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If you have one or more websites written in XHTML 1.0, this program (which may be downloaded and used free of charge) lets you convert them to HTML5 without having to muck around with rewriting HTML and adding CSS....

This guide takes you through the process of converting a website from XHTML 1.0 to HTML5 using the Fiverizer software. (Fiverizer is a program that I wrote to convert my own websites, all of which were also in XHTML 1.0. It may be downloaded and used free of charge.) ...

The Feedback Form Wizard has been fixed so that it can now, once again, create the CAPTCHA versions (ReCAPTCHA and hCaptcha) of the script. Apparently, somewhere along the line, I seem to have broken it during one of my inteal updates. I'm very sorry for the inconvenience. Note: you do not have to recreate your script if you successfully generated it before. (The problem was that under certain conditions, the wizard choked and died before it could generate a script. So if you actually received a script, you are fine.)...

On Github you way from time to time need to patch release the previous version of a published release.  This took me longer than I care to admit to understand the steps involved. Hence I'm documenting them in this post. Step 1: Check out the branch corresponding to the previous version of your code. git checkout 7.3.0 Step 2: Fix the bug in the code. Let's say it's a breaking change that's been fixed in the code. Step 3: Commit the changes with a version number that indicates the patch release. Commit the fix git commit -m "Fix bug in 7.3.0" Next, create a new tag git tag 7.4.0 Step 4: Push the changes to the remote repository. git push origin 7.4.0 Step 5: Create a new release for ...

Suppose you find yourself in a situation where you need to disable or intercept a console command in Laravel. This tutorial will primarily focus on how to intercept the php artisan migrate command. We'll delve into the command method app/Console/Keel.php and explore how to prevent the migrate command from executing any actions. Inside the command method of app/Console/Keel.php In Laravel 11 use routes/console.php Intercept command You can intercept php artisan migrate and, instead, catch it and use a closure. Artisan::command('migrate', function () { // }); This would essentially stop the migrate command from doing anything. You could then print a message out: Artisan::command('migrat...

That begs the question how do you separate the time into seperate elements? Making use of explode can work. Exploding where there a : so: $parts = explode(':', '14:25:00'); This would result in an array: [ "14", "25", "00", ] To use an element you can refer to its index for example $parts[0] would contain 14 Using them by their index is fine to do but kinda messy. I prefer to give each element a name using the list function list($hours, $minutes, $seconds) = explode(':', '14:25:00'); When using list() passing an array to it will allow you to name each index of the array in the order listed. Putting this into p...

Ruing API tests you may be tempted to open PostMan or another API client, did you know, you can run HTTP requests from inside PhpStorm directly? When developing a new API, you will want to run the API endpoints. Being able to run them without leaving PhpStorm speeds up your workflow. To start a request file, you can either select a HTTP Request file when using the new file or create a new scratch file. For a scratch file select the HTTP Request type. In either case a file ending in .http for example scratch.http You can name the file anything you like and have multiple files. The difference between having .http files in your project...

I've documented my PhpStorm setup, what theme I use, plugins, and keybindings. Theme I use the New UI which is located at Appearance & Behaviour -> New UI Once tued on I use the Light Theme: I like to keep things minimal, in fact, I tu off the toolbars and status bars by toggling distraction-free mode Plugins .env file support Environment variables completion based on .env, Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml files. Go to declaration(in .env file) and usages(in code), by Ctrl(Cmd)+click or hotkey(Ctrl(Cmd)-B, etc.) .env file syntax highlighter BitBucket Pull Requests (Paid) The plugin allows you to review Atlassian Bitbucke...

Laravel Testing Cookbook will cover common use cases and will be ready in a few months time. Sign up for the waitlist to be notified when it's ready! The book will cover both PestPHP and PHPUnit. Use the book as a reference for practical examples of testing URLs, Forms, Interactions, Transactions, using third-party API's and more. Join the waitlist or pre-order at https://laraveltestingcookbook.com/ بخوانید...

If you've already used JSON lang in your views, here's a handy package to extract all lang keys to language files. The package exports all your __(‘some text’) calls to language files. https://github.com/kkomelin/laravel-translatable-string-exporter Here's a video demo. [embedded content] بخوانید...

The script generated by the Feedback Form Wizard has been updated to improve compatibility with PHP 8 (eg, 8.0, 8.1, etc). Note: if you have generated your form and script after 1 January 2023, you already have this version (ver 3.2.0). ...

CKeditor 5 out of the box does not come with upload capabilities. Uploading is supported with its plugins, some are official paid plugins that require subscriptions. There are a few free options. Base64 upload adapter This plugin allows uploads that will convert an uploaded image into base64 data. Very easy to use but will require you to save the complete base64 code with the post, this can be get long. Docs Simple image adapter An image upload tool. It allows uploading images to an application ruing on your server using the XMLHttpRequest API with a minimal editor configuration. Docs Use the online builder to add the simple image adapter then download the generated bundle unzip and p...

Let's say you have a blog and have posts ordered by their published date. Later you decide you want to pin certain posts. Pied posts should be displayed before any other posts regardless of their published date. The Solution You can accomplish this by modifying the order clause in the query. Take this order: ->orderBy('published_at', 'desc') This will order posts by their published date in descending order. Adding a second-order clause: ->orderBy('is_pied', 'desc')->orderBy('published_at', 'desc'); This time ordered by a is_pied column then order by the published_at column. This will show the posts pied first and then show the posts in their published order. The Setup ...

When upgrading from an Intel mac to an Apple Silicone I noticed docker fails to run. I'm using Laravel Sail when Sail is installed or when a sail up command is attempted I get an error:  docker: 'compose' is not a docker command The reason for this is a docker-compose is now a plugin. Docker needs docker-compose to be installed. Use brew to install docker-compose brew install docker-compose Once installed sail will function normally without any extra setup. بخوانید...

I wanted to create a table of contents from the post's heading tags automatically without having to change the headings like adding an id or anchor. I started to look at existing solutions and came across this custom function on Stackoverflow by sjaak-wish function generateIndex($html) { preg_match_all('/<h([1-6])*[^>]*>(.*?)</h[1-6]>/',$html,$matches); $index = "<ul>"; $prev = 2; foreach ($matches[0] as $i => $match){ $curr = $matches[1][$i]; $text = strip_tags($matches[2][$i]); $slug = strtolower(str_replace("--","-",preg_replace('/[^da-z]/i', '-', $text))); $anchor = '<a name="'.$slug.'">'.$...

As a website owner or content creator, you know how important it is to write great titles. Not only do titles need to be reader-friendly so that people will actually want to click on them, but they also need to be search engine friendly in order to ensure good click-through rates and rankings. So how do you strike the perfect balance? By following some best practices for writing SEO-friendly titles, of course! Keep reading to lea more. One of the most important things you can do when writing an SEO-friendly title is to include focus keywords. Focus keywords are the words or phrases that best describe your page's content and are most likely to be used by people when searching for somethi...

Microsoft's free web editor is a sophisticated WYSIWYG web editor with many features usually only found in commercial offerings (and no wonder, since it was previously something you had to buy). This tutorial series takes you through the process of designing a fully functional multi-page website with Expression Web....

This article on whether a domain name registrar is the same thing as a web host answers a question I was asked by a visitor....

This guide takes you through the steps of setting up your own blog. (Note that the article deals specifically with making a blog. If you want some other type of site, you should read How to Create a Website instead.)...

The entire BlueGriffon Tutorial has been updated for the version 3 series of BlueGriffon. Those thinking of using it to create a website can find the complete series online....