Today I Learned - Rocky Kev

Tagged “php”

  1. TIL how NGINX knows to look for index.html vs index.php servers nginx php

    What happens when visitor hits /foo/bar URL?

  2. TIL php-fpm php webdev servers

    PHP runs as a separated service when using PHP-FPM. By using this PHP version as language interpreter, requests are processed through a TCP/IP socket; so that the Nginx web server only handles the HTTP requests and PHP-FPM interprets the PHP code. The fact of having two separate services is key for increasing efficiency.

  3. TIL the difference between single-threaded & multi-threaded architecture php javascript performance

    For web dev, we don't need it. We're not bottle-necked by the processing power. We're instead bottlenecked by the ability to read files/databases. We can simulate multi-threading (and improve our app's performance) using async/await.

  4. TIL HTTP "No-cache" headers cache server php apache

    Using PHP and apache .htaccess file to force reload

  5. TIL Never deserializing untrusted data php security vulnerability json

    This happened the most in PHP, because for some reason, PHP developers love to serialize/deserialize objects instead of using JSON, but I’d say almost every case we saw where a server was deserializing a client object and parsing it led to a horrible exploit.

  6. TIL how PHP treats the loose comparison (==) sign php security

  7. TIL of a PHP performance fix for for-loops php performance loops

  8. TIL match expression (like switch) php clean-code

    Use the match($var) method to filter the results to exactly what you want.

  9. TIL Optional Chaining in PHP8 php js

    Optional Chaining in PHP looks very similar to optional chaining in JS

  10. TIL the difference of Closures in Javascript vs PHP php javascript closure

    I never knew PHP and Javascript closures were different.

  11. TIL combining PHP arrays php arrays

    array_merge, array_replace, and the (+) union operator

  12. TIL an easy way to populate an data array php javascript

    Bonus - I just had to do this in PHP as well, so you get TWO languages for the price of one TIL!

  13. TIL that PHP has an abandoned Gender Library php lolz

    This extension, in short, tries to guess the gender of first names.

  14. TIL output buffering in PHP php

    If you are outputting a lot of content in php, use ob_start()

  15. TIL how amazing Devilbox is php wordpress

  16. TIL How to Summon WordPress in random PHP files wordpress php

    How to use WordPress Helper functions outside of WordPress

  17. TIL about how to quickly add a WP Theme customizer Option wordpress php

    You can do a lot of theme customization that auto-loads the page with every setting change. It's a really nice feature.

  18. TIL VScode bracket formatting for PHP php vscode

    Intelephense -> Format: Braces: k&r

  19. TIL how to get WordPress functions working in VSCode vscode php

    Right out of the box, PHP Intelephense Extension for VSCode will give errors for WordPress code. How to fix.

  20. TIL Default Params in PHP php

    Default Params

  21. TIL About various ways to declare WP Options/Settings Page wordpress php

    After a lot of research, I found two approaches for writing WP option pages with code.

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