Software Development

How to swop between different PHP versions on an Apple Mac

Follow the procedure in blue: ➜ project git:(master) php -v

How to rename a Packagist PHP composer package

This is not possible and nicely explain here below: “As of now, you cannot update a package name, I believe for security reasons (if renaming

Github Boilerplate for New Repositories

Create a new repository on the command line echo “# github-new-repo-template” >> README.md git init git add README.md git commit -m “first commit” git branch

How to install a specific version of a composer package

This is the format: composer require vendor/package:version Reference https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40914114/how-to-install-a-specific-version-of-package-using-composer

Mastering PhpStorm

Recently I decided to switch my IDE from the amazing Visual Studio code back to PhpStorm which was my preferred IDE of choice for years.

Visual Studio Code Tips and Tricks

Here are some of the most used key combinations and plugins we like for Visual Studio Code Collapse Outline <Ctrl> + <LeftArrow> will collapse the entire list

How to turn off SSL certificate validation when using PHP’s file_get_contents

Background At times you might want to avoid certificate checking when developing a PHP application and using file_get_contents. If file_get_contents can’t work the the certificate

How to turn off SSL certificate validation when using WordPress’s WP_Http API call

Background At times you might want to avoid certificate checking when developing a WordPress application. This could especially be true when you are developing on

The ultimate PHP debug logger

PHP debugging can involve outputting to a log file. Although modern frameworks like Laravel has this baked in, sometimes you just want something short and

How to work out what was the date of the last Sunday using PHP

Description Here is a code snippet to work out the date of the last Sunday: echo date(‘Y-m-d’,strtotime(‘last sunday’)); Reference https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15196587/get-last-sunday-date-in-php/15196691