PHP  PHP functions  quick tips  web development 

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

Laravel  Laravel 5.2  Laravel 5.5  web development 

Notes from a Laravel 5.2 to 5.5 upgrade.

PHP  PDO  sqlite  web development 

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

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.

Projects  Wolfcms  Bootstrap  web development  Wolfcms Themes 

A Bootstrap theme for Wolf CMS.

PHP  Projects  Wolfcms-disqus  Disqus  Wolfcms  web development 

A Wolf CMS plugin providing Disqus comment integration.

gulp.js  gulp-purifycss  purifycss  Laravel  CSS  web development  Laravel Elixir 

Identify and remove unused CSS with gulp-purifycss. Helpful for legacy projects with lots of CSS cruft.

Laravel  Laravel packages  Composer  Laravel Tinker  web development 

How to remove the Laravel Tinker package (installed by default)

PHP  PHP strings  PHP special characters  PHP escape sequences  web development 

A (probably) non-exhaustive list of PHP special characters / escape sequences in double quoted strings.

Docker  Dockerfile  PHP  web development 

A collection of a few real life PHP project Dockerfile examples