Archive for the ‘php’ Category
To set the stage we will start with a programming problem, this will keep the discussion anchored to a relevant context. The problem is this : We want to write a function that takes a image file as an argument and tells us whether the file is a GIF image; irrelevant with whatever the extension [...]
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- Tags: functions
A little quirk of PHP $_POST var I encountered while fixing a Salesforce web-to-Lead bug. A WordPress site was using a form to submit user requests to the Salesforce web-service. The form that submitted the data had the following fields along with the others. The problem was with the multi-select field, only the last value [...]
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- Tags: post data
Frequently when you are displaying images on a page using a fixed width and height , the images come out stretched or squeezed. This is because the aspect ratio of the images have not been maintained. In such a case you can use the following script to correctly display the images according to the aspect-ratio [...]
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- Tags: image
Usually after completing a long project I find that I’ve created various extraneous files in the project directory; like zip files or maybe a few big graphic files or some huge MySQL dumps. If the directory sizes are small I can manually delete those unwanted files. But if the directory sizes are big or if [...]
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- Tags: files, stats
executing curl requests in parallel in php
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- Tags: curl, parallel
How to disable the silence error operator in php
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- Tags: libraries, pear, peck
printing relative dates in php
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- Tags: date
tutorial on Anonymous or lambda functions and closures in php
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- Tags: closures, lambda
How to Fix PHP Vulnerabilities
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- Tags: security
