NCweb is a reasonably small (ish) PHP “application” that will allow you to expose a given folder of a Nextcloud instance and serve documents from it as if it would have been a regular website. The folder does not have to be shared in Nextcloud. …
Using the APIs over at trafiklab.se can yield some quite useful results. I needed to be able to display the commute stop departure times for public transport in a given place, so I wrote this WordPress plugin called Stopsign. It uses the Trafiklab.se API. The …
I’ve been using SwiftMailer for as long as I can remember because it’s, IMHO, a great library and far more logical than PHPMailer and “others”. While maintaining a PHP5 codebase for a rather large project, I ran into an issue while using ISO-8859-15 encoded data. …
Lightbox (or “image preview”) functionality for Bootstrap 4 without additional libraries (apart from jQuery). Written by Joaquim Homrighausen <joho@webbplatsen.se> 30-May-2019 TEAMYUJO Do as you wish with this 🙂 This is the Javascript/jQuery code for the Bootstrap 4 modal. You don’t have to use jQuery to …
/* * Simple password construct validator for PHP * Joaquim Homrighausen <joho@webbplatsen.se> * May 30, 2019 * TEAMYUJO * * Do whatever you want with this snippet 🙂 * * This may not necessarily agree with the section * “Strength of Memorized Secrets” in the …
Running a PHP script from the command-line, or CLI, is quite useful at times and is often used to perform some automated task, like a CRON cleanup script, to send out reminders, etc. It’s common that these CLI scripts need some, but possibly not all, …
This is, perhaps, obvious to most PHP developers. But it came somewhat as a surprise to me. Using is_numeric () for validating a WordPress version string, such as ‘4.7’, does not seem to work very well when WordPress introduces minor releases such as ‘4.7.1’. Since …
Using jQueryMobile for a fairly lightweight “mobile site”, I wonder what all you experts say about selection sets. A (long) list of countries for example. To prevent excessive delays, I now split country selection in two screens. The first one shows A-Ö (A-Z for you …
DISCLAIMER: There’s nothing revolutionary with what you are about to read, should you continue 🙂 This is simply something I did to avoid having to use a debugger where using a debugger wasn’t practical; and also to avoid having to emit “debug output” throughout the …