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This is the personal web site of Chris Petersen from Melbourne Australia. Here you will find information about me, things I am interested in, and links to other sites and my friends. You can get in contact with me by sending me e-mail or interacting with my blog.
I work primarily as an Internet Developer so I will be using this site to provide information on Internet technologies and links to useful resources.
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Last updated: Monday 29th 2009f June 2009 03:25:01 PM
This is the blog of Chris Petersen from peeto.net.
I need to vent
Monday 29th 2009f June 2009 03:25:01 PM
Grr, f***, sh**, a** f***! I am setting up one of my PHP CMS's and was having trouble with non-ASCII characters. After pulling my hair out and endless googling I found the problem, htmlentities(). It turns out that htmlentities() is set to ISO-8859-1 by default and needs a specific parameter to be UTF-8.
I found this:
/**
* Encodes HTML safely for UTF-8. Use instead of htmlentities.
*
* @param string $var
* @return string
*/
function html_encode($var)
{
return htmlentities($var, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8') ;
}
Here:
http://developer.loftdigital.com/blog/php-utf-8-cheatsheet
Coco Contacts
Thursday 24th 2008f July 2008 10:39:43 AM
A friend of mine has created this site that sells freaking cool contact lenses. I've seen fashion / colored contacts before but Coco Contacts has a huge range of really cool contacts that I've never seen before such as soccer balls and smiley faces.
Persoanlly I'd like to get some for the next Halloween / StarWars / cross-dressing party I attend.
$ dec[1]des
Monday 26th 2007f November 2007 05:46:26 PM
Australia is having a federal election, I've been watching too much Chasers, and it's freakin hard to blog on a Wii. Seriously, one of the apparent big election issues has been broadband access in Australia. Being the eve of the election, I figure it couldn't be a better time to vent my thoughts on broadband Internet.
Wii For Mii
Monday 26th 2007f November 2007 04:26:41 PM
I got myself a Wii a while back and have now got the Internet Channel. Please e-mail me if you want to swap Mii's with me. My Wii ID is 7446 5474 7096 6442. If you haven't already, download the new Mii Contest Channel as it's the easiest way to get some extra (and good) Mii's.
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