For web applications, as opposed to public facing web sites, for which we use WordPress, we usually use Laravel for our php framework. I am in love with Laravel. It just makes programming and web development fun again. It also allows me to focus on the business logic without starting from scratch for every project. […]
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There are several ways to add php code to your WordPress blog. (Note: For our purposes here, we are talking about executing php code, not displaying php code for others to see. We will be using php code to make our page more dynamic.) PHP Plugin If it’s only one or two lines of code,
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One of my clients wanted a list of their clients and the client’s information to download on demand. I added the following php code to their themes functions.php file. This will pull the information from the WordPress user record and user meta table and create the CSV file. When finished, a link is provided to
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While moving WordPress sites from one domain to another for my clients, I often run into file size limitations on phpMyAdmin. Depending on the hosting account I’m moving to, I can sometimes change that limitation with the php.ini file or import from the command line. But, sometimes, I don’t have access to those methods and
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One of my clients complained that her users were contacting her quite often because they had forgotten their username. Of course, the username is listed in the email if you click on ‘forgot password’, but many novice users don’t know that or don’t think to click there to find their username. I figured that should
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I love Coda as a text editor. I’ve been using it for years. I was hoping that they had an extension to work with Symfony. I haven’t found one. Please let me know if you know of one. I did, however, find a few things to add on. I found a Coda plugin that will
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Most of my clients are on shared hosting. I advise the start-ups I work with to start on a good, respectable (just about anything besides GoDaddy or HostGator) shared hosting and save the expense. I’ve heard some people say they can’t use Symfony on their shared hosting because Symfony requires command line access to use
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This is the last chapter of the Getting Started Tutorial. It was very helpful and informative. There’s not a lot of code to execute or test out here, but it does give a good overview of what each directory in the downloaded file structure is used for. That’s helpful. I like the changes I see
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I’m still trying to work through the Getting Started tutorial and I’m finding that it is apparently out of date. Or at least it’s showing the wrong code with the wrong version. The examples in the tutorial do not work for me. I’m using version ‘2.57 app/dev/debug’. I found the version using the following on
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My first step in learning Symfony is to go through the Getting Started Big Picture tutorial. I followed the instructions to install Symfony, but immediately ran into a problem when I tried to execute the new Symfony command. I got a ‘permission denied’ error. I had to change the permission to 755 on the /usr/local/bin/Symfony
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