PHP jpg compression Imagick vs Vanilla
Compressing a jpg file in PHP can be done without installing a third-party library, we call this method Vanilla as it is done stock standard, no extras needed. Imagick is…
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Check if user or channel is live with Twitch API using PHP
Checking if a channel is live and streaming on Twitch requires a client id, you can get your client id from here. The endpoint for getting a streams information is…
Installing PHP 7.4 Beta4 on Ubuntu 18.04
Installing the new PHP 7.4 Beta 4 on an Ubuntu 18.04 server, 7.4 Beta4 was released on the 22nd of August 2019. Start by updating package lists and information sudo…
Looking at PHP 7.4 coming soon
The major PHP Version 7.4 is set to be released November 28th 2019. All indicators are that it will again make PHP faster, building on the improvments 7.2 and 7.3…
Using Chart JS with PHP and MySQL
Chart JS is a very comprehensive framework for creating and customizing many charts and graphs. The ease of use and ability to configure the charts makes Chart JS a good…
PHP converting Unix epoch time format into readable date
Unix epoch time is the amount of seconds elapsed since 00:00:00 1st January 1970. Even more interesting is in 2038 the count will go to negative as it will reach…
Pass PDO MySQL connection into function without global
Passing a PDO MySQL connection into a PHP function can easily be done, simply by assigning global to the PDO connection variable unless you want to be repeating the connection…
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…
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…
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….