Removing trailing comas with PHP
November 2, 2009 by Josh Highland
Filed under php, tutorials
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 is found, the string [...]
Create Wordpress Thumbnails Automatically
September 29, 2009 by Josh Highland
Filed under php, tutorials, wordpress
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” custom [...]