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Start learning PHP — Useful resources for beginners and advanced
Start learning PHP — Useful resources for beginners and advanced!
If you're wondering where to start from learning the PHP language or needing some more knowledge to deep dive into the language, you ...
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PHP code issue causing grid container and bootstrap 5 cards (grid-items) not to render on web-page loading?
I am trying to create a grid container that will dynamically display bootstrap cards of treeseed items that I added to MySQL database.The items should be displayed on the shop portion of a webpage I ...
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Has anyone successfully managed to configure a PHP class method to retrieve a CheckoutId for a Sumup Payment Widget
Our HTML/Javascript client sends a request to our PHP proxy Class and method to invoke the communication with the Sumup API.
The Sumup Developer Documentation appears to require three steps:
Use Curl ...
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PHP exec() command not working as expected
I have a PHP process (backup-generic) that builds and then executes a command to perform backups on various directories. The net result of this command, when I execute for a particular user's home ...
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Exclude products with specific metadata from WooCommerce recent products widget
I am currently trying to exclude specific products from the WooCommerce recent products widget.
Specifically, I want to prevent products with specific metadata from being displayed: Meta key ...
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Laravel Socialite Google OAuth with Sanctum: Session created but user_id is null after login
I'm building an API-only SPA with Laravel Sanctum and Nuxt3, using cookie-based session authentication. I’ve implemented Google OAuth using Laravel Socialite.
Here’s my current setup for the Google ...
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Laravel 11 Artisan lang:publish generates empty lang folder
Following the documentation, I tried to run php artisan lang:publish but it generates an empty lang folder. I would expect there will be at least messages.php file for English. Can somebody tell me ...
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How can I post via API to a Facebook Page without having my "Facebook App" suspended/deleted?
How can I post via API to a Facebook Page without having my "Facebook App" suspended/deleted?
I need to share a URLs per day, via API, from my own script to a Facebook Page I manage.
I ...
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Seeding value in PHP
I was going through this article
https://www.ambionics.io/blog/php-mt-rand-prediction
which claims that if we use mt_rand(), we can get the seed value using two values instead of brute forcing.
In the ...
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Seeding means providing the initial state. Every time you seed with the same number, you will get the same set of pseudo-random numbers, no matter what machine you run it on. You can think of it as ...
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filter_input always returns null [duplicate]
I must be doing something fundamentally wrong here, but I cannot see what it is. In the process of discovering what exactly filter_input does, I wrote this test to show the gozintas and gozoutas.
for($...
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You manually set $_GET['c1'] in your test script within a loop and then trying to get it with filter_input. Since filter_input fetches the data from the original HTTP request, it doesn't recognize ...
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Use different .env file for Laravel application?
Laravel comes by default with a .env file that comes under the root folder when you create a new project. I am having a fresh Laravel installation with this folder structure
root/
├── docker/
│ ├── ...
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I'm not sure this approach works,( without testing). We used this to map other files/folders into the project. It is the same theory you can use, too services: app: env_file: - "...
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php time round up & round down
I am using the following function to round the time to closest 15 minutes.
function roundTime($time){
$seconds = $time;
$rounded_seconds = round($seconds / (15 * 60)) * (15 * 60);
return ...
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If you want something fully flexible where you can choose the rounding interval and the direction, you can pass these options in as arguments to the function, perhaps like this: function roundTime($...
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imagemagick (legacy) center, resize, move, crop watermark
So i have imagemagick Version: ImageMagick 6.9.11-60
To make the process easier I created a ready png file with a repeating pattern at the right angle, with the right transparency which is always ...
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I managed to cobble something together that more-or-less does the job. It reads the image files from the server, and stores the output on the server as well. It looks like this: function ...
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How can I prevent SQL injection in PHP?
If user input is inserted without modification into an SQL query, then the application becomes vulnerable to SQL injection, like in the following example:
$unsafe_variable = $_POST['user_input'];
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How do I check if a string contains a specific word?
Consider:
$a = 'How are you?';
if ($a contains 'are')
echo 'true';
Suppose I have the code above, what is the correct way to write the statement if ($a contains 'are')?
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Reference Guide: What does this symbol mean in PHP? (PHP Syntax)
What is this?
This is a collection of questions that come up now and then about syntax in PHP. This is also a Community Wiki, so everyone is invited to participate in maintaining this list.
This ...
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How do I get a YouTube video thumbnail from the YouTube API?
If I have a YouTube video URL, is there any way to use PHP and cURL to get the associated thumbnail from the YouTube API?
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Deleting an element from an array in PHP
Is there an easy way to delete an element from an array using PHP, such that foreach ($array) no longer includes that element?
I thought that setting it to null would do it, but apparently it does ...
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Understanding the final Keyword in PHP: Preventing Inheritance and Overriding
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When working with Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in PHP, controlling the inheritance of classes and methods is essential for maintaining stability and security in your code. PHP ...
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How to trim (or non-breaking space) in PHP?
The main problem is the way trim() function works.
One cannot reliably trim a substring using this function, because it takes its second argument as a collection of characters, each of which would be ...
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Evolution of Type Declarations in PHP
Introduction:
PHP, being a dynamically typed language, traditionally allowed flexibility in variable types, providing both advantages and challenges in code maintenance and robustness. However, with ...
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Start learning PHP — Useful resources for beginners and advanced
Start learning PHP — Useful resources for beginners and advanced!
If you're wondering where to start from learning the PHP language or needing some more knowledge to deep dive into the language, you ...
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