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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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How to create image courusel for product card on Catalog page Woocomerce Wordpress
I use WordPress and Woocomerce. I have created a Catalog page with a grid of product cards. My endpoint is to create a slider (carousel) of images instead of one featured image now. When I created the ...
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Bootstrap Collapse on unordered list doesn't react on first click
I have created a filetree page on a website and added some bootstrap collapse stuff which basically does all I want. The list of files and folders is shown with all tree branches uncollapsed initially....
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Livewire components or controllers
There are many questions like this, but none explain more than "use only Livewire components" or "use Livewire only for interactivity." Also, I cant find live code bases of real ...
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Fastest way to remove \r and \n characters in a string in PHP in 2024?
I need to replace a few characters ("\r" and "\n") in a string and need the fastest most efficient way to do so because this code will run on a large scale.
I've searched and found ...
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I get 401 unauthorized error after successful login in reactjs app with laravel & sanctum
I have created an app with React while using Laravel 10 as back-end (using Sanctum for auth).
When I try to log in on first attempt I get "401: unauthorized" error, but on second attempt it ...
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PHP webDav client gives ClientException: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate
I want to upload files to NextCloud via PHP on Windows 11. I do not know PHP much but I managed to install sabre/dav via composer
Then I found on the internet simple code sample to list files.
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How to set the first order status as a custom status for newly created orders from Woocommerce Rest API?
We use a platform called BaseLinker, which sends orders from other marketplaces to our WooCommerce store through Rest API. The problem is that initially the orders have a status of "Payment ...
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How to pass data to a webserver [closed]
I'm having a mobile app (osmand), which can trigger HTTP requests in the for of
https://example.com?lat={0}&lon={1}×tamp={2}&hdop={3}&altitude={4}&speed={5}
Now i want to ...
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index.php: <?php declare(strict_types=1); $encoded = json_encode($_GET ?? null); assert(is_string($encoded)); is_string($encoded) && error_log($encoded); You find it in the error log you'...
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Laravel 11: Is it possible to force PHPUnit to trigger / "press" CTRL+C to simulate interruption of an artisan command?
I have an artisan command that can run for minutes or hours, processing multitude of records in a loop within the handle() method.
I have introduced the ability to interrupt such a long process by ...
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With pcntl_signal() you register the signal handler. with posix_kill() you can send a signal (cf. kill(1), full example on the PHP manual pcntl_signal page). Now if you have the process id (PID) of ...
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php.ini Path Disagreement
There are two tools commonly used to identify the configuration file path of php.ini. But in my environment, Ubuntu running Apache and PHP 8.2.21, the two tools disagree.
From my browser, running a ...
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I'm actually glad you're asking this question in this direkt form: Is this a disagreement? Let's see the observations again: From my browser, running a php which invokes phpinfo() yields: /etc/php/8....
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PHP webDav client gives ClientException: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate
I want to upload files to NextCloud via PHP on Windows 11. I do not know PHP much but I managed to install sabre/dav via composer
Then I found on the internet simple code sample to list files.
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Run composer installer that also ships with the certificates. Then use the composer diagnose command to verify they are available. Then retry with the webdav PHP script. It is perhaps already solved ...
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When will a laravel model creation fail without an exception?
I am adding a store method to a controller that will create and save a new model to the database using the following code:
public function store(Request $request)
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$validated = $request->...
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$team = Team::create($validated); Given that team was actually created (as a new class), $team will be that new object. Therefore, in the very unlikely event that no exception was thrown albeit not ...
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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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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 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 ($a contains 'are')?
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How do I get a YouTube video thumbnail from the YouTube API?
If I have a YouTube video URL, is there any way to use PHP and cURL to get the associated thumbnail from the YouTube API?
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Deleting an element from an array in PHP
Is there an easy way to delete an element from an array using PHP, such that foreach ($array) no longer includes that element?
I thought that setting it to null would do it, but apparently it does ...
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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
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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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