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…
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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….
Stating a 404 response with PHP; Why it is important
HTTP 404 is the response given when you browsers interacted with the servers but no page was found at the location (URL). This is important to know because for SEO…
GoPro Image Exif data with PHP
Here is how to get a GoPro’s image data (EXIF) such as size, settings, configuration and location using PHP and exif_read_data(). I have already covered getting image EXIF data in…
Getting image width, height and file size using PHP
Another easy to do exercise with PHP is getting an image width, height and size. Getting the image width and height in pixels is done with the function getimagesize(). All…