function sanitize($name)
{
// Sanitize image filename (taken from http://iamcam.wordpress.com/2007/03/20/clean-file-names-using-php-preg_replace/ )
$fname = $name;
$replace = "_";
$pattern = "/([[:alnum:]_\\.-]*)/";
$fname = str_replace(str_split_php4(preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $fname)), $replace, $fname);
return $fname;
}
function str_split($string, $length = 1)
{
return str_split_php4($string, $length);
}
<?php
//recent posts
//echo a title
$print_rec = "<p align='center' class='recent'><strong>Recent Comments</strong></p>";
echo $print_rec;
//find out if they want a spedcific blog or are looking generally
if (empty($blog_name)) {
$recentpostswhere = "";
} else {
$recentpostwhere = "WHERE comment_blog = '" . $mysqli->real_escape_string($blog_name) . "'";
}
//get the seven most recent entries from the database
$sql_rec1 = "SELECT comment_entry, comment_blog, comment_name, comment_text FROM blogs_comments " . $recentpostwhere . " ORDER BY comment_timestamp DESC LIMIT 7";
$request_rec1 = $mysqli->query($sql_rec1) or die($mysqli->error);
//print them
while ($row_rec1 = $request_rec1->fetch_assoc()) {
$rec_id = $row_rec1['comment_entry'];
$rec_blog = $row_rec1['comment_blog'];
$rec_name = $row_rec1['comment_name'];
$rec_text = removecrap(html_entity_decode($row_rec1['comment_text']));
//cut it down a bit
$rec_text_split = str_split_php4($rec_text, 17);
$rec_text_echo = htmlentities($rec_text_split[0]);
//echo the output
$print_rec = "<p align='left' class='recent'><a href='?blog={$rec_blog}&show=entry&id={$rec_id}' class='recent'><strong>{$rec_name}</strong> {$rec_text_echo}...</a></p>";
echo $print_rec;
}
//end while
