Coding Archive

PHP: GIF animation splitter (Split any GIF animiations – frame by frame properly!)

I have been looking for a GIF animation splitting script for quite awhile, but have not found any luck with any basic ones. There has been a couple but they do not process GIF animations properly anymore, because GIFs now are optimized etc You will end up getting frames that aren’t ‘complete’ frames because they [...]
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Opera and Youtube (Google) video playback issue (As of April 14th) – Fix

I do use Opera. For the most case, you love or hate the browser, but I’ve gotten to enjoy Opera for a bit now, specially the new Opera 10. Just yesterday, YouTube released a patch to attempt to prevent people from using adblockers and other tools that remove there ads/edit there content. The problem is, [...]
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PHP: Multiple submit button choices in a single FORM

This one is just posted mainly for a friend. He did not understand how to process data differently depending on the submit button clicked, only using ONE HTML FORM. Many people would end up making multiple forms on one or many pages to solve this, which can get rather messy or annoying. There is a [...]
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PHP: Randomizing a text file using PHP + MYSQL, quickly & efficient

I had one person approach me recently about my previous blog entry, stating that you cannot process randomization quickly in MYSQL because SELECT * FROM tablename ORDER BY RAND()"; would take horribly long to process when you have a large amount of records stored in a database. This is very true! RAND() is very slow [...]
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PHP: How to get a random image to display from a specific folder

So you have a folder full of images, and now you want to display a random image? No problem. There are a few examples you can find around online. However, for alot of the examples, you need to input the set amount of images that are actually in the folder, which can get annoying if [...]
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DirectX: Trouble with double values not returning a proper precision value after initializing DirectX?

After adding DirectX in a C++ project, I was experiencing an issue where double values were losing precision when being used in a math function. I was trying to figure out the issue for the past couple days, and it totally stumped me to why it was happening, such as using a formula like this: [...]
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Randomizing Large Text Files in PHP with low RAM usage and no database

Randomizing a text is normally a easy feat in PHP, the first example is a standard way to load and randomize text files with PHP with no database and is rather simple to grasp: ?View Code PHP$lines = array(); //Open text file for reading $fileopen = fopen("myfile.txt", "r"); //Load lines into a array [...]
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Lightbox Gone Wild – Post/Get Form Submission Issues?

I found a neat little LIGHTBOX system my boss wanted to use, which is called Lightbox Gone Wild, located at: http://particletree.com/features/lightbox-gone-wild/. Overall, this lightbox system is very easy to understand and I did not have a hard time modifying the coding to what was needed for my work. You can see an example of how [...]
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