twitter time_zone values array

Obviously, it's a good idea to return a user's timezone in an api by the word: "tijuana" or "Sri Jayawardenepura". You can work with that, it's perfectly normalised.

at least, that's what twitter thinks.

If you need an integer as representation of the users timezone on twitter, here is a function for you:


public function getOffsetFromTwitterTimezone($timezone) {


$aTimezones = array(
"Hawaii" => -1000,
"Alaska" => -900,
"Pacific Time (US & Canada)" => -800,
"Arizona" => -700,
"Mountain Time (US & Canada)" => -700,
"Central Time (US & Canada)" => -600,
"Eastern Time (US & Canada)" => -500,
"Indiana (East)" => -500,
"International Date Line West" => -1100,
"Midway Island" => -1100,
"Samoa" => -1100,
"Tijuana" => -800,
"Chihuahua" => -700,
"Mazatlan" => -700,
"Central America" => -600,
"Guadalajara" => -600,
"Mexico City" => -600,
"Monterrey" => -600,
"Saskatchewan" => -600,
"Bogota" => -500,
"Lima" => -500,
"Quito" => -500,
"Caracas" => -450,
"Atlantic Time (Canada)" => -400,
"La Paz" => -400,
"Santiago" => -400,
"Newfoundland" => -350,
"Brasilia" => -300,
"Buenos Aires" => -300,
"Georgetown" => -300,
"Greenland" => -300,
"Mid-Atlantic" => -200,
"Azores" => -100,
"Cape Verde Is." => -100,
"Casablanca" => 0,
"Dublin" => 0,
"Edinburgh" => 0,
"Lisbon" => 0,
"London" => 0,
"Monrovia" => 0,
"Amsterdam" => 100,
"Belgrade" => 100,
"Berlin" => 100,
"Bern" => 100,
"Bratislava" => 100,
"Brussels" => 100,
"Budapest" => 100,
"Copenhagen" => 100,
"Ljubljana" => 100,
"Madrid" => 100,
"Paris" => 100,
"Prague" => 100,
"Rome" => 100,
"Sarajevo" => 100,
"Skopje" => 100,
"Stockholm" => 100,
"Vienna" => 100,
"Warsaw" => 100,
"West Central Africa" => 100,
"Zagreb" => 100,
"Athens" => 200,
"Bucharest" => 200,
"Cairo" => 200,
"Harare" => 200,
"Helsinki" => 200,
"Istanbul" => 200,
"Jerusalem" => 200,
"Kyiv" => 200,
"Minsk" => 200,
"Pretoria" => 200,
"Riga" => 200,
"Sofia" => 200,
"Tallinn" => 200,
"Vilnius" => 200,
"Baghdad" => 300,
"Kuwait" => 300,
"Moscow" => 300,
"Nairobi" => 300,
"Riyadh" => 300,
"St. Petersburg" => 300,
"Volgograd" => 300,
"Tehran" => 350,
"Abu Dhabi" => 400,
"Baku" => 400,
"Muscat" => 400,
"Tbilisi" => 400,
"Yerevan" => 400,
"Kabul" => 450,
"Ekaterinburg" => 500,
"Islamabad" => 500,
"Karachi" => 500,
"Tashkent" => 500,
"Chennai" => 550,
"Kolkata" => 550,
"Mumbai" => 550,
"New Delhi" => 550,
"Kathmandu" => 575,
"Almaty" => 600,
"Astana" => 600,
"Dhaka" => 600,
"Novosibirsk" => 600,
"Sri Jayawardenepura" => 600,
"Rangoon" => 650,
"Bangkok" => 700,
"Hanoi" => 700,
"Jakarta" => 700,
"Krasnoyarsk" => 700,
"Beijing" => 800,
"Chongqing" => 800,
"Hong Kong" => 800,
"Irkutsk" => 800,
"Kuala Lumpur" => 800,
"Perth" => 800,
"Singapore" => 800,
"Taipei" => 800,
"Ulaan Bataar" => 800,
"Urumqi" => 800,
"Osaka" => 900,
"Sapporo" => 900,
"Seoul" => 900,
"Tokyo" => 900,
"Yakutsk" => 900,
"Adelaide" => 950,
"Darwin" => 950,
"Brisbane" => 1000,
"Canberra" => 1000,
"Guam" => 1000,
"Hobart" => 1000,
"Melbourne" => 1000,
"Port Moresby" => 1000,
"Sydney" => 1000,
"Vladivostok" => 1000,
"Magadan" => 1100,
"New Caledonia" => 1100,
"Solomon Is." => 1100,
"Auckland" => 1200,
"Fiji" => 1200,
"Kamchatka" => 1200,
"Marshall Is." => 1200,
"Wellington" => 1200,
"Nuku'alofa" =>1300);

return $aTimezones[$timezone];
}

cusor/caret position

If you want to set your cursor to the end of a textarea or textfield, just set the focus first and then a value.
so:

self.rte.domCode.value += '';
self.rte.domCode.focus();

will put the focus at the start while

self.rte.domCode.focus();
self.rte.domCode.value += '';

will put it at the end :)

chrome and safari form target

Chrome and Safari won't be able to find the target of a form, if it's not already extisting in the DOM tree, when the form is created.

So,

good:

<iframe name="myframe"></iframe>

<form target="myframe" method="POST"></form>

<input>

bad:

<form target="myframe" method="POST"></form>

<input>

<iframe name="myframe"></iframe>