Monthly Archives: September 2008
HOWTO get the real host name of your server in PHP
In PHP, to get the name of the web server, you can print $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]. However, if you use round-robin DNS or a load balancer, this will give you the name Apache thinks your machine is. What if you want the … Continue reading
JavaScript: how to unescape HTML entities
I was searching the web for JavaScript HTML entity unescaping code. I found lots of really bad ideas. Sound familiar? Some were quite complicated. It looked like the scriptaculous guys had the right idea. However, all I could find was … Continue reading