Alex Briffett - PHP Code Snippets

Regular Expressions

Regular Expressions & HTML Tags

How to find HTML tags using regexp and PHP

Oracle

Update Oracle CLOB Field

CLOB data in Oracle may require special code for updates especially where the data is particularly long.

Functions

Maintain Drop Down State

A simple function to maintain the state of HTML drop down boxes (selects). Most other form fields can maintain their states using $_POST variables.

MySQL

MySQL Search Engine

Create a Search Engine using MySQL

Briffett.net Music Site

Buy & Download MP3 Tunes

briffett.net I wrote the Briffett.net site as an experiment. It uses OSCommerce and links to 2Checkout to verify credit card details or PayPal. Once you have paid you can download the high-quality MP3. If you don't want to buy anything you can preview the tune live on the site.

Sampletracks.com Loops

Download loops for free

Sampletracks Sampletracks.com is a site requiring registration and account activation but lets you download free loops for making your own tunes and web loops which are snippets of full tunes useful for looping on presentations, web sites or software.