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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Here’s the follow-up article on how to easily get file sizes nicely formated. Below is a quick function that will display the file size in KB, MB, or GB all easily accessed through a function. function formatbytes($file, $type) { switch($type){ case “KB”: $filesize = filesize($file) * .0009765625; // bytes to KB break; case “MB”: $filesize [...]

Below is a quick PHP function that allows you to find the time between two dates. The dates must be in seconds from Unix Epoch. if(!function_exists(timeBetween)) { function timeBetween($start_date,$end_date) { $diff = $end_date-$start_date; $seconds = 0; $hours = 0; $minutes = 0; if($diff % 86400 0) { $rest = ($diff % 86400); $days = ($diff [...]