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function truncate(string, words) {
  var max_chars = 6 * parseInt(words);
  var words_array = string.split(" ");
  var index = parseInt(words) - 1;
  var truncated = words_array.slice(0, index).join(" ");

  if ( truncated.length > max_chars ) {
    truncated = string.slice(0, max_chars) + "...";
  } else if ( truncated === string ) {
    truncated = string;

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<?php

// Presence check
if ($firstname == '' || $lastname == '' || $street == '' || $suburb == '' || $postcode == '' || $email == '' || $status == '' || $dob == '') {
  $error = 'Your field is empty';
  renderForm($firstname, $lastname, $street, $suburb, $postcode, $email, $status, $dob, $error);
// Validate Email
} elseif (ereg('\S+@\S+\.\S+', $email) == false)  {
  $error = 'Please enter a valid email address.';
  renderForm($firstname, $lastname, $street, $suburb, $postcode, $email, $status, $dob, $error);

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// Validate using a custom URL (external server script)
function validates_instance_url( url, attr ) {
    var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
    xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
        if ( xhr.readyState === 4 ) {
            if ( xhr.status !== 200 || xhr.responseText === "false" || xhr.responseText === "0" ) {
                return false;
            } else {
                return true;
            }

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// ......................//
// Database configuration
// ......................//

// Establish connection to the MySQLite database file...
var db_connection = require("knex")({
  client: "sqlite3",
  connection: {
    filename: "../blog_database.db" // path to sqlite database we just created
  }

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$ sqlite3 blog_database.db

sqlite3> CREATE TABLE Posts(
    ...>   id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
    ...>   title VARCHAR(255),
    ...>   content TEXT,
    ...>   created_at TEXT
    ...> );
sqlite3> .quit

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// Routes
var blogRoutes = require("./routes/blog.js");
app.use("/", blogRoutes);

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// Require the express library
var express = require("express");
var router = express.Router();

router.get("/", function(request, response) {
    response.render("index", { // "index" is the name of the view file to render (without extension)
        title: "Welcome to my blog!" // Will be used for the HTML <title>
    });
});

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// Require express to handle our http stuff later on.
var express = require("express");

// Require EJS - our templating system for views.
var ejs = require("ejs");
ejs.open = "<?";
ejs.close = "?>"; // Use javascript in view files with <? ... ?>

// Express can be used under the `app` namespace.
var app = express();

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<div class="container">The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.</div>

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def truncate(string, words)
  # Define the maximum number of characters that can be used before
  # standard truncation is applied (prevents long words from ruinning HTML).
  max_chars = 6 * words
  words_array = string.split(" ") # splits each word into an array ["like", "this"]
  index = words - 1 # array indexes start at 0, so let's take one number off the words amount.
  truncated = words_array[0..index].join(" ")
  
  return truncated + "..."
end