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Floating Point Comparisons In PHP and Javascript

September 14th, 2007 · 4 Comments

A simple function to ease your floating point comparison headaches. Implemented in PHP and Javascript. Compare floating point numbers safely like this: moneycomp($income,’>',$debt) return ‘Happy’; Escape the plague of the .000000001!

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Scraping Links With PHP

August 11th, 2007 · 60 Comments

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In this tutorial I will show you how to build a PHP script that will scrape links from a web page. I also discuss the legal issues involved with scraping website content.

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