Removing trailing comas with PHP

Dealing with trailing comas in lists is common problem for developers. I found the best way to handle this situation in PHP is with the following regular expression. $string = eregi_replace(’,$’, ”, $string); Before: string = “2, 6, 9,” After: string = “2, 6, 9″ Only the trailing coma will be stripped. If no coma [...]

Create WordPress Thumbnails Automatically

WordPress has the ability to allow post authors to assign custom fields to a post. This arbitrary extra information is known as meta-data. This meta-data can be used by theme authors to do some pretty cool things. The theme I am currently using allows for a custom field named “thumb”. If you create the “thumb” [...]