PHP password hashing and verifying
Password hashing is to prevent easy password exploiting by not storing password in plaintext. Instead you store a hash and verify this against the login attempt. Imagine if a database…
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Mass renaming images in PHP
Lets say you have a group of photos from a location, shoot or event. They will be named depending on the camera something like DC001984 or IMG_02891 something like that…
Getting image exif data with PHP
Exif stands for Exchangable Image Format, it is the data and information that gets attached to digital images. From location, aperture, IOS, camera, lens, date time, image size + format…
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…
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…
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…
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…
PHP Imagick JPG compression quality 1 to 100
Comparing Imagick a PHP image plugin JPG image file compression from 1 (lowest) through to 100. The original image was 1MB and the code used to do this test was:…
Measuring page load time with PHP
A simple method to view a PHP pages load time in seconds can be done with the use of microtime(). Microtime when called counts in microseconds, using microtime true makes…