XPath with HTML in PHP One Liner
Here is a one liner for using XPATH with HTML in PHP
$doc = new DOMXPath(@DOMDocument::loadHTML(file_get_contents("https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/")));
Now you can use XPATH to query the html..
foreach($doc->query("//a") as $el){
echo $el->no...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/14/2017
A Regular Expression to Generate Dash Separated Slugs AKA Pretty URLs
This regular expression matches non alphanumeric characters in a string.
r = /[^a-z0-9]{1,}/i
You can use it to create URL friendly slugs.
slug = "hello world!".gsub(/[^a-z0-9]{1,}/i, '-').downcase # => hello-world
In combination wit...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/22/2013
Hacking Rails Plugins
Using the Acts as Taggable On plugin to add categories to a model class, I wanted to override the to_param method and place the name attribute in the url. The plugin, installed as a gem, source shouldn't need to be hacked in order to accomplish this. The ...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Use Python Shutil Make_Archive to Zip Up a Directory Recursively including The Root Folder
The documentation for Python's shutil.make_archive is very confusing. Considering that the arguments to this function only need to be source and destination, makes it even more frustrating to try and reason about.
Here are the relevant docs from the p...
Written by Sean Behan on 05/16/2018
Workshop Dog
Workshop Dog is a free events calendar for dog training workshops and group lessons.
Users can list their training workshops as well as create a business profile. Jobs may be posted to the site for a small fee. Events that are created are distributed to...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
