Miscellaneous Coding: Webcoding

Some snippets and small programms, that may be of use for someone or may not :)...

Hide Email

If your address is on the internet, you can be sure that automatic spiders will get them and you will be pressed on a DVD with 999'999'999 other poor addresses. Sooner or later you will get unsolicited advertising mails (spam) in incredible masses. This class tries to hide the address in 2 ways.

NHL Fantasy-League Excel Converter

This bit of code - written in PHP - fetches the skaters and goalies' statistics from USA-Today and exports them as Excel file. These statistics are needed in fantasy leagues and the like.

PHP-UWA Widget Library

The PHP-UWA library allows a facilated use of UWA-Widgets with PHP. It gives you access to the preferences and some convenience-functions. In theory, it should work with every UWA-compliant widget (even the broken ones which use html in the JS-Parts or the body). Mini-Apis do sometimes work too. An example is included.

PsycoXPath PHP XPath Laboratory

With this piece of php code, you can test XPath expressions on your XML files. It's written in PHP and uses the DOM extension. It can handle queries for elements, attributes and evaluations like count().
See the demosite.

tel.search.ch UWA-Widget

This widget is a heavy Web-2.0ized piece of code: It uses the API of tel.search.ch and map.search.ch. It allows to search for an address and shows the list, details and a map inline in this widget. There is code to translate the ui and a PHP-proxy that translates the XML-Answers from ISO 8859-1 to UTF-8. Oh how I love the encodings. You can add this widget easily to the following services: