FTP to your Apache root on Ubuntu
Once you have installed Apache on your server you most likely need an easy way to edit or upload files. The root of Apache is /var/www Here is a way…
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PHP function to get difference between two dates
If you want to get the minutes, hours, days, months between two dates in PHP this function is for you. Feel free to customize its return output to suit your…
How to benchmark a linux server
A Benchmark is a test that checks the performance of varying factors and can be compared amongst the like. A server benchmark tests the i/o speed (disk read and write…
How to download videos of websites with FFmpeg
IF you don’t know or have FFmpeg installed here is the post for you, otherwise follow along to learn how to grab videos from news or sports websites. I like…
PHP string functions to find, replace, remove and extract
PHP has a lot of string functions, the ones used in this post are mostly of the str_ variety except there are many ways and options to do the tasks…
Cutting a part from a video with FFmpeg
FFmpeg allows you to choose a start time for a video and a finish time or duration and it will chop that part out and save it. There are two…
How to tweet out your latest Fortnite game result with Twitter api in php
Here is how to automatically with the Twitter api and a cron job tweet out if you finished 1st, top 5 or top 10 in your last Fortnite game along…
Installing XAMPP on Windows Server 2012r2
XAMPP is a program that makes having a local web server simple. With XAMPP you can easily handle a web server (Apache) plus MySQL. Here is how to install and…
How to upload and setup a Windows server 2012r2 custom iso with Vultr
Here is how to upload a windows server 2012 r2 ISO to Vultr to get a windows VPS very cheap! Vultr is a trusted and reliable cloud computing business with…
How to get your Twitter api keys
Here is how to get your Twitter api Consumer Key (API Key), Consumer Secret (API Secret) , Access Token and Access Token Secret. With these 4 values you can tweet…