PHP

2023-10-03T00:00:00.000Z 3rd October 2023

Get your Pocket Casts data using the unofficial API and PHP

Learn how to get your Pocket Casts data using PHP and the undocumented API

2023-08-10T00:00:00.000Z 10th August 2023

PHP Ternary and null coalescing operators

What's the difference between a ternary and null coalescing operators? Do they give different results?

2023-07-12T00:00:00.000Z 12th July 2023

Docker image with Node, PHP and Composer

Using Alpine, you can build a lightweight Docker image which contains all the tech you need to deploy your LAMP stack

2021-05-03T00:00:00.000Z 3rd May 2021

Using a few lines of PHP to programmatically upload an image to Cloudinary

This quick block post shows how to upload an image to Cloudinary using PHP, using their provided SDK

2021-03-22T00:00:00.000Z 22nd March 2021

Automatically deploying your Lumen App with PHP Deployer (and zero downtime) so you don't have to manually do it

PHP Deployer is a great little utility for deploying your PHP app via command line. It doesn't force you to use any specific tech stack and simplifies the process of getting your app live.

2020-09-15T00:00:00.000Z 15th September 2020

Composer - creating a private package to include your own PHP class

I am currently in the midst of developing a new side-project and wanted to use the same class as a base for two separate elements of the project.

2019-04-20T00:00:00.000Z 20th April 2019

How to use fetch in JavaScript to GET or POST data

Fetch is a fantastic JavaScript function which allows you to natively get and post data from the browser. This post includes some examples of how to use it.

2018-10-18T00:00:00.000Z 18th October 2018

Using Vue.js with a Lumen powered API

Written For Liquid Light

Lumen is a micro-framework from the creators of Laravel. Using Laravel methodology, Lumen offers a leaner, cut-down version of the framework. By including less code, Lumen is able to offer ...

2018-03-12T00:00:00.000Z 12th March 2018

Backup Gitlab data locally

I've recently moved all of my git repositories to Gitlab, this blog post walks through a script I have written to clone all of my repositories locally as a backup.

2015-06-17T00:00:00.000Z 17th June 2015

Export Locko to 1Password

Getting your passwords out of Locko into something else can be tricky due to their unique export format. This post helps with PHP

2014-12-03T00:00:00.000Z 3rd December 2014

PHP Classes - Explained

To put it very simply, a PHP class is a way of grouping a set of functions and variables into entities,allowing them to be used as self-contained instances.

2013-05-18T00:00:00.000Z 18th May 2013

Wordpress - Pulling An Archive

As I mentioned in my first post I have made an archive of my previous Wordpress blog posts into a static page. This is done through some SQL and ...

2012-05-18T00:00:00.000Z 18th May 2012

#PHPFED - Variables

Before you continue - make sure you understand the story. The next thing is that php lines always need to end with a semi-colon (;). This tells php that the line ...

2012-05-10T00:00:00.000Z 10th May 2012

#PHPFED - Includes

When developing static sites (i.e. sites without any sort of CMS - be it Wordpress, Drupal etc.) the PHP I find the most valuable is the include.

2012-05-06T00:00:00.000Z 6th May 2012

PHP for Front-End Devs; The Story

Recently, a few friends of mine have been asking questions about PHP and want to learn the basics. I am a front-end developer for a web design agency. i.e. I mainly stick to HTML/CSS and have colleagues who do the heavy PHP stuff

2011-03-10T00:00:00.000Z 10th March 2011

Limit Items (e.g. News posts)

If you would like to limit the amount of items coming out of an array (for example the first 5 news items)

2011-02-16T00:00:00.000Z 16th February 2011

Get an 'Even' Class

This PHP statement applies class="even" to every other element when in a loop.

2011-02-14T00:00:00.000Z 14th February 2011

Giving something a 'Last' Class

If you want to apply a different class to the last item in a list generated by PHP, start off with Setting the $lastOne variable to the end of your list

2011-02-04T00:00:00.000Z 4th February 2011

Using PHP to get the dimensions of an image

The following code will get the dimensions of an image: <?php list($width, $height, $type, $attr) = getimagesize(PATH_TO_IMAGE); I found this useful when using a lightbox to ...