Programming

Here’s a very simple PHP function that will parse text and force fully constructed links to open in a new window. If you’re building a comment area (or something similar) for your website it’s likely that you want to retain an open page to minimise your click-through-rate, and this function will assist to serve that [...]

WHOIS is a protocol that is widely used for querying databases in order to determine the registrant or assignee of a domain name or IP address (range). In its simplest form, building a small PHP script to query the appropriate WHOIS server and outputting readable information is quite simple, yet complex solutions are usually required [...]

The process of parsing text and making text links within it clickable is quite challenging, and well beyond the comprehension of my limited brain capacity. Fortunately, there are plenty of people out there who have released their own snippets of code that tend to accomplish the task quite well – particularly if you’re submitting text [...]