Using the APIs over at trafiklab.se can yield some quite useful results. I needed to be able to display the commute stop departure times for public transport in a given place, so I wrote this WordPress plugin called Stopsign. It uses the Trafiklab.se API. The …
Please don’t write code that generates e-mail messages if you are unable to read specifications. Thank you.
I’ve been using SwiftMailer for as long as I can remember because it’s, IMHO, a great library and far more logical than PHPMailer and “others”. While maintaining a PHP5 codebase for a rather large project, I ran into an issue while using ISO-8859-15 encoded data. …
Lightbox (or “image preview”) functionality for Bootstrap 4 without additional libraries (apart from jQuery). Written by Joaquim Homrighausen <joho@webbplatsen.se> 30-May-2019 TEAMYUJO Do as you wish with this 🙂 This is the Javascript/jQuery code for the Bootstrap 4 modal. You don’t have to use jQuery to …
/* * Simple password construct validator for PHP * Joaquim Homrighausen <joho@webbplatsen.se> * May 30, 2019 * TEAMYUJO * * Do whatever you want with this snippet 🙂 * * This may not necessarily agree with the section * “Strength of Memorized Secrets” in the …
Running a PHP script from the command-line, or CLI, is quite useful at times and is often used to perform some automated task, like a CRON cleanup script, to send out reminders, etc. It’s common that these CLI scripts need some, but possibly not all, …
Having been doing battles with things like Internet Explorer 4 (yes, I’m that old), it seems to me like Microsoft have really gotten themselves into a bind when it comes to Edge. With a user-agent string like this: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 …
It finally arrived 🙂 #mattermost #geeksrus
This is, perhaps, obvious to most PHP developers. But it came somewhat as a surprise to me. Using is_numeric () for validating a WordPress version string, such as ‘4.7’, does not seem to work very well when WordPress introduces minor releases such as ‘4.7.1’. Since …
So using SimpleXML in PHP is possibly one of the worst hells of typecasting and data extraction procedures one can encounter, or close to it 🙂 But more the point, you don’t need to walk down that road alone, enter JSON. In the simplest of …