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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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Common Mistakes to Avoid in PHP

A list of real issues most beginners encounter when using PHP.

Sasha♦

answered Aug 2, 2023 at 18:09

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Show a success message after deletion from nova resource

<?php namespace App\Nova; use Illuminate\Http\Request; use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB; use Laravel\Nova\Actions\Action; use Laravel\Nova\Fields\ID; use Laravel\Nova\Http\Requests\NovaRequest; ...

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How to add routes in laravel 12

Fresh new installation of Laravel 12 composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel api cd api composer update sudo chmod -R 775 storage sudo chown -R www-data:www-data storage sudo chmod -R ...

Abdulla Nilam

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Impact of PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS with lighttpd 1.4.80 and php-cgi

I’m running lighttpd 1.4.80 with PHP via FastCGI (php-cgi, not php-fpm). The page Optimizing FastCGI performance says: there is a potential race condition during the PHP cleanup code in which PHP can ...

noch

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Why does Apple iCloud CalDAV always return 400/405 on PUT (creating events)? Is iCloud CalDAV write-protected?

I’m trying to create events on an iCloud Calendar using CalDAV. READ operations work: PROPFIND → OK REPORT (get events) → OK Authentication with app-specific password → OK But every PUT request (...

Ayoub Dakiri

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VS code treats the address C://php.exe as h:/web/c:/php.exe

I installed the PHP Server extension for VS Code and added two lines to settings.json: "php.validate.executablePath": "С://php-server//php.exe", "phpserver.phpPath": &...

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Problem with module during dolibarr update

I tried to update dolibarr from 16.0.3 up to the current version 20.0.2. So far it succeeded, but I do have an error code when I want to use a custom module for time-tracking. To me it seems that ...

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answered 23 hours ago

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You have upgraded to the wrong version. The 20.0.2 release is an update for the 20.0 branch. But you are coming from the 16.0.3 version, so the 16.0 branch. Please follow the upgrade instructions for ...

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Symfony/Doctrine: PostgreSQL Migration Issue – Undefined column error only in HTTP Kernel (CLI works)

Symfony/Doctrine: PostgreSQL Migration Issue – Undefined column error only in HTTP Kernel (CLI works) I'm working on a Symfony 7.3 project running on PHP 8.2. I recently migrated the database from ...

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What you call out as a // Temporary Fix #[ORM\Table(name: '`user`')] actually is making use of the correct form to tell the Object Relational Mapper (ORM) what the actual name is. As user is a ...

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How does a recursive function work in PHP?

Edit: How does this recursive call play out, why is i = 1, even though the function fires 3 times ? Doesn't the function reach the if statement -> fires -> (this repeats 3 times) then reaches ...

Carl Bidwell

modified 22 hours ago

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hasn't $i been incremented 3 times by that point ...yes, but it gets incremented within the scope of each individual call to the function - and then thrown away, because (aside from the echo rec($obj)...

ADyson

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Symfony monolog add additional info to all logs

I need to add trackability information for all logs. E.g. logged in user and route parameters (entity ID) Right now I have this code: use Monolog\Processor\ProcessorInterface; class RequestProcessor ...

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Problem is that some logs (e.g. deprecations) are logged before Kernel::request event. That means there is no "current request" in strack. Sure, but as that will ever be you need something ...

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Splitting SQL output evenly into 3 HTML columns

I am trying to take the output of a SQL query and split it evenly into 3 HTML columns such as flexbox divs. Obviously the output total won't always be evenly divisible by 3 and the first 2 totals ...

Chris Maurer

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Some sample data and expected result would go a long way to making your question clearer. And yeah this would have been better posted on the main troubleshooting posts rather than advice, I think. ...

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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']; ...

Blaztix

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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')?

Zoe - Save the data dump

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modified Jun 6, 2024 at 19:35

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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 ...

Abdul Alim Shakir

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modified Aug 12, 2024 at 8:58

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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?

Andresch Serj

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modified Feb 25 at 8:48

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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 ...

Chintan Thummar

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answered Mar 25 at 12:00

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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 1- 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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