Archive for September, 2007

Coppermine 1.4.13 released

The Coppermine team has announced that version 1.4.13, a security release to fix a potential XSS vulnerability, has been released.

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Content aware image resizing

The technology seems pretty slick, although I don’t really understand everything that’s said. This video explains a technique where an image is resized based on what’s in the image rather than simply cropping or scaling.

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How to embed YouTube videos in SMF forum

There is a mod for SMF that allows you to embed YouTube videos fairly easily, but I didn’t find it until after I worked out a way that I think works as well and doesn’t take a separate modification, plus it’s pretty mindless to add Google or Yahoo videos as well.
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arraySwap PHP function

I needed an easy way to swap two elements of a PHP array and came up with this function. It returns either the array with the two elements swapped or False if there’s a problem.
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* Swaps two elements of an array

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* This function will return the boolean <i>False</i> if $arr_source [...]

Wordpress plugin to view user meta data

One of the really great, although probably overlooked by most users, features of Wordpress is that you can store meta data on your users. You probably already know that you can do this for posts, but it’s possible to use the _usermeta table to keep track of custom user settings as well.

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