test

After this, I look carefully at my blogger post source (Edit Html):

Player will show here

There is a problem. In almost each new line. Almost Every time you have new line, blogger editor adds
tag. Because of this
tag web browser can't execute jscript.

So correct solution for my problem should look like this:

Player
will show here

To work well javascript in blogger post should be in one line.