NCweb 0.0.5, your Nextcloud Web Server
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 …
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pdftk and php-pdftk on Ubuntu 18.04 without using snap
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 …
NCweb, serve static website content from Nextcloud
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 …
Troubleshooting WordPress re-directs (301)
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 …
URL re-writing with nginx, PHP, and WordPress
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 …
SwiftMailer 5, PHP5, and ISO-8859-15
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 …
Simple password validator for PHP
/* * Simple password construct validator for PHP * Joaquim Homrighausen <joho@webbplatsen.se> * May 30, 2019 * TEAMYUJO * * Do whatever you want with this snippet 🙂 * * …
Setting PHP.INI path (or file) for PHP CLI shell scripts
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 …
PHP is_numeric () fails WordPress version string check
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 …
Making SimpleXML truly simple using JSON in PHP
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, …