NCweb 0.0.5 has been released, yay 🙂 You can grab a copy here if you’re curious about the changes, if not, carry on. If you want to read more about NCweb, check out the GitHub repository The initial announcement can be found here Spoiler alert: …
During a product launch I recently came across an “interesting” issue involving pdftk (and php-pdftk). Some of the developers had made assumptions (ever heard that one before?) about the operating environment and how things were/are configured. These assumptions were based on a development environment that …
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. …
While trying to configure some internal URL re-writing in nginx for a WordPress site, I ran across an annoying issue: Regardless of my re-writing efforts, WordPress would issue a re-direct (301) header (?!) This wouldn’t have been such a big deal if I didn’t want …
There are many posts about nginx, re-directs, PHP, and WordPress. There are somewhat fewer posts that talk about (internal) re-writes, where the request by the web browser is mangled to be served by another resource than the one requested. For example, I may want a …
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. …
/* * 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 …
So using SimpleXML in PHP is possibly one of the worst hells of typecasting and data extraction procedures one can encounter, or close to it 🙂 But more the point, you don’t need to walk down that road alone, enter JSON. In the simplest of …