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Crop images using mask on PHP

Adil — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:58:17 +0000

Sometimes the rectangle images are not enough from the design point view. You can crop images using the masks on Photoshop, GIMP or other graphical manipulation software. Another way to do it is using PHP’s GD library. Conceptual steps for …

Installing Redmine on cPanel

Adil — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:03:49 +0000

Installing Redmine on cPanel will be bit harder, because it needs some modifications on server configuration. And custom modifications will be lost on regeneration of configuration files by cPanel. According instruction at http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/HowTo_install_Redmine_on_CentOS_5 you will need change Apache configuration manually. It’s …

Getting thumbnail from YouTube

Adil — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:22:58 +0000

Getting thumbnail image of any YouTube video you need it’s video ID number. Video ID number is the 11 character string in the url and assigned to v parameter. For example video ID of this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5msjdZIoag&feature=related is S5msjdZIoag. You can get …

Removing UTF8 BOM from PHP files

Adil — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:09:11 +0000

UTF8 Byte Order Mark (BOM) is sequence of bytes for represent the file as UTF8. The sequence is hexadecimal EF BB BF value also you can see it at the beginning of the file as ï»¿. When these symbols is used the text …

Getting twitter messages on PHP

Adil — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:23:35 +0000

It’s usual on web sites to place a widget with twitter messages by site owner. There are many methods to get messages from Twitter. For example you can do it using Twitter API. There is another very simple method. It’s …

Graphic icons for buttons

Adil — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 22:23:48 +0000

Most common problem of software developers is finding good graphic icons for buttons, links or something like that. There are many sites where you can download such icons in various sizes. One good method is searching on google. Type on …

wget as a hacker tool

Adil — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:49:59 +0000

Few days ago some people called himself web-programmers, created a web-site where it was online voting for the parliament in my country. It was a simple system you select your region, select the candidate and vote for him. The purpose …

Ignoring browser commands

Adil — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:03:08 +0000

I have rarely encountered such situation, but for larger projects it is certainly common problem. Assume that the script performs some queries in the database (deleting / adding / editing) and during these user presses the Stop button in your …

fixed position on IE6

Adil — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:09:36 +0000

Fixed position on xhtml elements make the elements fixed at its coordinates and it is not moved when you scroll the pages. One of popular example can be facebook panel. #elementId { position:fixed; bottom:0; } An example above will make …

Regular expressions in SQL queries

Adil — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:06:54 +0000

Regular expressions are useful for parsing string, matching patterns, validating etc. If we talk about strings so, I think it’s good idea using it in SQL queries. Let we have table users: mysql> SELECT * FROM users; +----+-----------+----------+----------------------+ | id …