Found a great function for image resize in php. It requires php >= 4.3.0.
I found the source in http://www.akemapa.com/2008/07/10/php-gd-resize-transparent-image-png-gif/

<? # # function resize($img, $w, $h, $newfilename) { #

# //Check if GD extension is loaded # if (!extension_loaded(‘gd’) && !extension_loaded(‘gd2’)) { # trigger_error(“GD is not loaded”, E_USER_WARNING); # return false; # } #

# //Get Image size info # $imgInfo = getimagesize($img); # switch ($imgInfo²) { # case 1: $im...

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Here is a very simple structure of how to use curl with post method –

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,‘http://example.com/target.php’);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST , 1);// setting up to use post method
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array(“fieldName1”=>“data1”,“fieldName2”=>“data2”));
$content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

I created a cron job which needs to run every 5 minutes. So it was sending me 12 emails per hour and my inbox got overwhelmed by email pretty soon. I had plesk control panel and plesk won’t let you leave email field empty so I started to look...

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Its a mystery to me, why it is so hard to create a wild card sub domain in plesk. Any way here is how it is done.

First go to Domains>domain.com>Dns Settings
Then go to “Add record” and add the following record

Record type: “A”
Domain Name: *.domain.com
IP Address: ip address...

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There are lots of help out there about how to edit a file in linux, how to use vi, vi command list. But what I failed to find is a simple article which will just tell me
how to open a file using vi, go to edit mode and finally...

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Here is a good article on how to store file in mysql using php

Blobbing Data With PHP and MySQL

This is a simple email address validation function. It can be used as a spam guard in the contact forms. It takes the email address and checks for DNS record of the domain name. So, from an email address like: sample@domain.com, it looks for DNS records against sample.com....

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There is an extra line break problem that we faced while retrieving value from a PHP script to Flash ActionScript. It seems like an extra new line is inserted after every line command. Like:

Line 1

Line 2

Line 3

To avoid this problem, variables should be parsed from the PHP script...

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Create your all ftp accounts in one place and never forget them. Also manage multiple FTP accounts and assign them to different users.

We were facing a problem with FTP accounts. We try to control the FTP information that our clients provides us. We do not give...

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To increase the file upload size of a site following variables need to be configured

memory_limit 64M [PHP_INI_ALL]
max_execution_time 600 [PHP_INI_ALL]
post_max_size 16M [PHP_INI_SYSTEM|PHP_INI_PERDIR]
upload_max_filesize 12M [PHP_INI_SYSTEM|PHP_INI_PERDIR]

You can change them in php.ini or htaccess

Now regarding these variables you will find in the php mannual which can be set where.
Bellow I have included the...

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