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Nested output buffers

You can nest output buffers and fetch the level for them to provide different content using the ob_get_level() function. <?php $i = 1; $output = null; while( $i <= 5 ) { // Each loop, creates a new output buffering `level` ob_start(); print "Current nest level: &quo...

PHP • Output Buffering

Using Output buffer to store contents in a file, useful for reports, invoices etc

<?php ob_start(); ?> <html> <head> <title>Example invoice</title> </head> <body> <h1>Invoice #0000</h1> <h2>Cost: &pound;15,000</h2> ... </body> </html> <?php...

PHP • Output Buffering

Ignore files that have already been committed to a Git repository

If you have already added a file to your Git repository and now want to stop tracking it (so that it won't be present in future commits), you can remove it from the index: git rm --cached <file> This will remove the file from the repository and prevent further changes from being tracked by...

Git • Ignoring Files and Folders

Strikethrough

To create strike-through text, surround the text with ~~double tildes~~. Note: on StackExchange this formatting isn't included. Instead use the html tag <s>text</s>. (In chat you can use ---three hyphens---.)

Markdown • Text Formatting

General Pattern that does most commonly asked about tasks

The following is how to properly use the java.util.Scanner class to interactively read user input from System.in correctly( sometimes referred to as stdin, especially in C, C++ and other languages as well as in Unix and Linux). It idiomatically demonstrates the most common things that are requested ...

Java Language • Scanner

Getting the First Page in Ruby

This Ruby example uses Mechanize, a library to automate web interactions. client_id is an OAuth client_id. game is the game directory to list. require 'mechanize' master_agent = Mechanize.new client_id = "123" game = "Minecraft" url = "https://api.twitch.tv/kraken...

twitch • Lists of Streamers by Game

Syntax highlighting (StackExchange)

On StackExchange sites, code snippets may provide optional syntax highlighting. On sites like Stack Overflow the default language is derived from the tags used in the associated question (if applicable). In addition, a code snippet's syntax highlighting language may also be defined by adding an HTML...

Markdown • Code

Numbered lists

1. Lists 2. Can be 3. Numbered Lists Can be Numbered Note that the numbers themselves are ignored: 1. This is the first item 5. This is the fifth item 7. This is the seventh item This is the first item This is the fifth item This is the seventh item However, the firs...

Markdown • Creating Lists

Start with a Muted Player

twitch • Interactive Embed Video Player

Precondition and Postcondition

One use case for assertion is precondition and postcondition. This can be very useful to maintain invariant and design by contract. For a example a length is always zero or positive so this function must return a zero or positive value. #include <stdio.h> /* Uncomment to disable `assert()`...

C Language • Assertion

Creating and reading stacktraces

When an exception object is created (i.e. when you new it), the Throwable constructor captures information about the context in which the exception was created. Later on, this information can be output in the form of a stacktrace, which can be used to help diagnose the problem that caused the excep...

Java Language • Exceptions and exception handling

Joining array elements in a string

To join all of an array's elements into a string, you can use the join method: console.log(["Hello", " ", "world"].join("")); // "Hello world" console.log([1, 800, 555, 1234].join("-")); // "1-800-555-1234" As you can see in ...

JavaScript • Arrays

Convert formatted string representation of date to Date object

This method can be used to convert a formatted string representation of a date into a Date object. /** * Parses the date using the given format. * * @param formattedDate the formatted date string * @param dateFormat the date format which was used to create the string. ...

Java Language • Date Class

Static Assertion

C11 Static assertions are used to check if a condition is true when the code is compiled. If it isn't, the compiler is required to issue an error message and stop the compiling process. A static assertion is one that is checked at compile time, not run time. The condition must be a constant expres...

C Language • Assertion

Executing commands against a found file

Sometimes we will need to run commands against a lot of files. This can be done using xargs. find . -type d -print | xargs -r chmod 770 The above command will recursively find all directories (-type d) relative to . (which is your current working directory), and execute chmod 770 on them. The -...

Bash • Find

Counting total number of documents in last 5 minutes

lscount returns a time bucketed count of matching documents in the LogStash index, according to the specified filter. A trivial use of this would be to check how many documents in total have been received in the 5 minutes, and alert if it is below a certain threshold. A Bosun alert for this might ...

Bosun • lscount

A basic unit test

At its simplest, a unit test consists of three stages: Prepare the environment for the test Execute the code to be tested Validate the expected behaviour matches the observed behaviour These three stages are often called 'Arrange-Act-Assert', or 'Given-When-Then'. Below is example in C# tha...

unit-testing • Getting started with unit-testing

Tuples as the Return Value of Functions

Functions can return tuples: func tupleReturner() -> (Int, String) { return (3, "Hello") } let myTuple = tupleReturner() print(myTuple.0) // 3 print(myTuple.1) // "Hello" If you assign parameter names, they can be used from the return value: func tupleReturner(...

Swift Language • Tuples

Testing Sandbox Webhooks with ngrok and Express (Node)

In this example we're going to look at testing webhook notifications in sandbox, using ngrok to provide a tunnel for our Node HTTP listener, running on localhost, to the internet. For this example, we're going to be using Node to set up notification webhooks for payment events (such as a payment bei...

PayPal • Webhooks

Writing bytes to an OutputStream

Writing bytes to an OutputStream one byte at a time OutputStream stream = object.getOutputStream(); byte b = 0x00; stream.write( b ); Writing a byte array byte[] bytes = new byte[] { 0x00, 0x00 }; stream.write( bytes ); Writing a section of a byte array int offset = 1; int length = ...

Java Language • InputStreams and OutputStreams