Tag: PHP

September 19, 2020

Major new version of the PHP OPCache GUI

I have just released a major new version of my OPCache GUI! It looks pretty much the same, but here are the more notable changes: New namespace for the base service class which ensure composer compatibility You can now paginate the cached files list to make it easier to render a large file list Any scripts that have been preloaded...

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July 22, 2017

Filter an array of objects

Quite often I might have an array of objects, be it from a db query or some json object, and I want to filter that list in a particular way.  Lots of times I would find myself doing the same old thing; creating a new array, looping and looping until all I had left was what matched my filter. I’m...

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November 29, 2016

Calculate aspect ratio

This is a handy little function I’ve used a few times to calculate the aspect ratio of an image or video.  Simply give it the width and height and it’ll give you the aspect ratio.

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July 19, 2015

PHP South Coast 2015

I’ve just arrived back from the inaugural PHP South Coast Conference.  It was a really great event that seemed to go without a hitch, had a fantastic range of speakers and a nice bunch of people that attended.  So first of all, a really big thank you! to PHP Hampshire, BrightonPHP and PHP Dorset for putting on a top-notch event...

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June 23, 2015

Phpiwire: a PHP extension (written using Zephir) for controlling the Raspberry Pi GPIO

So it’s been a while since my lightening talk on Zephir and I realized I hadn’t really done anything to try to learn it a little more in-depth.  Coincidentally, I was recently going through a drawer and realized that one of my Raspberry Pi’s was in there just begging to be put to some use (seriously, I could practically hear it...

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October 18, 2014

Create video thumbnail previews for JW Player

JWPlayer is a fantastic video player for the web. One of the great features it provides is the ability to show thumbnail previews of the video as you slide along the toolbar timeline, much the same way that YouTube and the like allow. Generating the thumbnail images is not quite so easy unless you have ffmpeg installed and know a...

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June 19, 2014

Effective, clean UI for viewing the PHP error log

Recently at work I found myself trawling through the PHP error log file and found that all the lines of text were starting to blur after a while. Thinking there had to be a better way over viewing the log file, and following on from my single-file opcache viewer gui, I decided to knock out something for viewing the error...

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April 8, 2013

Zend OPcache – some info and a GUI

I’ve just started to use Zend OPcache in place of APC in a few places and so far it’s great! Because documentation seems a little scarce right now, I’ve decided to jot down the methods available (mainly so I don’t forget). opcache_reset Should be pretty obvious given the name – resets the opcache opcache_get_configuration This will return an array with...

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April 13, 2012

Handy little function

Quite often I find myself wanting to run the same script by either cli or through a browser. But I don’t want to fill my echo statements with <br /> tags if I’m on cli because that’d just look ugly, but at the same time I don’t just want to use \n when outputting in the browser because everything would...

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April 8, 2011

Sorting an array of objects by one or more object property

Quite often I find myself having an array of objects and needing to sort that array of objects by property (either one property or multiple)… Imagine, for example, getting a large result set from your database and ordering in the query just takes too long. Or perhaps you’re getting results from a web service and that service doesn’t return the...

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