With the demise of Magento 1.x on the horizon – Adobe announced in September 2018 support for version Magento 1 will cease in 2020 new life has been breathed into the product…Continue reading
How to Deploy OpenFaaS Serverless PHP Functions
If you follow Alex Ellis on Twitter one acronym that you will have been seeing a lot in your Twitter feed lately is FaaS. Alex is a pretty smart chappy…Continue reading
Amazon Alexa PHP Prompt and Response Example (Hello World Part 2)
NOTE – this blog entry was written for the old version of the Alexa Skills Kit Developer Console – whilst the PHP server code still works some info and screen…Continue reading
Running Docker Apps in Docker Containers – docker in docker permissions
If you are looking at containerising PHP applications you might want to run another containerised application from within your container – run a docker application or command in a docker…Continue reading
Docker PHP Sendmail Replacement – SMTP
If you are relatively new to docker and are migrating php applications to containers you may notice that a lot of docker images recommend using sSMTP as a sendmail replacement…Continue reading
Amazon Alexa PHP Hello World Example
NOTE – this blog entry was written for the old version of the Alexa Skills Kit Developer Console – whilst the PHP server code still works some info and screen…Continue reading
Cannot Send PHP Mail after Ubuntu Upgrade
I recently made a list of problems experienced after upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS, an additional problem that finally came to light about a week later was…Continue reading
PHP Application & Ajax Request Security / Authentication
I have been using Ajax a lot recently in my PHP applications, especially in my Magento interfaces to retrieve order and customer information. Working with Magento in PHP you need…Continue reading
Cross Browser Ajax / PHP File Uploader
A simple PHP ajax file uploader using XHR (HTML5) and Flash (Uploadify). Can be used as a plugin to provide cross browser file upload functionality. Can also email…Continue reading
Efficient Page View Counter using PHP and Memcache
Are you looking for the most efficient way to increment a counter to use on a web page e.g. to display specific page views or amount of times an object…Continue reading