The PHP Composer is a package management tool. It removes the hassle of maintaining PHP packages for an application manually. You can easily install all the required packages using Composer. It maintains a list of required packages in a JSON file called composer.json. This tutorial helps you to install and configure PHP composer on...
Most of the Web/API services providers are shifting their environments to TLS 1.2 or greater. So to consume their services via PHP applications, you also need to force your application to use TLS 1.2 during making a connection. This tutorial will help you, how to use TLS 1.2 with PHP cURL. You can add...
Install PHP Ioncube Loaders in Debian Linux System. Ioncube is used as the encryption and decryption utility for PHP applications by which we can keep safe our data. It also can restrict PHP application to execute unauthorized. It also assists in speeding up the pages that are served. IonCube loaders are used for decoding...
This tutorial will help you to check if a string contains any substring in PHP programming language. For example, you want to run a specific line of code only if an input string contains another substring in it. Here is a sample PHP programme, which will evaluate to true because the main string $str...
This tutorial will help you for installing Apache/HTTPD 2.4 and PHP 7 on Amazon Linux system. MySQL installation is not part of this tutorial. So if you also need MySQL server on your Amazon Linux, follow this tutorial. Step 1 – Initial Setup Log in to your Amazon Linux system via SSH and become...
This tutorial will help you to generate a random string using PHP. A random string is useful for generating passwords etc. Method 1 – Custom function This is a custom function to generate a random string of defined length. Using this you can limit the characters, symbols to be used in the random string....
PHP 7.3 is the latest stable release available for the installation. This tutorial will help you with the installation of PHP latest version on your Debian system. Now follow this tutorial to Install PHP on Debian 10, Buster. Debian 10 is still under development. So this tutorial is tested with Debian 10 daily build...
This tutorial will help you to enable PHP errors to display on the web browser. This is helpful for debugging purpose. First of all, enable display_errors parameter in your php.ini configuration file. display_errors = on Then, add the following code to your the application PHP script. For example, add this code to your index.php...
PHP 4.0 introduced __FILE__ magic constant, which provides the full path and filename of the file. To get directory path only use dirname(__FILE__). For example to include other file in same directory use: [crayon-5da9467f52617621255043/] Later the PHP version 5.3.0 and later versions introduced a new constant called __DIR__ which is the short form of...
Laravel is one of the best open source, MVC PHP framework, designed for the faster development of web applications. You can simply install and use on your development system. This article will help you to install Laravel 5 PHP Framework on Debian 9 (Stretch) system. Laravel required following software and extensions to be installed...