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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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I click on the submit button and it gives me a white screen in Codio
I am doing this all in Codio. On my registration form I click on the submit button and it pops up a white screen but if I download the regForm.php it gives me a text document with this on the screen. ...
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sharing to LinkedIn using curl and PHP - post photo AND URL to click through
I am building an app to make posts to a LinkedIn page, written in PHP, using the curl library. I have successfully:
Authenticated (scopes: w_member_social, openid, profile, email
Registered and ...
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How to utilize components for develop module in Lararvel
I have a Laravel Blade page where I implemented CRUD operations with DataTables.
Currently, the form and Bootstrap modal are written directly inside the page (index.blade.php).
Our team already has ...
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No AuthenticationProvider present
A user, who changed some of their profile information, can also be impersonating another user during this time. When this is detected, I'd like to continue this impersonation.
When I call setIdentity()...
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How do you log from a Temporal activity with the PHP SDK?
Logging from a workflow is trivial, Workflow::getLogger() gives you a Psr\Log\LoggerInterface object. But how do I log from an activity? https://docs.temporal.io/develop/php/platform/observability ...
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Order of loading classes in PHP
Please explain the mechanism of loading classes in PHP, and why the first example does not cause an error, but the second does?
From documentation:
Classes should be defined before instantiation (and ...
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Yes, I found that out as well, and changed the reply accordingly. The two phases idea was flawed.
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How can I detect and exclude bot traffic in PHP before sending data to Google Analytics?
I'm trying to reduce bot traffic in my analytics reports by filtering known crawler user agents on the server side before tracking requests.
Currently I'm using this PHP code:
<?php
$bot_agents = [...
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Exactly - perhaps I didn't articulate it but I was trying to make the point that the OP's approach is both inefficient (they can still be DDOSed for example) and overly simplistic.
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Inputs dynamically added and filled out in new Mozilla version
I've got a php, javascript, html code that is working in an old PC with windows 7 and Mozilla 115.34.1esr (32-bit). I'm trying the same code in computers with windows 11 and 10 that have mozilla 150....
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Why does a non-match on an empty string with PHP's sscanf() return -1 instead of 0?
I ran into a bug in my code today when I null-coalesced a submission value to an empty string which was being validated and sanitized by sscanf(). My coding intention was to only call a method when ...
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All the way at the bottom of PHPAPI in php_scanf_internal() @ php-src/ext/standard /scanf.c there is a condition that mirrors the inherited behavior of C's scanf(). Effectively, if the input string is ...
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coordinate proximity for likert scale analysis (php)
this is a project in php but i am happy with any suggestions, regardless of language. the coding is less the issue than a missing piece in logic i am struggling with.
users answer a series of 7-point ...
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To be honest, no, you're not making much sense. What you're saying cannot be understood by someone who has a deeper knowledge of mathematics. I stopped responding because of this. I'm also Dutch, and ...
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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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Quick guide to Laravel package development
Contents
Introduction
Types of packages
Characteristics of a package
The Laravel package!
Components of a Laravel package
Example of a Laravel package
Creating your Laravel package
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Properly removing API from Laravel project
Sometimes a development team may decide to remove all API functionality from a Laravel project for various reasons, such as:
No longer needing any API, and shifting focus to web application with ...
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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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