diff --git a/www/lib/CoreLibs/Basic.php b/www/lib/CoreLibs/Basic.php
index 178190a4..da732eae 100644
--- a/www/lib/CoreLibs/Basic.php
+++ b/www/lib/CoreLibs/Basic.php
@@ -1956,6 +1956,56 @@ class Basic
 		return $return_data;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * reads the rotation info of an file and rotates it to be correctly upright
+	 * this is done because not all software honers the exit Orientation flag
+	 * @param  string $filename path + filename to rotate. This file must be writeable
+	 * @return void
+	 */
+	public function correctImageOrientation($filename): void
+	{
+		if (function_exists('exif_read_data') && is_writeable($filename)) {
+			list($inc_width, $inc_height, $type) = getimagesize($filename);
+			$exif = exif_read_data($filename);
+			$orientation = null;
+			$img = null;
+			if ($exif && isset($exif['Orientation'])) {
+				$orientation = $exif['Orientation'];
+			}
+			if ($orientation != 1) {
+				$this->debug('IMAGE FILE ROTATE', 'Need to rotate image ['.$filename.'] from: '.$orientation);
+				if ($type == 2) {
+					// load image to include
+					$img = imagecreatefromjpeg($filename);
+				} elseif ($type == 3) {
+					$img = imagecreatefrompng($filename);
+				}
+				$deg = 0;
+				// 1 top, 6: left, 8: right, 3: bottom
+				switch ($orientation) {
+					case 3:
+						$deg = 180;
+						break;
+					case 6:
+						$deg = -90;
+						break;
+					case 8:
+						$deg = 90;
+						break;
+				}
+				if ($deg && $img !== null) {
+					$img = imagerotate($img, $deg, 0);
+				}
+				// then rewrite the rotated image back to the disk as $filename
+				if ($type == 2 && $img !== null) {
+					imagejpeg($img, $filename);
+				} elseif ($type == 3 && $img !== null) {
+					imagepng($img, $filename);
+				}
+			} // only if we need to rotate
+		} // function exists & file is writeable, else do nothing
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * test if a string can be safely convert between encodings. mostly utf8 to shift jis
 	 * the default compare has a possibility of failure, especially with windows
@@ -2117,6 +2167,35 @@ class Basic
 		return false;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * creates psuedo random uuid v4
+	 * Code take from class here:
+	 * https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.uniqid.php#94959
+	 * @return string pseudo random uuid v4
+	 */
+	public static function uuidv4(): string
+	{
+		return sprintf(
+			'%04x%04x-%04x-%04x-%04x-%04x%04x%04x',
+			// 32 bits for "time_low"
+			mt_rand(0, 0xffff),
+			mt_rand(0, 0xffff),
+			// 16 bits for "time_mid"
+			mt_rand(0, 0xffff),
+			// 16 bits for "time_hi_and_version",
+			// four most significant bits holds version number 4
+			mt_rand(0, 0x0fff) | 0x4000,
+			// 16 bits, 8 bits for "clk_seq_hi_res",
+			// 8 bits for "clk_seq_low",
+			// two most significant bits holds zero and one for variant DCE1.1
+			mt_rand(0, 0x3fff) | 0x8000,
+			// 48 bits for "node"
+			mt_rand(0, 0xffff),
+			mt_rand(0, 0xffff),
+			mt_rand(0, 0xffff)
+		);
+	}
+
 	// [!!! DEPRECATED !!!]
 	// ALL crypt* methids are DEPRECATED and SHALL NOT BE USED
 	// use the new password* instead