December 2016 – Winnie Verzosa

December 22, 2016January 12, 2017

Shorten your link using bitly API

Below is the code on how to make use of bitly API but first things first. In order to use the code below, you must create an account in bitly to gain your login and API Key which are both required in the API call. Once you have that setup, copy and paste the code below and you’re ready to get rollin’.

function makeBitlyUrl($url, $login, $apiKey, $format = 'xml', $version = '2.0.1')
{
	//First, you need to create the URL
	$bitly = 'http://api.bit.ly/shorten?version='.$version.'&longUrl='.urlencode($url).'&login='.$login.'&apiKey='.$apiKey.'&format='.$format;
	
	//Then, get the return data from the API call
	$response = file_get_contents($bitly);
	
	//Parse data depending on your preferred format
	if( strtolower( $format ) == 'json' )
	{
		$json = @json_decode($response,true);
		return $json['results'][$url]['shortUrl'];
	}
	else //Default is XML
	{
		$xml = simplexml_load_string($response);
		return 'http://bit.ly/'.$xml->results->nodeKeyVal->hash;
	}
}

$shortenedUrl = makeBitlyUrl('https://example.com', 'winnie', 'R_123456789abcde', 'json');

December 22, 2016January 10, 2017

Difference between continue and break in PHP

while ( $theConditionIsTrue ) {   <-----------------------┐
    continue;           -------- goes back to check the --┘
}

while ( $theConditionIsTrue ) {   
    break;              -------- exits the loop ----------┐
}                                                         |
                        <---------------------------------┘

December 15, 2016

List of HTTP User Agents

Here’s a very good resource of the list of HTTP User Agents for your reference. Click Here

December 15, 2016

PHP: How to detect the device used by a user?

iOS

if (stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"iPod") || stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"iPhone") || stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"iPad"))
	$device = 'ios';

Android

if (stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"Android") )
	$device = 'android';

LG Mobile

if (stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"webOS"))
	$device = 'webOs';

December 15, 2016December 15, 2016

PHP: How to detect the browser currently used by the user?

Chrome

if (stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"Chrome"))
        $browser = 'Chrome';

Firefox

if (stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"Firefox"))
        $browser = 'Firefox';

Safari

if (stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"Safari"))
        $browser = 'Safari';

December 15, 2016December 15, 2016

JavaScript: How to detect the browser currently used by the user?

Opera

var isOpera = (!!window.opr && !!opr.addons) || !!window.opera || navigator.userAgent.indexOf(' OPR/') >= 0;

Firefox 1.0+

var isFirefox = typeof InstallTrigger !== 'undefined';

At least Safari 3+: “[object HTMLElementConstructor]”

var isSafari = Object.prototype.toString.call(window.HTMLElement).indexOf('Constructor') > 0;

Internet Explorer 6-11

var isIE = /*@cc_on!@*/false || !!document.documentMode;

Edge 20+

var isEdge = !isIE && !!window.StyleMedia;

Chrome 1+

var isChrome = !!window.chrome && !!window.chrome.webstore;

December 12, 2016December 15, 2016

Get the rest of URL except the domain name

Looking for a code to extract the rest of the URL except the domain name. Here it is:

$path = 'http://winnieverzosa.com/whatever/path/?query=something';
preg_match('/^[^#]*?:\/\/.*?\/(.*)$/', $path, $matches);
echo $mathces[1];

Output:
whatever/path/?query=something

December 9, 2016December 15, 2016

Check if an input is a string or a url

In this scenario, we are not checking if this is a valid url but we just want to differentiate if it is a string or a url.

var str = 'winnieverzosa.com'
isURL(str);
function isURL(str){
	if ( str.match(/.*\..*/) ){
		alert(str + ' is a URL');
	} else {
		alert(str + ' is NOT a URL');
	}
}

December 9, 2016December 9, 2016

jQuery Validate URL

function isUrlValid(url) {
    return /^(https?|s?ftp):\/\/(((([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(%[\da-f]{2})|[!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=]|:)*@)?(((\d|[1-9]\d|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.(\d|[1-9]\d|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.(\d|[1-9]\d|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.(\d|[1-9]\d|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5]))|((([a-z]|\d|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(([a-z]|\d|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])*([a-z]|\d|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])))\.)+(([a-z]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(([a-z]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])*([a-z]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])))\.?)(:\d*)?)(\/((([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(%[\da-f]{2})|[!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=]|:|@)+(\/(([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(%[\da-f]{2})|[!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=]|:|@)*)*)?)?(\?((([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(%[\da-f]{2})|[!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=]|:|@)|[\uE000-\uF8FF]|\/|\?)*)?(#((([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(%[\da-f]{2})|[!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=]|:|@)|\/|\?)*)?$/i.test(url);
}