The problem with just echoing a php sting for a javascript variable is escaping the sting properly for single and double quotes and line returns. I found this fix for my problem with an apostrophe in the string that closed out the quote early. This is a better option that trying to use addslashes. Use json_encode instead. […]
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Add this snippet of code at the top of the page to display any errors that may be thrown. Be sure to remove this code before pushing out to a production environment. For wordpress specific sites, the following code is useful in the wp-config.php file if you are trouble shooting a live site, and don’t
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I’ve found this function to be the most accurate for calculating a persons age (knowing their birthdate). Source: http://spyk3lc.blogspot.com/2012/03/php-get-age-comparison-results-of-3.html
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The following functions are useful especially when pull an rss feed from a remote site, and you want to display the first image in the post. returnImage() will return the first entire image tag, which can then be passed to scrapeImage to return just the image source.
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