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Image sizes in Perl

If you need for figure out the size of an image, fetch Image::Size from CPAN , it’s just what you need. The module recognizes the most common image-formats such as JPG, GIF, PNG, PSD, TIFF and plenty more. The interface is simple and will get you what you need with no trouble at all. #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Image::Size; # Just fetch the size my ($size_x, $size_y) = Image::Size::imgsize('test.jpg'); print "Image is: $size_y x $size_x (height x width)\n"; # HTML-friendly format my $size = Image::Size::html_imgsize('test.

Image sizes and PHP

If you have the GD extension available, you can do a few useful things. One of the simple things is getting an image size is a simple matter. You can either fetch the height and width in seperate variables – or even fetch the height and width in a string pre-formatted for use in an image tag. Here’s the example in source: $load\_ext = get\_loaded\_extensions(); if (!in\_array(gd, $load\_ext)) { echo "GD is NOT available"; die(); } $nikonFile = '.

Reading Exif data with PHP

Within most photos from digital cameras besides the actual image, there’s a little ”information block” call EXIF data. If you have the correct PHP extension installed on your server – the one called ”exif” – it’s pretty easy to read the EXIF data and display them, as you like. First, let’s check if the extension is available? $load\_ext = get\_loaded\_extensions(); if (!in\_array(exif, $load\_ext)) { echo "Exif is NOT available"; } else { echo "Exif extension is available.

Simple benchmarks in PHP

If you’re doing some basic profiling of your PHP scripts, the build-in microtime function can help you make some simple benchmarking fast. Here’s a rough example to show you how it could be used. The doSomething function is the function we want to benchmark. $time = microtime(); $time = explode(' ', $time); $time = $time\[1\] + $time\[0\]; $start = $time; doSomething(); $time = microtime(); $time = explode(' ', $time); $time = $time\[1\] + $time\[0\]; $finish = $time; $total\_time = round(($finish - $start), 6); if ($debug) print ("<p>Processing took approximately $total\_time seconds</p>");

Create a random password with PHP

Some websites require access control, and sometimes you may need to generate a password for a user. Here’s a simple function that can do just that. The $base-variable contains the characters allowed in the password. The supplied string may be changed, but the selected charaters should exist on all keyboards (as far as I know). When calling the function, you can specify the lenght of the password you want. Simple, right?