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…
Tag: Web Dev
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…
JSON storage services
Storing JSON data with a service allowing the ability to simply retrieve upon need isn’t a scarce ability. There are many online services offering to store your JSON data with…
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…
Change image based on screen size
Mobile based viewers of your website are going to be on smaller screens and (in theory) have slower internet, thus making a decent means for smaller sized and lower quality…
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…
Load smaller image in first with Javascript
How to avoid images popping in after the page has loaded by loading in and displaying a much smaller one first. Credit to FThompson here at StackOverflow. I edited it…