Daniel0

error_reporting(E_ALL); would be a good idea. You would want to catch those E_NOTICEs as well.

If they gave you a problem to solve as part of your interviewing process, it's because they want to asses your skills, not ours.

You didn't even bother rephrasing it. You just copied the problem in. We're not stupid. A lot of people here have been doing a lot of homework over many years so they are able to recognize homework when they see it. There is a reason why students are assigned homework. It's because they are supposed to learn from solving the problem.

You can also use things like Lucene or Sphinx.

Latin-1 can display à and ö just fine. Strictly speaking there is no need for UTF-8 if you restrict yourself to Eastern European languages. The only requirement is that your character set of choice has to be consistent throughout the entire system.

Maybe it's time for you to upgrade your OS. Windows has had a desktop application for Windows update since Windows Vista which became RTM about three years ago.

Have a look at this: http://vim.wikia.com/

While it's good to see that it's improving, I'm not overly impressed. It's still way behind its competition, and the competition keeps going on as well. It's not like they'll wait for IE to catch up. By the time IE9 is released FF, Opera, Chrome etc. will also have released new versions.

Just use the correct character set. If you do that you won't have to convert these to HTML entities.

There is a GUI version for it. It's called GVim.

There is also a vim plugin for Eclipse.

Mine would be Zend Studio, NetBeans and vim (in no particular order).

Okay. New poll: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,277416.0.html

This is a continuation of this topic: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,54859.0.html

Just check the length and don't add more if the length is 10.

Version Control System.

Yeah it is. I didn't see your post. Sorry.

Software patents are the devils elbow. As a matter of interest, what do you mean? Because the longevity of patents hinders progression in the software/tech world. What was top of the line 15 years ago is trivial today.

NetBeans is pretty good. If you have the money, so is Zend Studio.

This is called De Morgan's Law for the mathematically interested. It's fairly easy to prove, and other mathematical structures have this property as well.

I pay around £25 every third month for my VPS. I have 40 GB disk space and 384 MB memory (768 MB burst). If you can't afford that there are probably some things you should reconsider in your economy. Actually, I have up to 4 GB burst memory because they've configured it incorrectly. I'm not complaining though.

According to Apple, their operating system is so special that it can only (and is only allowed to) run on their own hardware. Therefore, I think it's reasonable making a distinction. I suppose you can say "Hi, I'm a Mac and I'm a ~Mac", but that seems quite stupid. What other word would you suggest for "~Mac"? When practically everybody in the general population makes the distinction between PC/Mac it's easier just following that convention than trying to force another, more technically accurate, word through.

Right, you can to delimit your pattern. http://dk.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php preg_replace

Did you try it?