If you have large JSON files with application settings in, you need to be sure that the settings only appear…

You cannot strip a certain list of tags with PHP’s strip_tags() function, you can only strip ‘all but’ tags. So…

This horrendous regular expression will parse a string and return a valid email address from it. $email = "<'Freddy'> fred@live.com"; preg_match('/[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*@(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?/', $email,…

I’ve found an excellent online tool, where you can give it a regex, and it will spit out the PHP…

Say you have a list of movie titles, and you want to either sort them, or search through them, and…

Regular expressions — everyone loves them, right? Well, I am currently running Ubuntu, and I would normally use RegexBuddy –…