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July 2008

Toolbar Junkies

One of my clients was buying Stumble traffic and as soon as he stopped doing it, Alexa rank for his site dropped by 1000s.
We think this is because users with Stumble toolbar tend to have Alexa toolbar too. (and probably other toolbars)
:)

Toolbar Junkies
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Accessing single character inside PHP strings

In PHP5 you don’t do it like

$char = $string{2};

Do it like:

$char = $string[2];

The curly braces syntax is deprecated!

Accessing single character inside PHP strings
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Generating an array of months

Here is a nice way of doing this:

for( $i = 0; $i < 12; $i++ ) {
    $retval[ $i ] =
       date('M', strtotime('Jan +' .$i .' month'));
}

The real power of this is when you put it in a function like this:

function get_months($format) {
   $retval = array();
   for( $i = 0; $i < 12; $i++ ) {
      $retval[ $i ] =
         date($format, strtotime('Jan +' .$i .' month'));
    }
   return $retval;
}

And calling it like this:

$list_of_months_short_text = get_months('M');
$list_of_months_full_text  = get_months('F');
Generating an array of months
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