From January 2011 till January 2012.
My side of the story.
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24 Jan 2011 I got another event invite from “We are all Khaled Sayed” facebook page saying we should do another protest.
I thought 25 Jan will be like any other protest i participated in – Hell even the protest organizers thought so- we used to be hundreds or a thousand at maximum then the police would come and beat the crap out of us and arrest …

Only a few hours separate us from the end of 2011….
2011 you have been an awkward year!
I’ve never cried like i did in 2011, I’ve never laughed like i did in 2011.
I’ve met more people in 2011 than i’ve ever met in my entire life.
It was a year full of contradicting stuff, i’ve been shot at,  tear gas nearly killed me , i lost friends, but i could see light in the end of this darkness, at the end of this tunnel i see freedom after oppression, i see prosperity …

When running CLI PHP on windows i got that error:
The program can’t start because php_mbstring.dll is missing from your computer
PHP The program can’t start because dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
And i’ve verified the file is there and the version is correct.

Also another error was:
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘F:/AppServ\php5\ext\p
hp_exif.dll’ – The specified module could not be found.

Anyway thanks to wez’s solution here, i fixed it.
In php.ini this line:
extension=php_exif.dll
Was before this one
extension=php_mbstring.dll

I switched them and it’s working …

Microsoft is on board with the Egypt government’s decree to cancel the law regarding daylight savings time.
And now we want to make sure that your PC is in line with universal time across Egypt.
Please follow the below instructions to deactivate the daylight savings time mode on PCs
that run on Windows® 7 and Windows® XP.
If you have any queries, please get in touch with us.

Click on the Date/Time area at the bottom right to open date/time settings

Click on Change date and time settings

Click Change Time Zone

Choose Cairo from …

The function crop_text() crops certain string by word count.
so If you have a string like this:
$text = “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”;
running crop_text($text,5,’…’) will return:
“The quick brown fox jumps…”
Here is the function

<?
function crop_text($text,$len,$sep){
$cropped = ”;
$words = explode(‘ ‘, $text);
//split the paragraph into array of words
if(count($words) < $len){
$cropped = $text;
//if the word count is less than the desired length accept it all
}else{
for($i=0;$i<$len;$i++){
$cropped .= ‘ ‘.$words[$i];
//concatinating the words into one string
}
$cropped = $cropped.$sep;
//append the ending text e.g. (‘…’ or read more etc)
}
return $cropped;
}
?>