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  Resolving error "SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate in certificate chain"

In a PHP application, cURL is frequently used to make connection to remote server to request some resource. It can be used to transfer data with different protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, FTP etc.While using cURL in PHP, someone may get an error with message similar to "SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate in certificate chain".This may happen when cURL tries to make a SSL connection server and the server returns a server certificate which is self-signed and it's not trusted by the client(in the client CA store). In this case, you may need to follow below steps to resolve this issue....

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  A Guide on Creating a Magento 2 Extension

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  PHP 7 is coming soon

After a few RCs, PHP 7 will be officially released on November 12, 2015. This is a major release of PHP since PHP 5.6. @Laruence, one of the core contributors of PHP, has posted this news on Weibo(China's Twitter). This is a one month later than the expected time as recorded in PHP 7 timeline. But it's not that late.The new release will come with a few features including:Scalar type declaration, you can define variable like int nowReturn type support. Besides declare scalar type for variable, you can return typed data from function as wellNull coalesce operator(??). It is a syntactic...

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  Top 10 Best Free PHP Frameworks of 2015

Like it or not, PHP is still, the most celebrated as well as an influential platform which is widely admired for its brilliant HTML, database integration support, intuitive features, and simple in learning too. Using diverse PHP frameworks, developers can create robust, effective, well- defined and stable web application with an ease and therefore, saving towards development cost is possible. In essence, these frameworks facilitate scalability and enduring maintenance by obeying development standards, staying your code organized and permitting your application to progress and grow after s...

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  PHP to output string to client terminal

It is a common task to echo messages to the user using PHP. There are lots of ways where the message can be echoed to the client terminal(browser or console window) through PHP. These includes some well know debug methods like var_dump() and var_export() etc. In this post, we will show you some other methods shared by Laruence, one of the core members of PHP development team.1. echoFirst comes with the most common one : echo.$str = "Hello PHP\n";echo $str;2. printThen comes another common one : print.$str = "Hello PHP\n";print $str;3. php://outputAlso we can use file_put_contents() t...

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  Some tricks on PHP session

1. Session timeout problemThere is a nuance we found with session timing out although the user is still active in the session.  The problem has to do with never modifying the session variable. The GC will clear the session data files based on their last modification time.  Thus if you never modify the session, you simply read from it, then the GC will eventually clean up. To prevent this you need to ensure that your session is modified within the GC delete time.  You can accomplish this like below. if(!isset($_SESSION["last_access"]) || (time() - $_SESSION["last_access"]) >= ...

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  Handy PHP functions should be in your toolkit

When developing projects, there are always some common work should be accomplished, for example, encrption/decryption, get IP. As a PHP developer, you should have a list of the handy functions in your toolkit so that you can pick up in every project you work on. Here is a summary of some handy PHP functions.1. PHP encryption/decryptionEncryption/decryption can be used when storing user confidential information such as passwords. Below function uses base64 and MD5 to accomplish encryption/decryption.function encryptDecrypt($key, $string, $decrypt){ if($decrypt){ $decrypted = rtrim(m...

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  Useful functions to provide secure PHP application

Security is a very important aspect of programming. There are many functions or modules in any kind of real programming language providing security functionalities  In modern websites, we may often get inputs form users all around the world.There is a famous saying which says that never trust user input. So in web programming languages, we will often see functions which will guarantee the security of the data input from users. Today we will cover some of these functions in the most famous open source language  - PHP.In PHP, there are few useful functions which is very handy for preve...

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