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how to: add individual css classes to sidebar widgets in wordpress using widget logic

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how to: add individual css classes to sidebar widgets in wordpress using widget logic there are some wordpress themes which, for some reason, remove the individual widget wrap css-classes, and just add one generic class to all the widgets, e.g.
<div class="widgetwrap"> ... </div>

this is a real pain if you want to change the appearance of just one specific widget in your sidebar.
at the same time, widget logic is (1) a very powerful widget plugin, and (2) known to have incompatibilities with some other widget plugins (or is it the other way round?).

to solve this problem while keeping widget logic, i wrote a little script and thought i’d share.

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PHP and regular expressions: return directory URL of a script without the file name

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i couldn’t find this through google right away, so i’m keeping it here for reference:

in a php script, i wanted to return the address of the current directory, but remove the file name, extension and additional GET-parameters from the url. here’s what i’ve come up with:

    <?php
    $scripturl = "http://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
    $scriptpath = eregi_replace('\/[a-z0-9_]*\.php.*', '/', $scripturl);
    ?>

what the regex code does is look for the last slash in the url (“\/”), then any combination of alphanumeric characters (“[a-z0-9_]*”), followed by the .php file extension (“\.php”) and whatever else there may be in the url (“.*”). the found string is replaced with a single slash (“/”).
i’m sure there’s a better ways to do this, but it’s easy and it works:

example file:

    http://www.thinkoholic.com/test/script.php?var=xy#top

output:

    http://www.thinkoholic.com/test/

 

trying to find the right expression, i found this tool very helpful: PHP Regular Expression Tester

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