After Google increased their map prices significantly (by about 100x in my case) I had to set about finding alternatives. It turned out the DIY approach was far easier than I expected and is saving thousands of dollars every month. The end result we came up with looks professional with most people not noticing any […]
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Strip all but certain characters from a string in PHP (such as alphanumeric, numeric, etc…)
The #1 result in Google for stripping characters out of strings in PHP is awful and uses the deprecated ereg_replace function so lets make a new search result using preg_replace which is much better, faster and it is fully supported in PHP 5 and 7. Allow only alpha-numeric: Only numeric: Alpha-numeric with whitespace: The ^ […]