Really Shiny
Really Shiny is now closed. To be fair, it’s been closed for ages, but now it’s really closed. For anyone looking for the scripts and tutorials I once posed there, the most popular ones can be found below, anything else is gone forever. Please note that I no longer maintain or support any of these scripts or tutorials, so if you need help, you can try emailing me, but I can’t guarantee anything. Some scripts have been superseded by better things, which are mentioned below where relevant.
Table Extractor JS_Extractor
JS_Extractor is now available.
The Old Table Extractor
Table extractor is a php class that can extract almost any table from any html document/page, and then convert that html table into a php array.
Download Table Extractor
Download Table Extractor Guide
Colour Tools Zend_Color
I’m currently working on a new proposal for the Zend Framework called Zend_Color, which allows you to do everything you could with Colour Tools, and a lot more, in an OOP fashion. There’s currently a working prototype of Zend_Color on the proposal page.
The Old Colour Tools
Colour Tools is a class that contains various functions for manipulating colours in PHP. It includes basic conversion functions, a gradient function, an invert function and a set of functions for comparing two colours for brightness and colour contrast, according to the W3C recommendations.
A Quick and Easy, Dynamic, flv (Flash Video) Player Tutorial
Download A Quick and Easy, Dynamic, flv (Flash Video) Player Tutorial
Download Supporting Files
PHP Dump
I no longer use PHP Dump, as it’s not easy to get all the information it should provide using a script, and PHPs built-in functions are faster. I would recommended using the var_dump function in PHP, which provides better information, and if used with the Xdebug extension, will dump the output in nice colours like PHP Dump did.
The Old PHP Dump
PHP Dump is an enhanced version of the var_dump PHP function. It can be used during debugging to quickly output and display many data types, including multi-dimensional arrays and MySQL result sets.