Found a great function for image resize in php. It requires php >= 4.3.0.
I found the source in
http://www.akemapa.com/2008/07/10/php-gd-resize-transparent-image-png-gif/

<?
function resize($img, $w, $h, $newfilename) {
    #
    //Check if GD extension is loaded
    #
    if (!extension_loaded('gd') && !extension_loaded('gd2'))...

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Here is a very simple structure of how to use curl with post method –

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,'http://example.com/target.php');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);	
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST , 1);// setting up to use post method
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array("fieldName1"=>"data1","fieldName2"=>"data2"));							
$content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

I created a cron job which needs to run every 5 minutes. So it was sending me 12 emails per hour and my inbox got overwhelmed by email pretty soon. I had plesk control panel and plesk won’t let you leave email field empty so I started to look...

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Here is a good article on how to store file in mysql using php

Blobbing Data With PHP and MySQL

Found a great function for image resize in php. It requires php >= 4.3.0.
I found the source in
http://www.akemapa.com/2008/07/10/php-gd-resize-transparent-image-png-gif/

<?
function resize($img, $w, $h, $newfilename) {
    #
    //Check if GD extension is loaded
    #
    if (!extension_loaded('gd') && !extension_loaded('gd2'))...

more..

Here is a very simple structure of how to use curl with post method –

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,'http://example.com/target.php');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);	
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST , 1);// setting up to use post method
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array("fieldName1"=>"data1","fieldName2"=>"data2"));							
$content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

I created a cron job which needs to run every 5 minutes. So it was sending me 12 emails per hour and my inbox got overwhelmed by email pretty soon. I had plesk control panel and plesk won’t let you leave email field empty so I started to look...

more..

Here is a good article on how to store file in mysql using php

Blobbing Data With PHP and MySQL