DaveChild

Member since 09/11/2008

Location: UK

Website: http://www.addedbytes.com

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JavaScript JavaScript Highlight Inline Styles

Puts a red border around anything with an inline style. Prefix with "javascript:" and paste into the address bar to run on a page directly, or run with a load event.

1 766 posted 15 years ago by DaveChild

PHP PHP SoftHyphens Function

This function will add soft hyphens after every 3rd character in words of over 10 characters. It will not leave fewer than three characters following a soft hyphen. Known bugs: Adds soft hyphens to URLs and within HTML tags.

0 705 posted 15 years ago by DaveChild

JavaScript JavaScript View Page Source

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0 748 posted 15 years ago by DaveChild

PHP MODx Snippet: Tweet This

This snippet returns a link to twitter for the user to tweet the current page. URL is TinyURLed automatically (and tinyurls are cached indefinitely in assets/cache/tweetthis.txt). Simply paste code into a new snippet called "TweetThis". Call it li...

3 818 posted 15 years ago by DaveChild

JavaScript JavaScript Apply Max-Width (in Pixels) in IE

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0 790 posted 15 years ago by DaveChild

PHP PHP Strip Signature from Email

If reading email from a POP box with PHP, you can use this to strip out signatures (ones that are delimited with the proper '--' notation). It will only strip the last signature of an email, in case someone enters a '--' intentionally elsewhere.

0 833 posted 15 years ago by DaveChild

PHP PHP Get First Characters of String in Complete Sentences

Pass in text and the maximum allowable length and this snippet will return as many full sentences from the text as it can within that length. If no sentences, it will just trim to the maximum length allowed.

1 1006 posted 15 years ago by DaveChild

PHP PHP Generate URL From Text

Function replaces all non-alpha-numeric chars and cleans up a text string. Should output a usable URL for almost all text.

1 1021 posted 16 years ago by DaveChild

SQL SQL Shrink Transaction Log

0 769 posted 16 years ago by DaveChild

SQL SQL Rebuild Dev Database

This script should be run from the "master" database. It will destroy the dev copy of a database and restore from the live copy. Code slightly modified from original (linked).

database

0 711 posted 16 years ago by DaveChild

DOS Batch DOS List Items in Directory

Run from within SQL to get list of items in directory to a table.

1 809 posted 16 years ago by DaveChild

DOS Batch DOS Generate Thumbnails with NConvert

Crops and resizes, maintaining perspective, with a white background.

images

1 920 posted 16 years ago by DaveChild

VB.NET VB.NET Singleton Class

class

1 1049 posted 16 years ago by DaveChild

ASP VBScript Regular Expressions

Based on the ereg family of functions in PHP.

replace

0 863 posted 16 years ago by DaveChild

ASP VBScript Date Format Functions

Format strings: * %A - AM or PM * %a - am or pm * %m - Month with leading zeroes (01 - 12) * %n - Month without leading zeroes (1 - 12) * %F - Month name (January - December) * %M - Three letter month name (Jan - Dec) * $d - Da...

date

0 1333 posted 16 years ago by DaveChild

HTML HTML Countries Select Box (French)

Translated by David Hunter.

html

0 1134 posted 16 years ago by DaveChild

HTML HTML Countries Select Box (English)

html

4 1110 posted 16 years ago by DaveChild

HTML HTML US States Select Box

html

7 1399 posted 16 years ago by DaveChild

HTML HTML UK Counties Select Box

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0 2800 posted 16 years ago by DaveChild