Recently I had to migrate all MySQL databases from one server to another. This was a one time only operation, so setting up replication wasn't an option. And restoring a backup on the new server involved more downtime than strictly necessary. I figured the most ideal way would be to dump the active MySQL directly into the new MySQL instance. And that's what I did.

Or: How to convert multipage TIFF to PDF in PHP. Let's say you have a fax with multiple pages that has been stored as a TIFF and you want to convert it to PDF using PHP for digital document flow. In this article I will show you a tiff2pdf function for PHP, because it cannot be done directly with ImageMagick.