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vijinho / mp3tool.php

Last active November 8, 2021 10:11

Tool to list, view and manipulate .mp3 files using PHP wrapped around command-line tools id3tool and id3v2

	#!/usr/bin/php
	<?php
	// Script example.php

	// check CLI commands are available
	$commands = getCommands();
	if (empty($commands)) exit;

	// see https://secure.php.net/manual/en/function.getopt.php
	// : - required, :: - optional

vijinho / array_clear.php

Last active January 6, 2025 12:59

Function in PHP to throw out empty values from an array (and optional drop values which have specified keys passed-in)

	<?php

	/**
	* Clear an array of empty values and specified keys
	*
	* @param array $keys array keys to explicitly remove regardless
	* @return array the trimmed down array
	*/
	function array_clear($array, $keys = [])
	{

vijinho / load_save.php

Last active October 12, 2018 20:24

PHP simple load, save functions for file to php array with value and charset type conversion

	<?php

	/**
	* Clear an array of empty values
	*
	* @param array $keys array keys to explicitly remove regardless
	* @return array the trimmed down array
	*/
	function array_clear($array, $keys = [])
	{

vijinho / debug_verbose.php

Last active January 6, 2025 11:04

output text if DEBUG or VERBOSE constant set

	<?php
	define('DEBUG', 1);
	define('VERBOSE', 1);

	// Output verbose message if VERBOSE constant is set
	function verbose(string $message, mixed $data = ''): bool {
	if (VERBOSE && !empty($message)) {
	echo trim('[V ' . memoryUsage() . '] ' . $message) . "\n";
	if (!empty($data)) {
	print_r($data);

vijinho / ytdl.sh

Created December 30, 2018 14:07

wrapper for youtube-dl

	caffeinate -i youtube-dl --yes-playlist --download-archive archive.log -r 768k \
	--skip-unavailable-fragments --playlist-random --write-info-json \
	--write-description --no-check-certificate --prefer-insecure \
	--sleep-interval 10 --max-sleep-interval 50 \
	--ignore-errors \
	$1

vijinho / pdf-compress.php

Last active May 6, 2019 14:18

re-compress PDFs, shrinking if possible improved version of https://gist.github.com/vijinho/724ebfac4739019fd36baa2ab8e2aca2 just run ‘php /path/to/pdf-compress.php’ in current working directory to re-compress all PDFs within

	<?php
	/**
	* pdf-compress.php - re-compress PDFs, shrinking if possible
	* WARNING: May run extremely slowly due to very large file sizes generated on pdf2ps
	*
	* relies on command-line tools, tested on ubuntu.
	*
	* @license GPLv3 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html)
	*/

vijinho / pdf-compress1.php

Last active May 6, 2019 14:18

Original version of pdf-compress.php https://gist.github.com/vijinho/e5ee78e13b8c7ad9f171593234daa2ad

	<?php
	/**
	* pdf-compress.php - re-compress PDFs, shrinking if possible
	* WARNING: May run extremely slowly due to very large file sizes generated on pdf2ps
	*
	* relies on command-line tools, tested on ubuntu.
	*
	* @license GPLv3 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html)
	*/

vijinho / pdf_rename_metadata.php

Last active April 25, 2019 11:31

get metadata from file using exiftool https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/#filename and compare to previous metadata file to see savings of filesize

	<?php
	/**
	* pdf_rename_metadata.php - get metadata from files readable with exiftool and rename
	* creates 2 cache files, metadata.ser and metadata.old.ser
	* where old.ser is the old version of metadata.ser for comparison
	*
	* https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/#filename
	* see https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/exiftool_pod.html
	*
	* relies on command-line tools, tested on MacOS.

vijinho / get_exiftool_metadata.php

Last active April 25, 2019 20:35

Get the exif(tool) metadata for a file

	<?php
	/**
	* get-metadata.php - get metadata from files readable with exiftool
	* creates 2 cache files, metadata.ser and metadata.old.ser
	* where old.ser is the old version of metadata.ser for comparison
	*
	* https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/#filename
	* see https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/exiftool_pod.html
	*
	* relies on command-line tools, tested on MacOS.

vijinho / pdf-rename.php

Last active May 3, 2019 00:17

Finds a list of files readable with exiftool (used for PDFs mainly) and present renaming/view options for MacOS

	<?php
	/**
	* get-rename.php - get metadata from files readable with exiftool
	* and presents options for renaming
	* creates cache files, metadata.ser
	*
	* https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/#filename
	* see https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/exiftool_pod.html
	*
	* relies on command-line tools, tested on MacOS.

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