If you have website which contains both ASCII and non ASCII character such as Chinese character and you want to detect if there is a non ASCII character in the content, you may consider to use the php function utf8_decode().

Convert the input/string to an ASCII charset and compare it back with
the original. If they’re not equal, it’s possibly contains a non ASCII character.

if (utf8_decode($string)!=$string) {
echo “The string contains non ASCII character”;
}

May be this is a dirty trick that I can think of, but after all it works for me…

Lets take this code for example:

<form action=”action.php” method=’post’>
<select name=”fruit”>
<option value=”apple”>Apple</option>
<option value=”banana”>Banana</option>
<option value=”lemon”>Lemon</option>
<option value=”mango”>Mango</option>
</select>
<input type=”submit” />
</form>

The selected value will be stored in $_POST['fruit'] on action.php. If “Banana” was selected and submit was hit, $_POST['fruit'] would be ‘banana’.

If you change the ‘method’ of the form to ‘get’ the selected value will be stored in $_GET['fruit'].

If you use Firefox as your web browser and want to download video from YouTube, there’s an add-on for that. It’s “1-Click YouTube Download”. You can download it here.

1-Click YouTube Download is very easy and simple to use. The add-on adds small links in YouTube to download videos and music in 3GP, MP4 HD (High Definition), MP4 High-Quality and FLV. If you like to download a video from YouTube, all you have to do is to visit the video page and click on the MP4/FLV/3GP download links located at the bottom of the video.

After downloading the video, you can then watch it offline using a media player software capable for playing MP4, 3GP or FLV files such as VLC Media Player, QuickTime and Adobe Media Player. Or you can transfer it to Apple’s iPod and to most modern mobile phones.