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We are looking for freelance PHP programmers with initiative and entrepreneurial spirit to help us, first, take on the surplus of projects that our clients request to us and we can’t accept due to lack of time. On the other hand, but not least important, we would like to find reliable people to form a strong team to undertake and develop some projects we have in mind and others that someone may propose.

Regarding the first scenario, we would like to establish a collaborative relationship in which we would be the interface to the customer and you would perform the analysis and programming tasks that we entrusted after reaching an agreement on the economic conditions of each job, although we ideally would establish a general fee of €X per hour reviewable if any particular case might arise. We are also programmers, so you will always have the help and support you need from us to carry out assigned projects. If collaboration in this first stage is successful, we will love to develop the second stage with you.

In certain versions of ImageMagick there is a problem (probably due to a bug) when trying to convert or manipulate an image either from the command line (convert command) or through one of the many API’s available (for example PHP). The CPU usage suddenly grows beyond 100% (because this problem occurs on multiprocessor systems) and the system becomes extremely slow. Apart from this high CPU load, the conversion process also gets blocked, never reaching to the end. This occurs even with small images of few kilobytes.

This post shows how to perform a partial or full backup of MySQL databases using only PHP code. This is very useful for example when a client doesn’t provide you with access data to the database of a web application and you only have an FTP connection available, or when you do have the connection data to the database but you can’t access it through the network (only available from localhost) and you can’t use tools like mysqldump to back up the information you need because you don’t have privileges for this, or simply because you have no access to a shell to which connect and run commands.