PHP  PHP functions  quick tips  web development 

A better way to perform intermediate to complex string replace routines in PHP.

PHP  Composer 

How to create a new PHP project from scratch using composer.

Ubuntu 16.04  PHP  PHP 7.0  PHP 7.1 

How to upgrade from PHP 7.0 to PHP 7.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial)

PHP  PHP 7.1  type safety 

A quick look at how to declare a nullable return type in PHP 7.1 and above.

PHP  PDO  sqlite  web development 

Short reminder how to connect to a sqlite database with PHP's PDO database library

PHP  snippets  dates  PHP DateTime 

Working with dates in yyyy-mm-dd format in PHP with the DateTime class. How to evaluate if an input is a valid date in yyyy-mm-dd input and formatting the DateTime object as a string.

PHP  CLI  PHP Scripting  Boilerplate 

Options for creating quick PHP command line scripts

PHP  Regular Expressions  Reference 

Quick reference for using regular expressions in PHP.

linux  PHP  LAMP 

Short article about a PHP error with gd library including steps to resolution.

PHP  PHP Snippets 

A short snippet of PHP to remove duplicate values from a comma delimited string.

PHP  web development  Mac  WordPress  Apache  MariaDB  WP-CLI 

This post covers the installation and configuration of a local development environment for WordPress (and other projects) on Mac OSX 10.11 using Apache 2.4, PHP, MariaDB, and the WP CLI command line utility

PHP  LAMP  web development  Apache  MariaDB  Ubuntu 

Checklist of steps to configure a LAMP web server stack on Ubuntu 16.04 using Apache 2.4, MariaDB, and PHP 7 on a Digital Ocean VPS.

PHP  Projects  Wolfcms-disqus  Disqus  Wolfcms  web development 

A Wolf CMS plugin providing Disqus comment integration.

Debian 10  Apache 2.4  Apache  system administration  linux  PHP  PHP-FPM 

How to switch from Apache2 mpm_prefork to mpm_event module and setup php-fpm in Debian 10.

PHP 

How to get the URL of the current page in PHP via the `$_SERVER` superglobal