See which website a user came from with PHP
Ever clicked a link and seen a spooky popup or mention of the website you just came from on the new page? This is done through HTTP_REFERER. $_SERVER[“HTTP_REFERER”] You can…
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PHP if matching conditions statements
Here are some examples to filter through strings in PHP to meet conditions. PHP functions used during this tutorial are: substr, is_numeric, preg_replace, str_replace and trim. Assume possible strings could…
Sorting array’s in PHP
How to sort arrays and associative arrays in ascending and descending sort. To sort an array ascending use sort: $array = array(“Car”, “Animal”, “Book”); sort($array);//(“Animal”, “Book”, “Car”) Or with values…
Adding subdomain to an ip address
Here is how to point a subdomain to an ip address using an A record in your DNS manager. A subdomain is a part of your main domain…. lets say…
Random image on page load with HTML and PHP
Here is a quick and very easy way to select and display a random image each time the page is loaded. Store the image links in an array and with…
Caching a MySQL HTML table with PHP
MySQL and PHP, the perfect match right?! Well close enough, anyway displaying a table with data from a MySQL database is a common task for a web developer. It’s easily…
Defining color variables in CSS
CSS can at times become confusing or hard to work in and edit, especially color codes. A well designed website will have similar color codes due to shading and lighter…
Taking a screenshot with FFmpeg
To take a screenshot or save a frame as an image with FFmpeg here is the basic command: ffmpeg -ss 01:10:35 -i invideo.mp4 -vframes 1 -q:v 3 screenshot.jpg -ss is…
Inspect a CSS hover element in chrome dev tools
Here is how to view the CSS hover state for an element with the Chrome developer tools and element selector. Once in Google Chrome and at your webpage, Open the…
Installing Windows 10 Pro ISO with Virtio on Vultr
This is a quick and easy guide on uploading and installing a Windows 10 Pro iso with Vultr cheaply. Vultr is a trusted and reliable cloud computing business with a…