When working on a copy of a live WordPress website it can be handy not to have to duplicate the uploaded files in wp-content/uploads, whilst still allowing the creation of new uploads during testing and development without affecting the production website. The configuration below can be added inside a server{} block inside an NGINX configuration […]
Continue reading →A Bootstrap 3 design I am working on requires square rather than the default rounded css corners. The quick and easy solution involves overriding the values of only 5 Less variables in my own Less variables file:
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@border-radius-base: 0; @border-radius-large: 0; @border-radius-small: 0; @pager-border-radius: 0; @badge-border-radius: 0; |
There are a lot of other variables in Bootstrap for setting various border radius’, but all of them use one […]
Continue reading →I’m using abcde with the ~/.abcde.conf file below. I think the only change I made to the configuration file was the LAMEOPTS for 320kbs bitrate and the outputtype to mp3:
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# MP3: LAMEOPTS="-k -h -ms -b320" OUTPUTTYPE=mp3 |
Usage: cd into the folder to store the mp3s, and type abcde. Answer the questions it asks and if necessary fill in any missing […]
Continue reading →For my second example of using my image thumbnailer I’ve thrown together a little script which accepts a zip archive upload containing images and generates and returns to the browser a new zip archive containing a thumbnail for each image in the original.
Continue reading →This is a simple script to demonstrate using my image resizing function . It scans the directory you place it in for any images, generates a thumbnail for each image, then outputs html to display the thumbnails as links to each image. It requires php 5.1+ as it uses the Directory Iterator to get the […]
Continue reading →One of the great things about php is its built in support for the gd image library which makes creating thumbnails from images quite trivial, although you still need to calculate the correct dimensions if you want your thumbs to be resized proportionally. Here’s a function that takes a gd image, a maximum width and […]
Continue reading →This is a simple php contact form / feedback form script I through together as an introduction to php for a friend. Rather than write a tutorial I’ve heavily commented the code. Hope its useful to somebody. WARNING – This was written a long time ago, and does not reflect current PHP best practice!
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