Articles posted under “ PHP ”

by Paul Bradley, a programmer with over 20 years software development experience.

• Creating a filled circle in a PNG file using PHP, for use as a CSS sprite in a rounded corners box affect.
  Using the GD graphics functions of PHP to draw a coloured circle on a coloured background within a PNG file, for use as a CSS sprite, in addling rounded corners to a DIV.
• How to automatically capture images of a series of web sites and create thumbnails of the resulting image files.
  Using the windows command line tool IECapt to capture Internet Explorer's rendering of a web page to a JPEG file; and then using a PHP script to resize the image to a thumbnail.
• Using fsockopen with HTTP POST requests over an SSL connection
  At first it appeared that I would need to use the Curl module, but after some further reading discovered you could use the fsockopen function with SSL connections.
• Creating a HTML selection list of file names matching a criteria.
  Creating a HTML selection list of file names matching a criteria.
• Plotting Postcode Items onto UK Google Maps.
  A useful Google Maps resource, explains how to plot items onto UK Google Maps using UK postcodes. Covers converting OS grid co-ordinates to WGS84 and more ..
• PHP GD2 function ImageCopyMerge - setting the opacity of an image.
  Reducing the opacity of an image using PHP graphics functions GD2 ImageCopyMerge.