Tag Archives: php

Quick And Easy Music Command Generator In PHP

I won’t go in to the convoluted reason why I needed to write this script, but I will tell you that I recently used it to convert over 540 music files (using FFMPEG) from wma to mp3. You see, when … Continue reading

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Working With XML/XSLT, JSON, And PHP

So, this tale, which for your sake I will attempt to make brief, is typical of my experiences in web development. As one of my old bosses used to say (and I’m paraphrasing), “if there’s a hard way to do … Continue reading

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Graphing With Flot

I was working on one of my personal projects, graphing data with PHP, when I ran into a wall. Sure, with PHP, you can get all your data (in the words of some famous poet: database, oh database, how do … Continue reading

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Install A Linux Web Server On Your Windows 7 PC With Vagrant

First, I’d like to reference an excellent video tutorial that I used for my initial foray into the Vagrant world. Click here to see that tutorial. Disclaimer: This blog entry does not necessarily follow safe computer/networking procedures. Use this only … Continue reading

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Towns In Connecticut – Highlighting Mapped Regions Of An Image With jQuery

Having lived most of my adult life in another part of the country, I am often at a loss when towns/cities are mentioned (say, for instance, in a job posting). Until recently, the only solution was to google or mapquest … Continue reading

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Auto Image Display With PHP And JQuery

This script will automatically display all the .jpg images in a given folder. The beauty of this script is that it needs no database access. The information for the caption (and alt) are in the images themselves. Easy modifications that … Continue reading

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Random Password Generator

One way to make a random password generator. See it in action: Random Password Generator Example Hopefully I’ve commented enough in the code to explain it all: <?php /** * generateRandomPasswords.php * @author Robert Newton <lektrikpukeAtYahooDotCom> * if you use/reuse … Continue reading

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PHP Calculate Easter

My browser homepage is set to a localhost php calendar that is connected to a database (to display birthdays, events, reminders, data of all sorts). One of the dates I originally found difficult to calculate was Easter. One of the … Continue reading

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Parsing XML With PHP SimpleXML

Needed to stay busy (a long story) and figured I’d kill two birds with one stone, so I parsed some XML for a friend I used to work with. PHP is my favorite scripting language, so of course I opted … Continue reading

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phpMyAdmin on Windows 7

So, it’s been a while since I upgraded to Windows 7, and I thought everything was tweaked and functioning properly.  Turns out I was wrong.  I tried to login to phpMyAdmin, my favorite means of accessing a database (MySQL), on … Continue reading

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