Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

29 Aug 2005

Currency convertor

I discovered that the European Central Bank (ECB) has a page with Euro foreign exchange rates. I thought it would be a n...
20 Aug 2005

Telnet server

A telnet server that writes the content of a file to it’s clients: banner.txt.
20 Aug 2005

Tests if $host is a proxy server

Code: php/proxytester.txt
29 Jul 2005

Generating JavaScript strings

Well, I’ve always experienced the generating JavaScript strings with PHP as a PITA. An example, which requires you...
25 Jul 2005

value-of in an attribute

There were days that i did not like XSL because it seemed to be impossible to insert a value inside an attribute. For ex...
24 Jul 2005

Read from STDIN without echoing the input back

Today i was looking for a way to read passwords from a PHP-CLI script. So it was important the password didn’t app...
10 Jul 2005

Scriptable browser

Last couple of days i have been trying out Simple Test. It allowed me stop stop echo and print_r variables all over the ...
06 Jul 2005

GNU text utilities

More and more i seem to recieve requests from people that need to manipulate some text files. And they do not feel like ...
06 Jul 2005

I am the manual

I found this in my inbox on my favorite PHP forum, DevNetwork Hi timvw, you’ve won an award! I Am The Manual Award...
04 May 2005

Exploring the FTP functions

I am still drowning in the work, and exams are coming close too, but i decided to blog something about the FTP functions...