Manuel João Silva

Collection of jQuery plug-ins for front-end design and development

mjsilva — Wed, 08 May 2013 07:57:27 +0000

Just found out this great site to find jQuery plugins. Worth to check it out. Unheap was assembled in 2010 as an internal team resource. We found other repositories underwhelming and wanted to build a better experience for browsing & staying …

Search on Amazon based on what others buy

mjsilva — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:41:25 +0000

Really cool project that allows one to visualize what other people have bought based on a search query. This is particulary good to find book about a topic, for example lets say you’re trying to find some book …

Run parallel (threaded) bash commands with a job limit from file

mjsilva — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:03:06 +0000

I wanted to change mysql databases to use innodb_file_per_table problem is even if you add this to your my.cnf it will only affect newly created tables. In order to alter existing ones I needed to run a bunch of alter tables with …

PHP strtotime WTF!

mjsilva — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:59:13 +0000

So I just spent almost a day chasing a (what I thought it was) a bug in my code regarding dates. I needed to add a month to a specific date so I can bill ongoing contracts, but the returned date sometimes …

FuelPHP Input arrays validation

mjsilva — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 05:41:34 +0000

After pulling some hair and digging a lot in FuelPHP core I finally discovered a litle hack that allows validation of input arrays and its re-population using FuelPHP Validation Class. Here’s how I did it: View simplified for the sake …

FuelPHP BreadCrumb Class/Library

mjsilva — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:13:20 +0000

Morning, Just finish building a breadcrumb Class for FUELPHP. This Class has persistent crumbs, meaning that visited crumbs will be saved in session. GitHub link for FuelPHP-BreadCrumb Here it is: <?php /** * Created by mjsilva | mail@manueljoaosilva.com * …

Jump Tables Explained

mjsilva — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:39:20 +0000

A jump table is an array of function pointers or even machine instructions, each of which actually performs the jump. The latter is commonly used in assembly language and can be produced by compilers, but the former is something you’re …

Check if all function arguments are equal in PHP

mjsilva — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:03:19 +0000

Question: Could this be written better? private function compareThree($val_1, $val_2, $val_3) { return (($val_1 == $val_2) && ($val_1 == $val_3) && ($val_2 == $val_1) && ($val_2 == $val_3) && ($val_3 == $val_2) && ($val_3 == $val_1)); } Short Answer: Yes! That’s …

Get last key from array in PHP

mjsilva — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:11:23 +0000

The fastest and the correct way to get the last key from an array is: $lastkey = array_pop(array_keys($arr)); Example: $arr[] = array("red" => "apple", "yellow" => "banana"); Let’s say you want to add another element to the previous created array, …

Prevent hotlinking with apache

mjsilva — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:05:01 +0000

To allow all domain except one: RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?offendinddomain\.com/$ [NC] RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|png)$ http://example.com/hotlink.png [R,L] This will prevent holinking from the domain offendingdomain.com and serve the image from example.com instead. Prevent more than one domain: RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?offendinddomain\.com/$ [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?offendinddomain2\.com/ [NC] RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|png)$ …