Personal Knowledge Management

function getNearestMatch($number, $candidates) {
 
	$candidates = is_array($candidates) ? $candidates : array($candidates);
 
	$size = count($candidates);
	if ($size > 0) {
		//absolute difference between 0th element and input value
		$diff = abs($candidates[0] - $number);
		//element closest to input value
		$ret = $candidates[0];
		//loop through the rest of the array
		for ($i = 1; $i < $size; $i++) {
			$temp = abs($candidates[$i] - $number);
			if ($temp < $diff) {
				//set new difference and closest element
				$diff = $temp;
				$ret = $candidates[$i];
			}
		}
		return $ret;
	} else {
		return NULL;
	}
 
    }

<?php
class Rates {
	function Convert($amount,$from,$to){
		$url="http://adsynth-ofx-quotewidget-prod.herokuapp.com/api/1";
		$ch = curl_init();
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, '{"method":"spotRateHistory","data":{"base":"'.$from.'","term":"'.$to.'","period":"week"}}');
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type:application/json'));
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "https://widget-yahoo.ofx.com/");
		$html = curl_exec ($ch);
		curl_close ($ch);
		$veri=json_decode($html,true);
		return $veri["data"]["CurrentInterbankRate"]*$amount;
	}
}
$kur = new Rates();
echo $kur->Convert(1, 'USD', 'GBP');

# Test before apply
patch -p1 --dry-run > /path/to/some.patch
# Apply patch
patch -p1 > /path/to/some.patch
# Revert
patch -p1 -R > /path/to/some.patch

git format-patch -1 SHA5

ffmpeg -i wombsounds.mp4 -f mp3 -ab 192000 -vn wombsounds.mp3

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_self">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick" />
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="imran.aghayev@yahoo.co.uk"/>
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Itemname"/>
<input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="1"/>
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="150"/>
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="GBP"/>
<input type="hidden" name="lc" value="UK"/>
<input type="hidden" name="bn" value="btn_buynow_SM.gif"/>
<input type="hidden" name="weight_unit" value="kgs"/>
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynow_SM.gif" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal"/>
</form>

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(FROM_UNIXTIME(yourfield), '%e %b %Y') FROM yourtable;

<?php
 
$x = 5;
 
for($i=0; $i<10; $i++)
{
    if($i % $x == 0)
    {
       echo 'yes';
    }
}