Today I am pleased to announce that search terms are now wide open to be street names, cities, states, anything you wish to indicate where to search from. I give all thanks to Google’s Geocoding API. This essentially allows me to accept any term that Google Maps accepts to pinpoint a location.

In the future I may implement their maps API and display all results in a map interface in addition to the current listing. But for right now, I’m doing good to get this much done.

Oh, and this update applies to the mobile edition of the site as well. Happy radio surfing!

PR: wait…  I: wait…  L: wait…  LD: wait…  I: wait… wait…

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# 1 optional space or brackets before
([\s[{(]|[[:punct:]])?

#   starting "
"

# 2 text of link
([^"\(]+)

#   opt space
\s?

# 3 opt title attribute in parenths
(?:\(([^\(]*)\))?

#   dividing ":
":

# 4 suppose this is the url
(\S+)

# 5 opt trailing slash
(\/?)

# 6 opt punctuation after the url
([^[:alnum:]\/;]|[1-9^]*)

# 7 either white space or end of string
(\s|$)

/xU'

After playing around with various things, I narrowed the problem down to item 6. I got it down to a form that now seems to work:

([^[:alnum:]\/;]?)

This change does not appear to affect the normal usage so I’m guessing its a safe change. However I’m no wiz when it comes to regular expressions so I’m not sure how this might affect future functionality. I’ll keep an eye on it.

<?php
define('NUM', 10);
try {
    if (NUM < 20) {
        throw new Exception(
            NUM . " is too small!"
        );
    }
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage();
    echo "\n<br />\n";
}
?>

Could prove very useful for debugging purposes.

I for one can’t wait for PHP5 to come out. I just hope PHPWebHosting.com isn’t slow to upgrade.