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Validate a UK postcode

Published on June 5, 2007 in Code snippets and PHP. 0 Comments

You’ve probably seen this before, if not a thousand times, but here’s a simple function to check the format of a UK postcode.

function valid_uk_postcode($postcode)
{
    return (preg_match('/^([A-PR-UWYZ][A-HK-Y0-9][AEHMNPRTVXY0-9]?[ABEHMNPRVWXY0-9]? {0,2}[0-9][ABD-HJLN-UW-Z]{2}|GIR 0AA)$/i', $postcode)) ?
        true : false;
}

HTTP status codes

Published on March 20, 2007 in PHP. 0 Comments

Quite often I find myself having to send a HTTP status code in the PHP I’m writing. This typically comes down to usually a ‘Forbidden’, ‘No Content’ or a redirect. The trouble is, I usually can’t remember the exact code of text used for the slightly more obscure codes, or at least the ones I don’t use often… Well, even for the ones I use often, if truth be told!

So I put them all in the following function which you may find useful, too.

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String encoding for HTML

Published on March 20, 2007 in PHP. 0 Comments

I find this a handy function to encompass a number of different string encoding routines. It allows you to do entity encoding (ÿ), hex (á), html (&aecute;), or url encoding (%E1).

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CafePress random product update

Published on February 27, 2007 in PHP and Updates. 0 Comments

A small update is required to the CafePress box class – the one that shows a random product from your CafePress store. This is needed because there have been some additional updates to the HTML on the CafePress side, so the regular expression in the class needs updating. It’s very easy; just change line 174 for the following:

$this->cpPattern = '.*?(.*?)\$([^< ]*)';