Yet another blog about PHP, HTML and CSS

If you use the so called, German date format (day of month. month. year) you may have wondered how to achieve it with Smarty – without the leading zeroes for month.
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In the course of executing a program you need to report errors / success messages to the user. But you don’t want to mix your code with HTML, right? (A quick explanation on separating presentation from business / data logic.)

So here’s what I use:
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Ever needed to send someone a piece of code in an e-mail to illustrate your thinking?

Pastebin does just that. You paste your code, choose what language you use to get the right syntax highlighting and post it.

Then your colleague makes his changes and posts them back. With one click you can see his version, your version and the difference, just like in this example:

http://pastebin.com/pastebin.php?diff=f3bd4dcb6