Get the play time and bitrate of an mp3 in php
If your php application is processing media files like mp3, then it might need to find details of the mp3 file like its playtime, bitrate, encoder etc. There is a very useful php library called Getid3...
View ArticlePhp – Output content to browser in realtime without buffering
Consider a long running php script that does many tasks and after each task it outputs the status. echo 'Task 1 complete'; .... some delay ... echo 'Task 2 complete'; .... more delay and more tasks ......
View ArticleGenerate qrcode and pdf417 barcodes in php with tcpdf
Tcpdf is a pdf creation library for php that is written in pure php and works without the need of any external library. It also has the feature to generate 2d barcodes like qrcode and pdf417. The 2d...
View ArticleConvert excel to csv in php
When working with data import and export for example, file formats like csv and excel are commonly used. Data can be exported to csv format and imported elsewhere. Also data might be entered manually...
View ArticleHow to use proxy with curl in php
Proxy with Curl Curl is a very useful library for transferring data over various protocols like http, ftp, https etc. In other words curl can be used to programatically download a web page, or upload...
View ArticleConvert html to pdf in php using mpdf
Html to pdf If your php application needs to generate some kind of pdf report then the simplest approach would be to generate the report as an html and then convert it to pdf using some library. Plenty...
View ArticleParse the user agent with ua-parser in php – detect browser, os and device
In your web application you might need to parse the user's user-agent string to find out the browser/OS/device being used. This is necessary specially when your webapp tries to adapt to the user's...
View ArticleSocket programming with streams in php
Socket programming involves connecting to remote machines on LAN or over the internet using ip addresses and port number. For example google.com has an ip "173.194.36.3" and runs http server on port...
View ArticleHow to modify a SoapClient request in php
SOAP is a protocol to exchange objects over http. It is used to implement apis and the data being exchanged is in xml format. Sometimes it might be required to modify the soap request to add custom...
View ArticlePhp – Do not rely on set_time_limit too much
Php set_time_limit Php has a function called set_time_limit which can be used to dynamically adjust the maximum execution time permitted to a script. It allows specifying the time in seconds and limits...
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