Category Archives: php

Java GIF Adventure

By | Published: March 7, 2008
I was recently working on a project that generated PNGs using Java from a Java2D canvas. Along the way someone wanted to change the graphics to have transparent backgrounds and because they were needed for display on the web I knew this would become an issue because IE doesn't support transparency in PNGs out of [...]
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Akismet spam graphs with PHP RRD

By | Published: January 1, 2007
After reading a post on hacking Akismet to add graphs I decided I liked the idea but I didn't want to store the data in a database. It seemed like it would be better to store it using a RRD and then use the PHP RRD library. So after a little hacking I've created a [...]
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Using Flash video metadata to display annotations

By | Published: December 9, 2006
Now that you can create a streaming Flash video player with PHP or Ruby and you know add metadata for cuepoints to Flash videos you are ready for something else. The following code will show you how to create a video player with PHP that will watch for metadata events and display annotations contained inside [...]
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How to Create a Streaming Flash Video Player Using Ming PHP or Ruby

By | Published: November 29, 2006
I mentioned in creating Flash videos using FFMpeg that you could use Ming to create your own Flash video player. I've added a patch to the ruby -ming extension for video streaming so now it is possible to create a streaming player with both PHP and Ruby using their Ming extensions. The following examples show [...]
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PHP ImageMagick MagickWand Examples

By | Published: November 23, 2006
A while back I explained how to compile the ImageMagick extension for PHP and this past week I got around to creating some example code to make some of the command line examples I have in ImageMagick command line examples part 1 and ImageMagick command line examples part 2.
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How to compile ImageMagick for PHP by hand

By | Published: October 31, 2006
Some time ago I was looking at how to re-size uploaded images in a way that looks good using PHP. I was impressed that when I uploaded a 4M picture to flickr it managed to re-size and compress it into a smaller version that looked correct. I knew they weren't just resizing it so I [...]
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Lighty XCache for PHP

By | Published: September 18, 2006
I noticed Lighty XCache when it came out a few months ago. I like EAccelerator myself but now there is an admin console for XCache that looks pretty nice.
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How to map URLs with PHP and lighttpd

By | Published: August 22, 2006
On a number of occasions I've wanted to map a section of a site hosted with lighttpd onto a single PHP file that could then be used as a controller. Here is how I go about doing it. The first part is to re-write the given part of the site to the PHP file you [...]
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PHP RRDTool tutorial

By | Published: July 18, 2006
On a number of occasions I've used RRDTool to graph network traffic and the like. A few years ago when I started using cacti I started wondering how to make the graphs myself. Creating the graphs on the command line isn't that hard once you know how to set things up and it turns out [...]
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How to build the PHP rrdtool extension by hand

By | Published: May 9, 2006
I think by now most sysadmin types know about rrdtool and the nice graphs it makes. I recently wanted to create some graphs by hand using PHP so I turned to the php-rrdtool extension. I found that it takes a little work to get it to compile but that could be because I'm not constantly [...]
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