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In HTML you may find that the dash / hyphen character is a breakable character and if you are attempting to create a region where line breaking is not desired you may need a non-breakable space character. Here it is: ‑

A while back I wrote an article on Removing Images from a WordPress Post. Sebastian asked an interesting question; he wanted to remove everything but the images. This is actually pretty straightforward; here is how you do it:   . . . <?php $beforeEachImage = "<div>"; $afterEachImage = "</div>"; preg_match_all("/(<img [^>]*>)/",get_the_content(),$matches,PREG_PATTERN_ORDER); for( $i=0; isset($matches[1]) && [...]

Version 1.6 of Browser.php has been released with a lot of updates: http://chrisschuld.com/projects/browser-php-detecting-a-users-browser-from-php/

For those of you who detect Opera 10′s user agent, the Opera team has provide some “fun” for all of us. In my Browser project I started getting feedback that it was broken. At the 10,000′ level, it was defintely broken because the Browser project was returning version 9.8 for Opera version 10. This is [...]

From time to time I had have to move one installation of WordPress from one domain (let’s call it domain A) to a new domain (let’s call it domain B). Because WordPress embeds the domain all over the data schema (not faulting; simply disclosing) you have to make a lot of dB changes for the [...]

In the Browser.php project John pointed out (in the comments) a terrible typo in the source. I imagine no one has encountered this before as it only effects v1 or v1.5 of Internet Explorer. Typo updated and version 1.5 of Browser.php released: http://chrisschuld.com/projects/browser-php-detecting-a-users-browser-from-php/

A while back I wrote a semi-popular post on removing images from a WordPress post — today I am revisiting it. The original solution used the_content() and the output buffer to remove the images out of the post. Now that I have used WordPress a bit longer and candidly had to use the solution again [...]

I released v1.4 of the Browser.php project today to address a few features suggested by readers. This new release adds support for GoogleBot, Yahoo! Slurp, and the W3C Validator. Check out version 1.4: http://chrisschuld.com/projects/browser-php-detecting-a-users-browser-from-php/

Based on a comment on the Browser.php page I added support for the iPod today. I opted to place both the iPhone and iPod as browsers even though they are likely using the same instance of Safari. Additionally I added support for the iPod and iPhone as platforms. Thanks for the comments; enjoy!

The browser detection project in php (Browser.php) has been updated to version 1.2 based on suggestions I received in the comments. The new version is available for download in the project pages. Thanks to all those who have emailed and commented on the script.