Stock Portfolio Update

Apparently, it’s best to show your hand while working with the stock market. In the interest of transparency, here’s my stock portfolio:

I’ve cut back to about half of my past holdings. Things aren’t going so well in this market, but I’m holding on and just not making any buys. I’m very much looking forward to the end of this bear market.

Find all the values of a key in an array

This is a recursive PHP function that searches all of the keys in an array and pulls out their values.

<pre id="geshi_code">function multi_array_key_search($needle,$haystack,$keys_found=array()){
	if(is_array($haystack)){
		foreach($haystack as $key=&gt;$val){
			if(is_array($val)){
				$keys_found = multi_array_key_search($needle,$val,$keys_found);
			}else{
				if($key==$needle){
					$keys_found[] = $val;
				}
			}
		}
		return $keys_found;
	}
	return false;
}

Alternating background colors

I just wrote some pretty quick code for the age-old problem of alternating colors in a table. I don’t know how this could get any simpler. Sweet!

<pre id="geshi_code">&lt;? foreach($posts as $post){?&gt;
	&lt;div class=&quot;&lt;?=($c++%2==1)?'odd':NULL?&gt;&quot;&gt;
		&lt;?=$post?&gt;
	&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;? }?&gt;
&lt;style&gt;
	.odd{background-color:red;}
&lt;/style&gt;

Forcing a floated line-wrap in PHP

For every 4 floated elements, wrap to the next line:

<?=($b++%4==0)?’<br class="clr" />’:NULL?>