Ultimo

Can't seem to find this but I've been using it a lot lately:

<?php
$ultimo = array(
    "description" => "Year, month, first and last days for last month",
    "year" => date("Y", strtotime("-1 months")),
    "month" => date("m", strtotime("-1 months")),
    "first" => date("d", mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m")-1, 1, date("Y"))),
    "last" => date("d", mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m"), 0, date("Y")))
);
?>

PHP in_array test (checking for an array in an array or array)

This pleased me no end:

<?php
    // Our original array
    $things = array(
        array(
            "One" => 1,
            "Two" => 2,
            "Three" => 3
        ),
        array(
            "Four" => 4,
            "Five" => 5,
            "Six" => 6
        )
    );
    // Isn't it lovely
    var_dump($things);
    // An array which isn't in our array
    $thing3 = array(
        "Seven" => 7,
        "Eight" => 8,
        "Nine" => 9
    );
    var_dump(in_array($thing3, $things)); // boolean false
    // An array which is in our array
    $thing1 = array(
        "One" => 1,
        "Two" => 2,
        "Three" => 3
    );
    var_dump(in_array($thing1, $things)); // boolean true
    // An array which is in our array but is in the wrong order
    $thing2 = array(
        "Six" => 6,
        "Five" => 5,
        "Four" => 4
    );
    var_dump(in_array($thing2, $things)); // boolean true
?>

Can't 'ave too many bits of paper...

...except you can when you're used to living afloat where paper has a tendency to get wet and rot and so you want everything online!

Score from Monday

Name: Katrina Myers
Date: 30 June 2014
Recurve Bow
Distance: 12yds

						ET							ET	Doz
09	09	08	04	10	09	49	07	06	06	06	06	04	35	84
09	08	06	06	09	07	45	04	03	09	08	08	06	38	83
RT														167

Name: Dominic Myers
Date: 30 June 2014
Recurve Bow
Distance: 12yds

						ET							ET	Doz
10	10	08	06	10	09	53	09	06	10	10	09	09	53	106
10	09	09	08	10	10	56	09	10	10	09	09	08	55	111
RT														217

Thank you Witchford Archers

So very proud!

This came via email today and I couldn't be more pleased! +Ash has worked like a dog since last Summer and has finished secondary education! WOW!

I've got to hand it to him (and +Katrina) for all the hard work they've put in. Well done the two of you!

Javascript: Iteration speed test ($.grep for teh win!)

So +Mehdi Rahman and I were trying to work out which was fastest... turns out $.grep wins and the for loop and the $.each perform differently on Chrome and FireFox. Quite a lot differently!

var start = new Date().getTime();
for (b = 0; b < 50000; ++b) {
 var a = ["1","2","1","2","1","2","1","2","1","2"];
 for(var i = 0; i < a.length; i++){
  if(a[i] === "1"){
   a.splice(i, 1);
  }
 }
}
var end = new Date().getTime();
var time = end - start;
alert('Execution time: ' + time);

var start = new Date().getTime();
for (b = 0; b < 50000; ++b) {
 var a = ["1","2","1","2","1","2","1","2","1","2"];
 $.each(a, function(k, v){
  if(v){
   if(v === "1"){
    a.splice(k, 1);
   }
  }else{
   return false
  }
 });
}
var end = new Date().getTime();
var time = end - start;
alert('Execution time: ' + time);

var start = new Date().getTime();
for (b = 0; b < 50000; ++b) {
 var a = ["1","2","1","2","1","2","1","2","1","2"];
 $.grep(a, function( n, i ) {
  return ( n !== "1" );
 });
}
var end = new Date().getTime();
var time = end - start;
alert('Execution time: ' + time);

Javascript: Convert text to HTML Number

I needed to display a JSON object on screen within a Tooltipster tooltip and I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out how to so it... Then I came across this lovely post. Shamelessly stealing the process I wrote my own as, for some reason, I prefer HTML Numbers rather than unicode:

function preJSON(json){
    var pre = "<pre>";
    var erp = "</pre>";
    var br = "<br />";
    var quote = '"';
    var space = " ";
    var jsonString = JSON.stringify(json, undefined, 2).replace(/"/g, toHTMLNumber(quote)).replace(/\n\r?/g, toHTMLNumber(br)).replace(/ /g, toHTMLNumber(space));
    return toHTMLNumber(pre) + jsonString + toHTMLNumber(erp);
    function toHTMLNumber(theString){
        var HTMLNumberString = '';
        for (var i=0; i < theString.length; i++) {
            var theHTMLNumber = theString.charCodeAt(i).toString(10).toUpperCase();
            theHTMLNumber = '&#' + theHTMLNumber + ';';
            HTMLNumberString += theHTMLNumber;
        }
        return HTMLNumberString;
    }
}

And then I call tooltipster with "contentAsHTML": true and it works a treat.