j4mie

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
import unicodedata

""" Normalise (normalize) unicode data in Python to remove umlauts, accents etc. """

data = u'naïve café'
normal = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', data).encode('ASCII', 'ignore')
print normal
 

mbijon

<?php
/*
 * XSS filter, recursively handles HTML tags & UTF encoding
 * Optionally handles base64 encoding
 *
 * ***DEPRECATION RECOMMENDED*** Not updated or maintained since 2011
 * A MAINTAINED & BETTER ALTERNATIVE => kses
 * https://github.com/RichardVasquez/kses/
 *
 * This was built from numerous sources

hakre

<?php
/**
 * @see Unicode 6.0.0 Ch2 General Structure, rfc3629
 * @param int|string $codepoint e.g. 0xC9 / "U+00C9"
 * @return string
 */
function unicodeCodePointToUTF8($codepoint)
{
    is_string($codepoint) && sscanf($codepoint, 'U+%x', $codepoint);
    if ($codepoint < 0) {

arosenhagen

Magento Code Snippets

Download extension manually using mage

./mage config-set preferred_state stable
./mage clear-cache
./mage sync
./mage download community Module_Name

Maks3w

<?php

$value = 'A';
$haystack = array('test', 0, 'A');
$strict = false;

$s = microtime(true);
    in_array($value, $haystack, $strict);
$e = microtime(true);
echo '    ' . ($e - $s) . PHP_EOL;

hyone

{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts #-}

import Data.Conduit
import qualified Data.Conduit.List as CL
import Network.HTTP.Conduit

import Control.Concurrent.Async (mapConcurrently)
import Control.Concurrent.MVar
import Control.Monad.IO.Class (liftIO)
import Control.Monad.Trans.Control (MonadBaseControl)

Nurdok

Python Number Conversion Chart

From	To	Expression

jonmchan

<?php
// Calculator.php
class Calculator {
    public function getNumberFromUserInput() {
        // complicated function to get number from user input
    }

    public function printToScreen($value) {
        // another complicated function
    }

pkmishra

import os
import random
from scrapy.conf import settings
class RandomUserAgentMiddleware(object):
    def process_request(self, request, spider):
        ua  = random.choice(settings.get('USER_AGENT_LIST'))
        if ua:
            request.headers.setdefault('User-Agent', ua)

class ProxyMiddleware(object):

nikic

Order of evaluation in PHP

Yesterday I found some people on my [favorite reddit][lolphp] wonder about the output of the following code:

<?php

$a = 1;
$c = $a + $a++;