setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION); $dbconnection->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES, true); $dbconnection->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE, PDO::FETCH_ASSOC); try { $queryResults = $dbconnection->prepare($query_string); $queryResults->execute(); return $queryResults; } catch (PDOException $ex) { return false; } } function num_rows ($query_results) { try { $rowcount = $query_results->rowcount(); return $rowcount; } catch (PDOException $ex) { return false; } } function fetch ($query_results) { try { $fetchassoc = $query_results->fetch(); return $fetchassoc; } catch (PDOException $ex) { return false; } } function ordinal($number) { // Retrieved from http://stackoverflow.com/a/3110033/3508346 $ends = array('th','st','nd','rd','th','th','th','th','th','th'); if ((($number % 100) >= 11) && (($number%100) <= 13)) return $number. 'th'; else return $number. $ends[$number % 10]; } function time_elapsed($secs){ // Retrieved from http://php.net/manual/en/function.time.php#108581 $bit = array( // ' year' => $secs / 31556926 % 12, // ' week' => $secs / 604800 % 52, // ' day' => $secs / 86400 % 7, // ' hour' => $secs / 3600 % 24, ' minute' => $secs / 60 % 60, ' second' => $secs % 60 ); foreach($bit as $k => $v){ if($v > 1 || $v < 1)$ret[] = $v . $k . 's'; if($v == 1)$ret[] = $v . $k; } array_splice($ret, count($ret)-1, 0, 'and'); //$ret[] = 'ago.'; return join(' ', $ret); } function random_string($length = 10) { // Retrieved from http://stackoverflow.com/a/4356295/3508346 $characters = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'; $charactersLength = strlen($characters); $randomString = ''; for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++) { $randomString .= $characters[rand(0, $charactersLength - 1)]; } return $randomString; } ?>