WordPress: PHP CGI Vs PHP FCGI
This is a little bit of a niche post, but it's all about a problem I had recently with my site. It was all to do with WordPress and how it responded when running under PHP as FastCGI instead of CGI.
View ArticleWriting Text On An Image With GD
Writing text on your images using GD is a handy ability to have. Maybe you are developing an imagehost or you have a project where you need to place text on an existing image. Whatever the reason here...
View ArticleSimple Data Sanitization with preg_replace
Sanitizing data is a very important part of any server side scripting language, and it's no different for PHP. So here is one simple way of sanitizing data using the dreaded REGEX.
View ArticleMeasuring The Speed Of PHP Scripts
It's always useful to run speed tests on your scripts to check how fast they are running, and so that you can then measure any improvements when you are optimizing scripts. Here is how I do it, plus a...
View ArticleStore Multiple Values In A Single Row MySQL – Revisited
I originally wrote a post about 2 year ago explaining how to store multiple values in a single MySQL row. Now I have more experience with PHP/MySQL I have decided to revisit this topic to clear up any...
View ArticlePHP Code Snippet: Quote of the Day Picker
While I've got a few minutes spare here is a little snippet of code that picks a random quote that changes every day from an array you provide.
View ArticleTip Of The Day: Convert Paragraphs To Returns
This may seem completely pointless, but I needed to do this for a client & it confused me for a while.
View ArticleWordPress Tip: rewind_posts() Not Working
I recently came across a small quirk when using rewind_posts(). Hopefully this small tip will save you the same confusion I suffered.
View ArticleCreating A WordPress Plugin Using OOP Techniques
I’ve been receiving a lot of requests for a tutorial showing how to write a plugin using Object Oriented Programming techniques, and so I thought I would give it a go while I have a few minutes spare....
View ArticleCleaning Up Your Code – A Developer’s PHP Tip
Today I thought I’d give you one of my famous developers tips. All right, so they aren’t famous. Yet! I’m sure, if you are a PHP developer, you have created a loop many a time. They are useful for all...
View ArticleAngularJS and Laravel Shopping List Application – Part 2
As promised here is the second part of building our Shopping List Application with the excellent AngularJS the JavaScript MVW framework. In this final part we are going to look at how to extend our...
View ArticleUsing PHP & MySQLi With A MySQL Database Part 3
This third part of explaining how to use PHP & MySQLi was inspired by ‘abr4xas’ who commented on part 2 of this tutorial. He/she asked how they would go about safely inserting data from the $_POST...
View ArticleCreating A Simple Website Using SensioLabs (Symfony) Silex and Twig
It’s been a long time since I last wrote a tutorial, all I can do is apologise for the long gap and tell you that it was mostly due to …
View ArticleAdding SwiftMailer to a Simple Website Using Silex and Twig
In our last tutorial we looked at how to make a very simple website using Silex and Twig. If you haven’t yet took a look I encourage you to do …
View ArticleReorder A Numerically Keyed Array Using Array Splice?
So today I was given an interesting task by a client. I had the output of a certain function. That function returns an array containing the days of the week …
View ArticleSimple Website with Silex and Twig: Adding Form Validation
In that last part of our tutorial we looked at how to add Swiftmailer to the contact form of our simple Silex website. This time we are going to look …
View ArticleUsing Composer To Stop Reinventing The Wheel
Let’s say you are developing a cool web application in PHP. Maybe it’s a cool, but very simple gallery. You build out your album system, then suddenly you hit a …
View ArticleCreating A WordPress Plugin With Composer and the Mailgun API
Composer is an extremely powerful tool for PHP developers and I love it, but how about when you are building a WordPress plugin? WordPress has a lot of built in …
View ArticleFill MySQL Table With Data From CSV
It’s probably been in every PHP ‘test’ going and is a very commonly asked question, but it’s something I’ve never covered here at Return True before. So what exactly is …
View ArticleAdding Content To Yoast SEO Analysis Using YoastSEOJS
I recently received a request from a previous client asking if I could debug why their custom field content had stopped being analysed by their Yoast SEO plugin. It turns …
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