jaywilliams

<?php
/**
 * Remove any non-ASCII characters and convert known non-ASCII characters 
 * to their ASCII equivalents, if possible.
 *
 * @param string $string 
 * @return string $string
 * @author Jay Williams <myd3.com>
 * @license MIT License
 * @link http://gist.github.com/119517

isaacs

echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc
mkdir ~/local
mkdir ~/node-latest-install
cd ~/node-latest-install
curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1
./configure --prefix=~/local
make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

petemcw

# The MySQL database server configuration file.
#
# DESC: InnoDB mainly, heavy queries, fewer connections, 4GB RAM
#
# Remember to edit /etc/mysql/debian.cnf when changing the socket location.
[client]
port = 3306
socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

# This was formally known as [safe_mysqld]. Both versions are currently parsed.

mathewbyrne

function slugify(text)
{
  return text.toString().toLowerCase()
    .replace(/\s+/g, '-')           // Replace spaces with -
    .replace(/[^\w\-]+/g, '')       // Remove all non-word chars
    .replace(/\-\-+/g, '-')         // Replace multiple - with single -
    .replace(/^-+/, '')             // Trim - from start of text
    .replace(/-+$/, '');            // Trim - from end of text
}

bastianallgeier

/**
 * PE to use SVG as CSS background image with fallback for IE8/7/6
 *
 * Using SVG as CSS background image to display 
 * resolution-independent logos or icons is pretty
 * awesome but does completely fail on IE8/7/6 
 * 
 * The trick:
 * All three IE versions don't support rgba color values.
 * By defining a rgba background color together with the

ziadoz

Awesome PHP

Awesome PHP has been relocated permanently to its own Github repository. No further updates will made to this gist.

Please open an issue for any new suggestions.

daz

.ui-autocomplete {
  position: absolute;
  top: 100%;
  left: 0;
  z-index: 1000;
  float: left;
  display: none;
  min-width: 160px;
  _width: 160px;
  padding: 4px 0;

ebidel

<?php
$fileName = $_FILES['afile']['name'];
$fileType = $_FILES['afile']['type'];
$fileContent = file_get_contents($_FILES['afile']['tmp_name']);
$dataUrl = 'data:' . $fileType . ';base64,' . base64_encode($fileContent);

$json = json_encode(array(
  'name' => $fileName,
  'type' => $fileType,
  'dataUrl' => $dataUrl,

benknight

/**
 * HTML Email buttons that work in Outlook 2007+
 *
 * This is a really weird hacked up piece of crap but basically the technique is the containing element has some solid color background, 
 * and the inner <a> has a solid border which acts like padding which is the same color as the background color
 */

kasparsd

Update: please note that I have since switched to using a set of bash scripts instead of poluting the Git repository with git svn.

Using Git and GitHub with Subversion (SVN) Mirroring for WordPress Plugin Development

Author: Kaspars Dambis
kaspars.net / @konstruktors