Tag Archives: PHP

Installing php-ffmpeg on CentOS 5.x

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Spechal

This can be a pain due to a bug in the ffpmeg_frame.c file … here are the commands to get up and going yum -y install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpeg-php/files/ffmpeg-php/0.6.0/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2/download tar jxvf ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2 sed -i ‘s/PIX_FMT_RGBA32/PIX_FMT_RGBA/g’ ffmpeg-php-0.6.0/ffmpeg_frame.c cd ffmpeg-php-0.6.0 && … Continue reading →

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jQuery wdCalendar Plugin: Expected ajax return

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Spechal

This plugin isn’t documented very well, so I figured I would post the bits and pieces I had issues with and hopefully help someone out. First thing I needed to do was move all the functions into a class and … Continue reading →

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phpize not found

Posted on December 6, 2009 by Spechal

This error is typically generated when you don’t have the PHP development libraries installed. Installing the libraries via repository is the easiest and quickest fix. For Fedora/Red Hat: yum install php5-dev For Ubuntu/Debian: apt-get install php5-dev Bookmark on Delicious Digg … Continue reading →

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Python MySQL Associative Array

Posted on November 27, 2009 by Spechal

By default, the MySQLdb module to access a MySQL database returns the data as an integer indexed array. Sometimes this is not desirable and an associative array is preferred, such as the mysql_fetch_assoc function in PHP. In addition, we will … Continue reading →

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PHP function to validate MySQL UUID or GUID

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Spechal

/** * Function to validate a generated GUID / UUID * @param string $guid GUID * @return bool */ function validGUID($guid){ return preg_match(‘#^[a-z0-9]{8}-[a-z0-9]{4}-[a-z0-9]{4}-[a-z0-9]{4}-[a-z0-9]{12}$#’, $guid); } Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers … Continue reading →

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PHP function to emulate MySQL UUID

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Spechal

/** * uuid * * uuid() simply replicates MySQL’s UUID function, which returns a 36 * character "random" hash (32 alphanumeric, 4 dashes). * @return string */ function uuid(){ return sprintf(‘%04x%04x-%04x-%04x-%04x-%04x%04x%04x’, mt_rand(0, 0xffff), mt_rand(0, 0xffff), mt_rand(0, 0xffff), mt_rand(0, 0x0fff) | … Continue reading →

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PHP function to emulate Excel NormSInv

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Spechal

<?php function NormSInv($p){ $a1 = -39.6968302866538; $a2 = 220.946098424521; $a3 = -275.928510446969; $a4 = 138.357751867269; $a5 = -30.6647980661472; $a6 = 2.50662827745924; $b1 = -54.4760987982241; $b2 = 161.585836858041; $b3 = -155.698979859887; $b4 = 66.8013118877197; $b5 = -13.2806815528857; $c1 = -7.78489400243029E-03; $c2 … Continue reading →

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