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:…
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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…
Getting latest Sub Reddit posts with PHP
Fetching a Sub Reddits latest posts is actually easy, mostly because the Reddit API is free and you don’t need a key. You can do self archiving with PHP and…
PHP check if MySQL row found for query
If you want to check if a row will be returned using PHP and MySQL you can use mysqli_num_rows which counts how many rows will be returned from the query….
PHP 7.0 vs 7.3 vs 7.4 Dev benchmarks
Thanks to this post by SteveMC at Lowendtalk PHP versions were benchmarked using php-benchmark-script.com On a reported Intel i3 3240 – 8GB ram, from version 7.0 through to the latest…
Resize an image in Vanilla PHP
Here is a way to resize images in PHP without needing a framework like ImageMagick or GD The below code is derived from here. With the function resize_image taking into…
Scraping Steam screenshots with PHP
Here is how to scrape a Steam games screenshots with PHP. It’s actually very simple. All games on Steam have a community hub which has news, videos, forums, guides, screenshots…
NBA fixture API with PHP; Making simple team fixture
NBA offers many useful and detailed API endpoints, from stats to scores and shot charts they are very generous and providing given that it is for free. In this post…
Introducing rNBAye
r/nba Reddits NBA sub has a side to it most wouldn’t see or know about. A lot of posts get removed by the mods for being either or a mixture…
Image compression with PHP
Using PHPs inbuilt image compression function imagejpeg I did a test to find out is it worth compressing images? and is there a big difference? The usage is simple for…