CakePHP guiListTree

If you haven’t ever heard of CakePHP, you do not know what you are missing. CakePHP is a MVC framework that is not only simple to use, but extremely powerful. While working with this framework, I wanted to use the YUI (Yahoo User Interface) to add some features. In the process of trying to work out drag and drop, I discovered the guiListTree in the Html->Helper. But how are you suppose to structure the data you send to the function to have it spit out the unordered list correctly?
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Adding SVN Information to File Headers

(see the revised edition of this post => http://blogchuck.com/2009/09/adding-svn-headers-revisited/ )

In the past as I have examined open source php applications, I have noticed the comments in the top of the files contain SVN information about the file. At first, I thought that maybe the developers added the information to the top of each file manually. I soon discovered that would be a rediculous requirement to put on the coders. A bunch of unnecessary red tape from their perspective. So I began to research. It didn’t take long to find the answers I was looking for.
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Phone and Email REGEX for PHP

I, and a few other developers I work with, looked the Internet over for a good REGEX that will pull a valid phone number from HTML content. The challenge is the many different ways a phone number can be formated. (ie. 123-456-7890, 123.456.7890, 1(123)456-7890, etc.)

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