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PHP Will Not Die

PHP · January 23, 2023

PHP, the programming language that has been declared dead more times than a cat has lives, is still very much alive and kicking. Despite …

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Stopping PHP From Stripping out Hyperlinks From a NITF XML Response While Parsing the XML

PHP · May 27, 2022

This is another of those particular posts that might help one or two people out. If I can save you some time working with the News Industry …

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My Experience Writing a Long-Running PHP Script to Parse News Content From the Associated Press News API

PHP · October 7, 2021

Filed under: super-specific use case with hints of generality for those wanting to write long-running PHP scripts. For a little while …

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How to Parse Dates With Different Timezones in PHP (and convert them)

PHP · October 1, 2021

Recently I was tasked with processing some content from an API, the published dates and times were coming through with timezone values in …

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WordPress download_url Function That Supports Request Headers

PHP, Wordpress · February 23, 2021

I have been working on a WordPress site that parses remote news API's and requires not only parsing the news format JSON but getting any …

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[FIX] ‘Allowed memory size exhausted’ Composer PHP On Mac OSX

PHP · September 26, 2014

Recently I encountered a dreaded issue whilst trying to install Laravel on my Mac OSX machine. The message I was getting was: Allowed …

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Should You Commit “composer.lock” Into Your Git Repository?

PHP · September 15, 2014

This is an interesting question I have been asked about a few times now and it appears many developers are confused what the answer is. Long …

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How To Create A User Following/Follower System Like Twitter In Laravel 4

Laravel, PHP · September 10, 2014

Laravel is undoubtedly one of the best things to happen to PHP and you've probably guessed based on my post history, I really like it and …

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