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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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Infinite Space Review (DS)

I’m a huge fan of space type games, they are probably first choice of games I prefer to play, followed by racing games and first person shooters. The game I recently tried was Infinite Space for the DS, (Yeah, I have one of ‘those’, tend to play it when I can’t get near a computer.) [...]
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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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