Generating csv data in PHP using input/output streams
by Eric on February 16, 2010
Every now and again a client requests csv formatted data. These can be used for various applications from spreadsheet reports to importing into quaint shipping software. In this post I show you how you can generate this easily from an array directly to the browser, bypassing writing to files on the server.
Fetching Images and Links from HTML Using PHP5
by Eric on February 2, 2010
A topic I see pop up time and time again in my various haunts is how do I fetch images or links from some markup using php5. In this post I will show you two simple methods using DOMDocument & XPath.
Adventures of parsing HTML in Python
by Eric on January 30, 2010
Tonight I was working on a project where I needed to parse some remote HTML of various quality using Python. Read on to see how my adventure went.
The verbosity of git push & pull.
by Eric on January 9, 2010
The verbosity of git push & pull for the lazy.
Using Eclipse Code Templates in PDT for PHP
by Eric on February 6, 2010
Using Eclipse Code Templates in Eclipse PDT for PHP.