New VLD and translit releases
They're two little extension for very distinctive purposes. VLD is a tool for hard core PHP hackers that want to figure out what is going on in PHP's engine. This would be an extremely useful tool for students that want to work on the Google Summer of Code project to implement and finish "Ilia's" Optimizer .
The translit extension focuses on transliterating scripts into different representations. It contains many filters for different tasks. For example the "normalize_numbers" filter can convert "１２３４５６７８９０" into "1234567890" with the following script:
<?php
$input = "１２３４５６７８９０";
var_dump(transliterate(
$input,
array('normalize_numbers'),
'utf-8', 'ascii'));
?>
But many other filters exist, such as converting Chinese text (大平矿难死者增至66人) to pinyin (dapingkuangnansǐzhezengzhi66ren) or stripping out accents (á -> a )and converting ligatures (© -> (c), æ -> ae) etc. The translit extension is also used on this website to create "nice" urls with the following code:
$blurp['url'] = transliterate($blurp['title'],
array(
'cyrillic_transliterate', 'lowercase_latin',
'normalize_ligature', 'diacritical_remove',
'normalize_punctuation', 'remove_punctuation',
'spaces_to_underscore', 'compact_underscores'),
'utf8', 'us-ascii');
Both extensions are available through PECL and installable like:
pecl install vld pecl install translit
Comments
there's also a TRANSLIT option in the iconv() function but to work, you need to set a correct locale.
This piece of code seems familiar, might have seen it somewhere yesterday ;)
Thanks for this new release Derick.
@Damien: I've never found that to work reliable... and we all know that POSIX locales suck anyway, as they're different on every system out there.
Life Line
I've finished reading This Way Up. It's about maps, that went wrong.
It's a good read, but htyerr were several chapters that were written in a novel way (as a video transcript, a series of letters), and I found distracting from the a tail content. It'll have worked better in a produced video.
No mention of @openstreetmap though :-(
Updated a bench
Created a tree; Updated 3 humps and a waste_basket
The Early Cormorant Catches the Eel
Sorry, not the best photo! But I caught this Cormorant catching this large eel when looking for Bank Swallows, right next to Eel Pie Island in the Thames.
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Updated an estate_agent office
I went to my nieces' birthday party yesterday.
The theme was pink, and that included all the food, mostly died with beet root.
Shock and horror this morning when doing number two. Not only was my turd dark red, it was also glittering at me. Apparently the carrot cake had edible glitter...
So now I know what's worse than glitter.
😂 ✨ 💩 🟣Long-Tailed Tit on a Branch with Lichen
I've been spending some time in random London local nature reserves.
Sitting and listening, and in fifteen minutes you spot countless species.
This one was in Ham Lands Local Nature Reserve near Teddington.
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A Colourful Mandarin
In The Long Water in Kensington Palace Gardens, London.
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Created 7 benches
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Created a bench
I walked 7.3km in 2h28m39s
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Fixed website
fix typo
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The Yellow Eye
A blue heron's head, with its very yellow stare-y eye.
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Created a bicycle_parking and a crossing
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