Tag: php

  • How To Round Unixtime To Midnight

    This might be pretty obvious to anyone with basic math skills. It took me a few minutes to figure out, so I thought I’d share with the world. To round a unix timestamp to the previous midnight (UTC) use the following function: function unixtime_round_to_midnight ($t) { return $t – ($t%86400); } Thanks to Ian for…


  • Top 5%

    According to Kevin Rose (of digg and diggnation fame) I am in the top 5% of php developers. In the last episode of This Week in Tech, he mentioned that 95% of the resumes he receives for digg.com positions are from developers who haven’t even worked on a site that gets 1 million uniques, let…


  • TinyMy, Quick and Dirty MySQL Shell

    Stumbled across a tiny mysql shell – appropriately named ‘tinymy’ – a few months ago. It’s quite a useful little bit of PHP code. Very lightweight and function interface and shell for MySQL. I use it whenever I need to verify the contents of a database table or test a couple of queries but don’t…