FaceProject Creates Framed Photos Using PHP GD library

The above photo was generated using FaceProject, a PHP class that takes a photo of a person and generates a stylized and framed version of it. I spent last night creating FaceProject, simply to toy around with the GD library…

Setup a Production CentOS LAMP Web Server

Overview This article explains how to configure a production web server with CentOS Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP.  It will also explain how to harden the system to protect from typical intrusions.  All steps are required unless otherwise stated as…

How to Convert URL’s in Text to Links Using PHP

The function below takes in a string of text and converts all URL’s that start with "http://" to an HTML link. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19…

Setting up a Test Bench Web Server With Apache, PHP, MySQL, and More on Windows

Create a Website Directory This is the directory in which your websites will be stored. Create the main directory (“C:/websites”) Create a subdirectory for each website (“C:/websites/example”) Create a subdirectory for the live website content (“C:/websites/example/online”) Install Apache Go to…