PHP & Web Development

March 2021 PHP cURL Requests with JSON or XML The following post will explain how to use PHP/cURL to retrieve data in JSON or XML and process it for using in your PHP application... February 2021 Global Payments: Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) and 3D Secure 2 The roll out of 3D Secure 2 has been a long drawn-out process not helped by the COVID–19 pandemic. Part of the update has included... March 2018 The latest update to PHP7 is here… 7.2.0 This month PHP released the latest update PHP7.2.0. While PHP 7.2 is an improvement, it is not groundbreaking as the jump from PHP5.6 to PHP7.0.... June 2017 PHP: glob glob($string); Return an array of pathnames matching a specific pattern. // Find all CSV files in the /home/var/imports/ directory glob("/home/var/imports/hello-*.csv"); /home/var/imports/hello-world.csv – Returned /home/var/imports/hell-world.csv –... May 2017 PHP: header header($string); Used to send a raw HTTP header, often used for page redirects. Must be called before any other output is sent. // Redirect the... May 2017 PHP: str_replace str_replace($search,$replace,$subject) All instances of $search are replaced with $replace in $subject. // Will print to screen: "Why is the sky blue?". echo str_replace("red","blue","Why is the... October 2016 How to use PHP to submit a cURL request with HTTP Post data Straight forward script to POST an array of fields to a given URL. // First, set the URL you want to POST the data to... June 2015 Block access based on Client IP using PHP This is a useful script to add at the start of any PHP file which you want hidden from a specific IP address or addresses....