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An extremely simple solution to a surprisingly elusive problem. To perfectly center a DIV on an HTML page simply use the following approach.
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Here some simple tips to help with manipulating text, the simplest of things can be the most valuable.

First, if you only want to pull one character from a string, it’s a lot easier to use the following:

 $string = 'puppy';
 echo $string[0]; // p
 echo $string[1]; // u
 echo $string[2]; // p ...and so on

And here’s the basic concept behind the substr() function:

substr($string, start # [, length #])

– length is in brackets because it’s optional

Now let’s use this function to get a better idea of what it does.

 $string = 'categories';
 echo substr($string, 0); // 'categories' because we asked to start at the first character (which is 0 from the first example above) and goes right until end of string
 echo substr($string, 3); // 'egories' because started at the third character in the string and went to the end
 echo substr($string, -1); // 's' this is different from above because it starts at the end and goes left that number of characters
 echo substr($string, -3); // 'ies'

echo substr($string,0,-1); // 'categorie' strips last letter off
 echo substr($string,3,4); // 'egor' - starts at the fourth character (remember 0 is the first) and shows 4 characters total (length)
 echo substr($string,1,3); // 'ate' - starts at the second character and shows 3 characters total (length)
 echo substr($string,1,-2); // 'ategori' because we started at the second character and also stripped off the last two with the "-2"
 echo substr($string,-3,-2); // 'i' since we're starting from the third character from the left and then are stripping off two characters from that with the "-2"

I sometimes use this if I only want to display a preview description rather than showing the whole large description.

$text = 'Great for home, school or travel. Wonderful gift item!';
 echo substr($text,0,25).'...'; // displays "Great for home, school or..."

So it turns out there is no built in function to add a key and value to the start of an array. There is;

array_unshift() - Prepend one or more elements to the beginning of an array.

However, this will only add a value. So the method we use is to create a new array with the key and value you wish to add to another and use;

array_combine — Creates an array by using one array for keys and another for its values.

For example:

$existingArray = array("fred" => "orange", "john" => "IsaSpy");
$array['our_key'] = "our_value";

$newArray = array_combine($existingArray, $array);

print_r($newArray);

//boom

It really helps develop amazing code.

Minecraft is simply amazing.

Now im not a gamer and never intend to be, however, Minecraft is just awesome and is soo much fun ^^

Simply put, your a guy, in a world, where you can do anything you wish. The only game objective it to live your life.

You can build buildings, mine for better materials to build with or use them in your every day life, fight monsters at night (Creepers are simply epic), farm, invent, explore, adventure, you name it you can do it in Minecraft!

One of the better things about Minecraft is its ability to use different themes for your worlds called ‘texture packs’ and after much usage and research here are my favourite ones (in no particular order)…

Quandary

NatureCraft

ShreeyamaCraft

Cube Craft

SexyCraft

Bamt4st1c

Wow, really now. I didn’t think it was possible for an organization/website to be so perfect. Twitters new and updated website is truly a triumph. Beauty and Simplicity @HozzaMedia

I have now discovered a few tips and tricks to fend off those bad bots, crawlers, harvesters, you name it.

First of all you need to create yourself a simple blocklist of IP’s, one IP per line, IP’s you dont want visiting your site. (hopefully HozzaMedia will be publishing our own one for public use soon)

123.567.678.9
657.387.93.2
1.1.1.14
etc

The PHP needs to be something simple like a script that checks if the users IP is in the text file and if it is, display a “No Entry Error”. Originally my script only displayed a HTML page with text along the lines of “Your IP address has been blocked from our network due to suspicious activity, you are being monitored. Continue reading

Well, the api is pretty straight forward.  It was found in the Currency Conversion gadget from iGoogle by http://oohhyeah.blogspot.com/2009/01/google-currency-conversion-api.html

Here is the example:
http://www.google.com/ig/calculator?hl=en&q=100EUR%3D%3FGBP

And the resposnse looks like this:
{lhs: “100 Euros”,rhs: “191.745037 British pounds”,display: “DISPLAY_FULL_PAGE”,error: “”,icc: true}

Heres how to do it in PHP

$amount = "100";

$from_Currency = "EUR";

$googleResponce = file_get_contents('http://www.google.com/ig/calculator?hl=en&q=' . $amount . $from_Currency . '%3D%3FGBP');

$googleResponce = explode(',', $googleResponce);

$numberInGBP = number_format(round(trim(str_ireplace(array('rhs: "', ' British pounds"'), '', $googleResponce[1])), 2), 2);

echo $numberInGBP;