 | Laravel PHP web framework requires certain libraries to function properly. One of these libraries is the mcrypt and the php-mcrypt (bridge between mcrypt and php). However, there is a good chance that you will run into issues while running Laravel if these libraries and the extensions are not properly installed. When I got started with… |
 | Installing php-mcrypt should be a cakewalk on Mac OS X with brew using the command “brew install php54-mcrypt” but at times things do not work out this easily and that is when you have to end up building and installing php54-mcrypt manually. It is an easy process and here is how you can do it…. |
 | So its that time of the New Year when you have to change the dates in the footer next to the copyright symbol on your website. It can be cumbersome task if you have many pages in your website and there is no common footer file for these pages – which means you will have… |
 | User inputted data is something that should always be necessarily validated at the server side before storing it in the database. In this article we will tell you how to validate a date and check it on the server side using PHP. This date validation technique can be used very well in PHP based frameworks… |
 | CakePHP is a fantastic framework that lets you build any website from grounds up and that too very quickly. Although CakePHP provides all the built-in functions required for various works on a website but at times it happens that you need to access some CakePHP elements from an external script. For instance, in this article… |
 | Sometimes installing PHP via the regular method does not help you install PHP properly and even after following the standard methods of installing all you get when trying to enable the PHP5 or the PHP module is this error: ERROR: Module php5 does not exist! Scratched your head enough already? Well here is a simple… |
 | When you transfer your files from one server to another it might be quite possible that you also copy the permissions and ownership of the files from the originating server to the destination server. In this case you can possibly run into huge permission issues which can lead your website to not display properly if… |
 | In one of our recent website app projects, we planned to use MongoDB as our main database. Since we are hardcore PHP guys, we do not even think of developing in some other language although we love Python a lot! In this article we will tell you in a step by step manner, how to… |
 | Well, here is some really good news for the PHP Development community. Till now (as of PHP 5.3) all developers had to set up a web-server environment such as Apache in order to test all their PHP codes. Not only this, apart from installing the server environment developers also have to configure the necessary modules… |
