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img4me just released an API to their text to image service. This basically allows you to send any peice of text through a URL and have it convert it into an image. Now you wouldn’t want to convert a whole paragraph, but this does work especially nice for email addresses or other information you don’t [...]

Things you’ll need: PHP jQuery jQueryRotate plugin DEMO | DOWNLOAD PROJECT We’ll first setup the control div since it should help make things clearer starting here. We have the two rotate buttons (clockwise and anit-clockwise) and the save button to save our final rotated image. We also have an input box that will store the [...]

Dave in Michigan contacted me and wanted to know if it was possible to take the script used from this previous post and only display the last X number of pictures uploaded to a directory. Something to note before you get started though. The script will read the entire directory so if you have a [...]

This is a more practical way to display an image or text while an AJAX request is loading. DEMO | DOWNLOAD FILES What we’re basically doing is forcing a DIV to have a starting image and then replacing it with the text return from the AJAX request. function loadingAjax(div_id) { $(“#”+div_id).html(‘ saving…’); $.ajax({ type: “POST”, [...]

After searching around for the better part of this morning, I finally figured out why my file upload script was not working correctly. When I setup the domain I did not even check to see if it was turned on since I did it relatively quickly, but right there in the “Hosting Settings” is an [...]

This is an addition to the Find Time Between Two Dates in PHP post. Here is a quick way to find the years and months between two dates using PHP. The dates are not exact since we’re assuming that each year and month has the same number of seconds. function yearMonthDifference($start_date, $end_date) { // 31556926 [...]

Earlier this week I had an interesting problem. I needed to have some javascript code run from within the page being called via AJAX. The javascript relied on the values being set in the page being called so it could not be setup on the page before hand. It had to be called afterward. It [...]

For work we needed a way to allow the customer to preview what their Bible imprint text would look like before they placed their order. I’m sure there are ways to do this with JavaScript, but we chose to do this with PHP to prevent the site from relying on Javascript (there was already enough [...]

A while back we wrote an article on how to fade images in and out from a single directory using jQuery and another plugin, but today we’re going to add…actually we’re going to totally redo the way we did it in the past. The new way should leave a much smaller footprint. View Demo

I’m just finishing up a little project to improve the search ability on a website and I want to display an image and message say “loading…” until the script finished running. Below is an easy way to do that. UPDATE: Please view the updated way to do this that is a little more practical in [...]