How to swop between different PHP versions on an Apple Mac
Follow the procedure in blue: ➜ project git:(master) php -v
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How to install imagick with WHM
Background At times WHM hosted WordPress sites may complain when checking security. “Some modules are not installed” The list typically looks like this: exif fileinfo
On a Virtualmin server, which grep command can I use to quickly determine which sites have out of memory issues?
Background We recently encountered a heavily used Virtualmin server with many powerful Elementor websites. What turns out happening is quite a few of the sites
PHP execution modes – FPM versus FCGId versus CGI wrapper
This article describes the PHP execution modes present in a Virtualmin installation. We’ve extracted some of the information from the help bubble provided by Virtualmin
How to upgrade from php 7.3 to 7.4 or 8.0 on an Ubuntu 18.04 server
When facing the decision to upgrade an Ubuntu 18.04 server, you basically have two choices: Lower Risk Scenario 1. Upgrade just PHP. The hero in
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
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
How to keep track of file downloads on a web server using PHP
Background Keeping track of file downloads is quite tricky. On the one hand, you have tools such as Google Analytics that gives you everything and
Unable to load dynamic library ‘gd’ on Virtualmin server even though php-gd is installed
You might get the following error after having done `yum install php72-php-gd` on a Virtualmin server because of a missing library: PHP Warning: PHP Startup: