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<?php
// Source : http://css-tricks.com/snippets/php/sanitize-database-inputs/

// Function for stripping out malicious bits
function cleanInput($input) {
 
  $search = array(
    '@<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>@si',   // Strip out javascript
    '@<[\/\!]*?[^<>]*?>@si',            // Strip out HTML tags
    '@<style[^>]*?>.*?</style>@siU',    // Strip style tags properly

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<?php
// Source : http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/snippets/detect-location-by-ip

function detect_city($ip) {

        $default = 'UNKNOWN';

        if (!is_string($ip) || strlen($ip) < 1 || $ip == '127.0.0.1' || $ip == 'localhost')
            $ip = '8.8.8.8';

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<?php
// Source : http://www.inkplant.com/code/get-twitter-posts-by-hashtag.php

function getTweets($hash_tag) {

    $url = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q='.urlencode($hash_tag) ;
    echo "<p>Connecting to <strong>$url</strong> ...</p>";
    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
    $xml = curl_exec ($ch);

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<?php
// Source : http://snipplr.com/view/12631/detect-browser-language/

function get_client_language($available_languages, $default='en'){
	if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'])) {
		$langs=explode(',',$_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']);

		foreach ($langs as $value){
			$choice=substr($value,0,2);
			if(in_array($choice, $available_languages)){