Code Snippets by Hawkee

Highlight Keywords on Page with jQuery

This will take a string of keywords and wrap a highlight span around each word. It takes two inputs: keywords and element: keywords: The keywords to be highlighted. element: Where we..

Using code tags and jQuery to dynamically load CodeMirror Instances

This uses jQuery to convert an HTML string containing <code> tags into language specific

Replace Newlines in String Except Within Certain Tags

This will run nl2br on everything inside a string except for what is between the opening and closing tags. For example you can add <br>'s to a comment that contains

Compiling SphinxSE against mySQL 5.5

These are the steps necessary to compile the SphinxSE plugin for mySQL 5.5. This varies slightly from the 5.1 method because you don't use the ./configure command. Before you had to..

Tables sorted by size in Megabytes

This is a very handy query that sorts your tables by their physical size in megabytes. Just be sure to edit the query to include the database name.

Minecraft Random Item Game Plugin using rcon

This is a command line script that interfaces with Minecraft via rcon. It gives all the players on your server a chance to win a random item by typing "join". Here are the different..

Clean URLs with Apache mod_rewrite and PHP

This is an easy to maintain method for creating clean urls without any file extensions. It's very good for hiding your underlying programming language and offers a more user friendly experience...

Visualize mySQL row counts with Google Charts

Ever wonder how many posts were made over the past few days or months? This is a very simple data visualization tool that shows you exactly how many. To set it up you need to add your..

Autocomplete Server-side Component with mySQL and JSON results using Express.js

This is the server side component to my

Scroll Append - Inifinite/Endless Scroll

This will automatically append the next page of results as you continue to scroll down a page. Features: - Define a number of pages to append before pausing with a "Show More"..

Find the Total number or rows with a Limit

This is a very handy command to avoid running the same query twice. It will tell you how many total rows there are when you only need a handful. You need to run the second query immediately..

Style Uploadify Browse Files Button with CSS

This will allow you to style the Uploadify upload button. Normally this button is generated through the flash object, so it's a bit tricky replacing it with a CSS button. You have to use..

Triggered @mention Autocomplete like Facebook, Twitter & Google+

This widget lets you search for users to @mention in your posts. It works very much like Facebook and Google+ in that it supports users with spaces in their name. It writes to a hidden..

Minutes, Hours, Days from now, Time ago in words

This will take the date and time posted of an object in mySQL and convert it to a human readable form through PHP. It has 3 different modes of displaying the age: - The number of hours..

Pagination Function - Rounded Gradient Buttons

This function will return a list of page numbers similar to the Google search results style. It will currently show up to 15 page numbers at a time and this value can be adjusted within..

mySQL Slow Query Log Email Monitor

This is a very useful script for monitoring mySQL load on a server. It will check your mySQL slow query log file and email the contents to you. It also appends the size of the file to..

CSV to mySQL - Create Table and Insert Data

This will take a CSV file, create a table, and insert the data. The file needs to have a header row indicating the field names. Once it's created it uses a simple load data infile call...

Web Search & Regular Expression Example

This code will search the

De-Pluralize a String

This is a very short and simple snippet that will take a given string, $string, and if it is plural the 's' will be removed from the $string.

Extract Search Query from Google HTTP Referer

This will extract the search query from a Google search. It doesn't specifically look for Google in the referer so it may capture more than just Google searches. You can use this information..

Toggle All Checkboxes

This is a simple Javascript snippet that lets you toggle a group of checkboxes on or off at the same time. This is the format for your HTML form:

Javascript Visibility Toggle

This is a very simple Javascript toggle that'll show or hide a div depending on its current state. Here is the HTML code:

Strip non-ASCII characters from a String

This is a little snippet that will remove any non-ASCII characters from a string.

"Sort by" Box for Lists

This code produces a sort box for any number of arbitrary criteria on any type of data you have in your database. For this particular example we've got a product sort where users can sort..

Dynamic Title and Meta Tags

This is a very simple PHP snippet that will set $title, $meta_keywords and $meta_description for use in your page header. You'll need to create meta_tags.txt which will use this format: page_name.html|page..