[TUTORIAL] Cropping and Resizing Images in PHP
PHP is a great script language that has many applications when it comes to web development. It is a particularly useful tool when working with images. You can create and manipulate images files in variety of different formats (JPEG, PNG, GIF). If you are interested in manipulating animated GIFs, my coworker made a great tutorial about that. Today we’ll look at cropping and resizing images in PHP.
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[TUTORIAL] Building a Database
An important step in the process of building a website or web application is the conception of the data structure. Most of the problems that come up during the development of project come from a poorly conceived database. Bad modeling will create superfluous terms, incapacity and lost data. Good modeling makes the project more flexible for possible improvements. The more robust your model is, the less issues you will run intro when you retrieve data through PHP or ASP. It also makes access to the data faster and simpler.
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[TUTORIAL] Server Configuration – cURL
During the deployment of one of our last projects on a client’s server, we had difficulties because we didn’t consider the difference between local and remote servers earlier enough. We had to go into a long debug process before realizing that the problem was not a programming issue but instead came from the server’s PHP configuration
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[TUTORIAL] Retrieving Data from a Server into a JavaScript Variable
During the developpement of a website, I had to manipulate data (which came from a database) through a JavaScript variable. I already knew how to retrieve data from a database into a PHP variable but I didn’t know how to make the connection with a JavaScript variable.
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[TUTORIAL] How to Resize an Animated GIF Without Losing the Animation in PHP
One question that you may ask yourself when you work with images is if it is possible to resize an animated GIF and keep the animation. We will see here the different steps to do that in PHP, without using any special library like ImageMagick or something else.
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