How to Handle Uploading Really Large Files in PHP
PHP has some default limits that do not work out of the box when you want to work with uploading very large files.
So there are a few configuration changes you have to make to the defaults that come with PHP. These are defined in you php.ini file.
The...
Written by Sean Behan on 09/20/2018
I Just Published My First PHP Package HTMLXPATH
I just wrote and published my first PHP package on Packagist.com. It's available on [packagist.org](https://packagist.org/packages/htmlxpath/htmlxpath) and the source code is on [github](https://github.com/seanbehan/htmlxpath).
To install the package u...
Written by Sean Behan on 03/28/2017
Email Obfuscation and Extraction from Text with Rails
There is a helper method for handling the obfuscation of email addresses in Rails.
mail_to "me@domain.com", "My email", :encode => "hex"
# => My email
If you want to then extract an email address(or all email addresses) from a block of text here is the...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Problem slash Bug in Rails with attr_accessor and Datetime Select Fields
Looks like there is a problem with using the attr_accessor method with datetime form fields http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8983 In Rails 2.3.2, for me at least, the problem seems to be popping up again. While trying to process a date for credit card v...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Build Your Own Calendar in Rails without any Plugins in less than 10 lines of Ruby Code
There are a number of terrific calendar plugins for Rails. But it's almost as easy, if not easier, to implement your own calendar.
The steps are pretty simple. First get the @beginning_of_month and @end_of_month and iterate over the days in between. In t...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012