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…
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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…
MySQL count for multiple conditions
MySQL COUNT allows you to count rows in your MySQL database, a useful way to use this is to apply a condition like: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM invoices WHERE `paid` =…
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…
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…