Tagged with "PHP"

I needed to set up instances running PHP 8 a few times to test that my WordPress plugins and composer packages work on PHP 8. I also have…

This is a look at a composer package that returns an SVG graph from an array of data: shortdark/socket composer package. There may be better…

When I learn a new language, or write something in a language I don't use very often, there are a few ways to go about it. I guess, often we…

I am a web developer living in Sheffield, UK who has mainly been developing websites in PHP. My Career Timeline 1999 Taught myself HTML and…

I look up everything before I use it. An IDE such as PHP Storm has the PHP docs built in so can tell you a lot of the information you need…

I was having trouble finding a WordPress plugin that would give me an Accordion on a particular WordPress website. Either jQuery was not in…

In this post, we looked at some ways to tighten up security and increase the speed of websites in modern times. How to Implement Security…

This is a simple step-by-step guide to making a PHP composer package that can be listed publicly on packagist.org for anyone in the world to…

Trying to connect to use AWS S3 for the first time can be confusing. Here is a quick guide to roughly what has to happen. Basic Steps to Set…

I had a PHP website that was the last man standing on some shared hosting that was slow that didn't have SSH access. I decided that since I…

AWS Lightsail is the closest thing AWS has to shared hosting. It is their quick, easy and inexpensive off-the-shelf hosting that has SSH…

Previously, I looked at setting up Debian 8 with PHP 7.0. But now, Debian 9 is the current stable version and Debian 8 is only due to…

I was unable to find a single tutorial that would show exactly how to install Laravel on Debian, possibly because I was using PHP 7.0 on…

Here is a guide to Setting up a Linux Webserver with SSH. This is for Debian 8 (Jessie) although other versions of Debian will be similar…

There are 1,000s of WordPress Plugins and each one is individual, but for anyone wanting to make a plugin for themselves here are a few…

Post Volume Stats Wordpress plugin, "Post Volume Stats", is free to download here. It is a plugin to show the user's posting patterns - from…

This is currently a very simple plugin that solves the target="_blank" vulnerability, which is a security risk in that it allows phishing to…

You can see my public git repos at my GitHub profile. Some of My Test Websites Here are some websites I've set up at various points as part…