Dont put your code snippet as an image
Code snippets no matter the placement as seen as a guide, answer or ways to do something. From a blog to a website, Gist they serve the same purpose. Code…
Category: Development
Another PHP simple DOM selection
I have touched on PHP Simple HTML DOM parser before, its useful to grab data from websites where no API is available. It’s actually one of the many methods.. such…
MySQL COUNT where COUNT greater than
Using MySQL COUNT with GROUP BY gives the total occurrence of each value in the database as determined with what is Grouped by. See here or here for more information….
Updating PHP version with XAMPP
Here is how to easily and successfully upgrade PHP version in XAMPP for windows. It can be done with any XAMPP PHP version of your choice. I upgraded to PHP…
Storing and reading a JSON file in MySQL with PHP
Storing values from a json output into a database is a common occurence, but storing the whole json call into a column not so much. Traditionally it is more efficient…
FFmpeg choosing stream to download
With most online streams, decent ones at least you can choose the quality. The stream quality is mostly bit rate and resolution based. Lowering the resolution means you can lower…
Creating a dynamic captcha image with PHP
Sick of my contact form being used as an express way for spammers i set about to make a solution to end the spam to which i was surprised still…
Full install and setup of Apache, PHP, MySQL, SSL and FTP Ubuntu 18.10
How to install a full web server setup on Ubuntu 18.10 x64. This will also work on other versions of Ubuntu such as 18.04 and 16.04 x64. Installing Apache with…
MySQL count for multiple conditions
MySQL COUNT allows you to count rows in your MySQL database, a useful way to use this is to apply a condition like: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM invoices WHERE `paid` =…
Comparing speed for 3 PHP save image methods
Testing the speed with 3 methods to save or download an image in PHP, each method was run twice and then the average time was used with the output filename…