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function parsePostcode2($postcode) {
    $postcode = preg_replace('/\s*/','',strtoupper($postcode));

    $sector = substr($postcode,0,-2);
    $outcode = $district = substr($sector,0,-1);

    list($area) = sscanf($district,'%[A-Z]');
    $incode = substr($postcode,-3);

    return array( 

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This is a simple reader class for gpx files retrieved from the G-Paws Cat Tracker that allows you to loop over the trackpoints read from that file, returning lat/lon as attributes of a simple stdClass object as the returned "key" from the Reader, and ele/time as attributes of a simple stdClass object as the returned "value"

The Reader class

class gpxReader
{

    public function __construct($fileName)
    {

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function duplicateKeys($string) {
    $string = strtolower($string);
    $length = strlen($string);
    for ($i = 0; $i < $length; ++$i) {
        yield ord(strpos($string, $string[$i])) => $string[$i];
    }
}

foreach (duplicateKeys('badass') as $i => $value) {
    echo $i , ' -> ' , $value, PHP_EOL;

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For the Open Source PHPExcel library (https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPExcel):

• Autodetect separator, enclosure and line endings for CSV Reader

  An autodetect option that will identify the separator (e.g. comma, semicolon, pipe, tab, etc), the enclosure (e.g. quote, double quote), enclosure escape character (e.g. "" or ") and line endings for csv files, and set them up for the CSV reader.

• Helper Wizards for number format masks

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Trying a little experiment with PHP's SPLHeap, but puzzled by the fact that iterating over the heap seems to be removing each entry as I access it.

The code

class ExtendedSPLHeap extends \SPLHeap {

    protected function compare($a, $b) {
        if ($a->latitude == $b->latitude) {
            return 0;

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<?php
class evidenceController {

    public function getDetails($id){
        $course = Course::with(['courseType'])
            ->checkEstablishmentOnView()
            ->excludeArchived()
            ->findOrFail($id);
        $view = View::make('courses/parts/details')
            ->with('course', $course);

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PHPExcel formula debugging

Prior to version 1.7.9

/** Error reporting */
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', TRUE);
ini_set('display_startup_errors', TRUE);
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');

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