JavaScript Photo galleries are dime-a-dozen, with a large number of variations in size and features. But this particular one developed using Mootools is a breath of fresh air. Most galleries are spatially bounded, i.e. they have a limit how how much you can scroll in any direction.
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Face detection in images using PHP
In a previous post we saw how to detect human faces in images using JavaScript. In the current post we will look into a PHP port of a JavaScript face detection algorithm without using openCV. Since the code is completed written in PHP it cannot attain the raw speed that C,C++ provides, but for many trivial application a PHP version can do.
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Retrieving email Gravatar images
Below is a quick hack to retrieve and save Gravatars. Gravatar images come in various formats, but we don’t detect them here, just save the retreived image in ‘jpg’ format.
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Taking screenshots of websites in PHP
Taking screenshos of websites is not a frequent requirement for developers but can come handy on many occasions. Although there are some nice solutions on the web, a particular one I found very good is wkhtmltoimage.
wkhtmltoimage is a simple shell utility which can be used to convert html to images using the webkit rendering engine, and qt.
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