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wilhelm-murdoch / JSONCountries.json
Created December 6, 2010 02:45
Here is a JSON object which contains a list of all countries and their associated abbreviations. Thought others might find this useful.
[
{"US":"United States"},
{"CA":"Canada"},
{"AF":"Afghanistan"},
{"AL":"Albania"},
{"DZ":"Algeria"},
{"DS":"American Samoa"},
{"AD":"Andorra"},
{"AO":"Angola"},
{"AI":"Anguilla"},
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wilhelm-murdoch / chunkFile(path, chunks);
Created March 12, 2010 08:15
Does a binary-safe split of a specified file. The number of chunks generated is determined by the $chunks parameter.
function chunkFile($file, $chunks = 2)
{
$handle = fopen($file, 'rb');
$count = 1;
while(false == feof($handle))
{
if($data = fread($handle, round(filesize($file) / $chunks)))
{
file_put_contents(basename($file) . "-chunk-{$count}.txt", $data);
/**
* Completely strips a string of carriage returns and line feeds.
*
* @param $string String to parse
* @return String
*/
function stripReturns($string)
{
return str_replace(array("\r\n", "\r", "\n"), array("\n", "\n", ''), $string);
}
function generate_osid($length)
{
$rand = '';
for($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++)
{
$number = mt_rand(0, 61);
if($number < 10)
{
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wilhelm-murdoch / Relative Time Function
Created February 2, 2010 12:09
Used to print out the given timestamp in relative format.
function relative($timestamp, $format = 'M jS \of Y')
{
$difference = time() - $timestamp;
if($months = floor($difference / 2592000))
{
return date($format, $timestamp);
}
$difference -= $months * 2419200;
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wilhelm-murdoch / Tweet Parser
Created February 1, 2010 13:55
Properly parse tweets using PHP.
function parse($tweet)
{
$regex = array
(
'#([a-z]{3,9}://[a-z0-9-_./\\\?&\+]*)#i',
'#[a-z0-9._%+-]+@[a-z0-9.-]+\.[a-z]{2,6}#i',
'#@([a-z0-9-_]+)#i',
'#\#([a-z0-9-_]+)#i'
);