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Whilst I’m not a massive fan of John o’ Groats as a place to visit, the shore there certainly makes for a good photo!

This is easily the best function I’ve used for validating e-mail addresses in my PHP scripts and applications. function is_valid_email($email) { $qtext = ‘[^\x0d\x22\x5c\x80-\xff]’; $dtext = ‘[^\x0d\x5b-\x5d\x80-\xff]’; $atom = ‘[^\x00-\x20\x22\x28\x29\x2c\x2e\x3a-\x3c\x3e\x40\x5b-\x5d\x7f-\xff]+’; $quoted_pair = ‘\x5c[\x00-\x7f]’; $domain_literal = “\x5b($dtext|$quoted_pair)*\x5d”; $quoted_string = “\x22($qtext|$quoted_pair)*\x22”; $domain_ref = $atom; $sub_domain = “($domain_ref|$domain_literal)”; $word = “($atom|$quoted_string)”; …
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To add recent posts navigation to your WordPress blog, simple add the following code to sidebar.php. <h2>Recent Posts</h2> <nav id=”navigation-recent”> <ul> <?php $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts(5); foreach( $recent_posts as $recent ){ $date = date(“M d, Y”,strtotime($recent[“post_date”])); echo ‘<li><a href=”‘ . get_permalink($recent[“ID”]) . ‘” title=”Look ‘.$recent[“post_title”].'” >’ . $recent[“post_title”].'</a> ‘.$date.'</li>’; …
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