php4 – Tarik Billa

Generate preview image from Video file?

May 3, 2023 by Tarik

Solution #1 (Older) (not recommended) Firstly install ffmpeg-php project (http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net/) And then you can use of this simple code: <?php $frame = 10; $movie=”test.mp4″; $thumbnail=”thumbnail.png”; $mov = new ffmpeg_movie($movie); $frame = $mov->getFrame($frame); if ($frame) { $gd_image = $frame->toGDImage(); if ($gd_image) { imagepng($gd_image, $thumbnail); imagedestroy($gd_image); echo ‘<img src=”‘.$thumbnail.'”>’; } } ?> Description: This project use binary … Read more

How do I use PHP to get the current year?

September 12, 2022 by Tarik

You can use either date or strftime. In this case I’d say it doesn’t matter as a year is a year, no matter what (unless there’s a locale that formats the year differently?) For example: <?php echo date(“Y”); ?> On a side note, when formatting dates in PHP it matters when you want to format … Read more