Submitted by mattman on Fri, 02/03/2012 - 15:51
JW Player is a solid video player that is very simple to setup and use. One of my projects in the past required that I add text overlays on top of the Flash videos that were being played. This is not quite the same as a watermark that is burned into the video itself. It is merely a way to add dynamic text on top of the video without needing to re-encode it. I've developed a plugin called Textmark that will allow for text to be overlaid on top of a video.
Submitted by mattman on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 23:40
jQuery is a very powerful javascript library that I use all the time. For the most part, I find that it's simple to use, yet easy enough to do very advanced things. Anyone who has used jQuery knows that you can do quite a lot with selectors. One of the caveats that I run into often is using a selector for a DOM element that contains special characters. jQuery requires many characters to be escaped in the selector in order to function properly. The problem here is that jQuery doesn't offer a function that will escape your selector value for you. I've created such a function here:
Submitted by mattman on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 21:24
I've recently been tasked with creating a US state selection box. Here is a PHP array that I used to generate the html select box. I hope it will save others some time:
Submitted by mattman on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 02:48
Development for TotalCalendar 3.0 has started. It actually started a LONG time ago. However, I recently decided to do a complete rewrite from the ground up. The new version is being designed for speed and efficiency. So far it's off to a great start. There are a few main goals for the new version:
Welcome to TotalDev.com!
TotalDev.com is the long-overdue replacement for the old SweetPHP.com plus a whole lot more. This site will offer the same software including future improvements and upgrades as well as articles, tutuorials and code snippets from time to time. The site is still in the transition phase and during this time relevant content from the old site is still being moved over. So if you don't see something that used to be here, it should be coming soon.
Submitted by mattman on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 20:38
Have you ever needed to grab a still frame from a video clip and display it as a thumbnail image on your website? This process can be pretty simple with the right tools. I've run into several situations when I've needed to extract frames of a video and display it as a thumbnail inside a page.
Requirements:
Webserver running PHP
ffmpeg installed on server (this post will not cover the installation process)
PHP Code:
