Get all videos from channel with YouTube API
Getting all the videos (data) from a YouTube channel with the API seems a fairly common need right? Fair play to YouTube and Google as they’re going to make you…
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Change image based on screen size
Mobile based viewers of your website are going to be on smaller screens and (in theory) have slower internet, thus making a decent means for smaller sized and lower quality…
Get time taken to execute task in Ubuntu
To check and get a detailed response on how long a task took on your Ubuntu server you can use the time utility. Note that this is not the inbuilt…
How to do a ping test on Ubuntu
Thankfully pinging from an Ubuntu server is very similar to how its done on Windows systems. To ping a website or ip address 4 times use ping -c 4 hostname…
Creating SSH key access to your Linux VPS
Typical SSH connection is with username and a password, without adding extra security that leaves the server open to brute force or access from anyone who can read your printed…
PHP upload video with a progress bar
Using PHP to upload a file through a HTML form is common, its completely normal in fact however expecting or trying to get a progress bar to track the upload…
Live time and date with JavaScript
Use cases are rare but displaying the live time on a webpage is a neat feature, perhaps for a dashboard or panel would it suit best. There is no need…
Load smaller image in first with Javascript
How to avoid images popping in after the page has loaded by loading in and displaying a much smaller one first. Credit to FThompson here at StackOverflow. I edited it…
The basics of GNU Wget
GNU Wget is an open source software for downloading files with compatibility with the many popular internet protocols through command line use. Wget is a popular tool and highly versatile,…
Creating a PHP database connection file from a form
The ever common PHP MySQL database connection file, mostly named something like dbconnection.php or dbcon.php which gets used in a require_once situation whereby you need a connection to the database….