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One truly annoying thing with WordPress is that it doesn’t use the mbstring extensions at its core. I fully realize how big of a task a re-write is in this regard, but considering there are utility functions for just about everything you want to do as a WordPress plugin and/or …
NCweb 0.0.5 has been released, yay 🙂 You can grab a copy here if you’re curious about the changes, if not, carry on. If you want to read more about NCweb, check out the GitHub repository The initial announcement can be found here Spoiler alert: This is possibly a completely …
During a product launch I recently came across an “interesting” issue involving pdftk (and php-pdftk). Some of the developers had made assumptions (ever heard that one before?) about the operating environment and how things were/are configured. These assumptions were based on a development environment that in no way reflected the …
NCweb is a reasonably small (ish) PHP “application” that will allow you to expose a given folder of a Nextcloud instance and serve documents from it as if it would have been a regular website. The folder does not have to be shared in Nextcloud. You can serve .html (HTML) …
While trying to configure some internal URL re-writing in nginx for a WordPress site, I ran across an annoying issue: Regardless of my re-writing efforts, WordPress would issue a re-direct (301) header (?!) This wouldn’t have been such a big deal if I didn’t want the URL to stay the …
There are many posts about nginx, re-directs, PHP, and WordPress. There are somewhat fewer posts that talk about (internal) re-writes, where the request by the web browser is mangled to be served by another resource than the one requested. For example, I may want a request for https://mysite.foo/cool/penguin to actually …
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. Most people won’t care about …
/* * 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 document * from NIST: * …
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, settings that are similar to …
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 I cannot be bothered to …