PHP-FPM uses a daemon to manage the multiple PHP versions on a single server. Together we can use Apache and PHP-FPM to host multiple PHP web sites, each using a different versions of PHP at the same time. This is useful because different applications may require different versions of PHP. HP-FPM…
While I fully understand the security implications of running these legacy and unsupported versions of PHP and MySQL. I had an application that had these dependancies, but I wanted to move to a supported LTS version of Ubuntu. Once you have Ubuntu 18.04 installed with Apache 2, you can use…
If you would like to write out your webpage to a file you can use the ob_start command. This function will turn output buffering on. While output buffering is active no output is sent from the script (other than headers), instead the output is stored in an internal buffer. The contents…
I have the need on one of my sites to send emails after generating results from a questionnaire. I came across phpmailer and really liked it, it has some great functionality and is pretty easy to setup. Here is a code example:
I have recently found the need to generate a PDF from the content of a dynamic HTML page. I found a really useful product that allowed me to change the PDF layout via CSS, which allowed me to have a coloured back ground on my page, but have a white…
I recently had the need to generate a GUID as part of a PHP based application. To do this I used the following code: Reference: http://guid.us/GUID/PHP