1. How to Avoid Security Issues using PHP URL Redirect Follow Class to Discover the Final URL of a Short URL
Updated on: 2022-10-28
Posted on: 2022-10-28
Blog: URL Tracker Class package blog
Package: URL Tracker Class
Short URLs help pass URLs of pages to other people in a way that may be easier to remember or type.
One challenge of short URLs is that they hide the actual destination URLs. If the pages of destination URLs have security issues, the users that get short URLs may not be aware of that until they access the short URL destination pages.
This package finds and returns the destination URLs of a given short URL. It may also return any intermediary URLs that browsers may need to access until they reach the final destination URL.
This way, developers may use security tools for auditing the safety of the final destination of the short URL, as well as all intermediary URLs.
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One challenge of short URLs is that they hide the actual destination URLs. If the pages of destination URLs have security issues, the users that get short URLs may not be aware of that until they access the short URL destination pages.
This package finds and returns the destination URLs of a given short URL. It may also return any intermediary URLs that browsers may need to access until they reach the final destination URL.
This way, developers may use security tools for auditing the safety of the final destination of the short URL, as well as all intermediary URLs.
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Updated on: 2022-10-28
Posted on: 2022-10-27
Blog: Event Story Manager Plugin package blog
Package: Event Story Manager Plugin
WordPress is a well-known publishing platform that can work for other purposes besides publishing blog posts using plugins that extend the possibilities of the original WordPress software.
This package implements a plugin that can transform a WordPress site into a regional event publication site.
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This package implements a plugin that can transform a WordPress site into a regional event publication site.
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Updated on: 2022-10-26
Posted on: 2022-10-26
Blog: Laravel Shopping Basket package blog
Package: Laravel Shopping Basket
Many Web sites have a shopping section on which they can sell products to their users.
The developers of those some of those sites use the Laravel framework to implement the area with less effort than if they develop the sites using PHP without any framework, content management system, or library dedicated to creating shopping sites.
This package can help quickly add a shopping section to a site that already uses the Laravel framework, thus reducing the effort to add this feature.
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The developers of those some of those sites use the Laravel framework to implement the area with less effort than if they develop the sites using PHP without any framework, content management system, or library dedicated to creating shopping sites.
This package can help quickly add a shopping section to a site that already uses the Laravel framework, thus reducing the effort to add this feature.
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Updated on: 2022-10-25
Posted on: 2022-10-25
When you want to optimize the performance of a MySQL-based application, you should try to optimize first the slowest queries that affect the application's performance.
The MySQL slow query log file provides a list of slow queries as they happen. So you need to monitor that file to determine the most critical slow SQL queries you need to optimize first.
Read this article, watch a 2-minute video, or listen to part 3 of episode 93 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to use a free tool to monitor the MySQL slow query log and find the slowest SQL queries.
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The MySQL slow query log file provides a list of slow queries as they happen. So you need to monitor that file to determine the most critical slow SQL queries you need to optimize first.
Read this article, watch a 2-minute video, or listen to part 3 of episode 93 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to use a free tool to monitor the MySQL slow query log and find the slowest SQL queries.
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Updated on: 2022-10-24
Posted on: 2022-10-24
The PHP elePHPants are lovely mascots that many PHP developers love for being a symbol of their favorite language. The PHP Classes site sells plush toy versions of the PHP elePHPant.
Today we are announcing a significant improvement to the PHP ElePHPant mascot toys we are making available to make these plush toys even nicer.
From now on, you can purchase a personalized version of the PHP ElePHPant. This fact means that the plush toy may show a logo of your choice on the opposite side of the belly where it shows the PHP logo. Your logo can be an image with your name, your company name, or some other type of image that you can share with us.
Read this article to learn more about these new personalized elePHPants and how you can buy them so you can get them for yourself or for the people that you love the most in your life, hopefully in time for Christmas.
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Today we are announcing a significant improvement to the PHP ElePHPant mascot toys we are making available to make these plush toys even nicer.
From now on, you can purchase a personalized version of the PHP ElePHPant. This fact means that the plush toy may show a logo of your choice on the opposite side of the belly where it shows the PHP logo. Your logo can be an image with your name, your company name, or some other type of image that you can share with us.
Read this article to learn more about these new personalized elePHPants and how you can buy them so you can get them for yourself or for the people that you love the most in your life, hopefully in time for Christmas.
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Updated on: 2022-10-21
Posted on: 2022-10-21
Blog: PHP User Guide package blog
Package: PHP User Guide
Documentation is essential for projects of any kind to help users learn how to use those projects when they do not know how to use them or have doubts.
A good practice for providing project documentation is to have a user guide that presents all the aspects that may be useful for the project users.
This package provides a solution to help users of any project to generate documentation from templates.
It also allows the definition of navigation menus that configure the package to provide the structure to render the different parts of the project user guide.
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A good practice for providing project documentation is to have a user guide that presents all the aspects that may be useful for the project users.
This package provides a solution to help users of any project to generate documentation from templates.
It also allows the definition of navigation menus that configure the package to provide the structure to render the different parts of the project user guide.
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Updated on: 2022-10-19
Posted on: 2022-10-19
When you want to optimize a MySQL database application in production, you should figure out the slowest queries in that environment.
Enabling the MySQL slow query log can help you figure out the slowest SQL queries to optimize first. You can do that in a production environment, but you need to take extra care with how you enable the slow query log to avoid causing harm to the application.
Read this article, watch a 2-minute video, or listen to part 2 of episode 93 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to enable the MySQL slow query log in a production environment in a safe way.
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Enabling the MySQL slow query log can help you figure out the slowest SQL queries to optimize first. You can do that in a production environment, but you need to take extra care with how you enable the slow query log to avoid causing harm to the application.
Read this article, watch a 2-minute video, or listen to part 2 of episode 93 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to enable the MySQL slow query log in a production environment in a safe way.
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Updated on: 2022-10-18
Posted on: 2022-10-18
Blog: Laravel Cookie 18 package blog
Package: Laravel Cookie 18
Many sites present content for adults. Those sites need to confirm if the users have 18 years of age or more.
This package provides a solution to present a confirmation dialog to request that the user confirm if they are adults.
When the users confirm their age, the site uses encrypted cookies to store the user response, so it no longer shows the adult confirmation dialog.
This way, this package helps adult site content owners comply with countries' laws that require that the sites restrict access to content to adult users.
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This package provides a solution to present a confirmation dialog to request that the user confirm if they are adults.
When the users confirm their age, the site uses encrypted cookies to store the user response, so it no longer shows the adult confirmation dialog.
This way, this package helps adult site content owners comply with countries' laws that require that the sites restrict access to content to adult users.
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Updated on: 2022-10-17
Posted on: 2022-10-17
Blog: Minimalist PHP Sales Site package blog
Package: Minimalist PHP Sales Site
Many sites implement an e-commerce section where the site owners can sell a set of products to their customers.
Implementing a complete e-commerce system can be a very complex task that requires to setup a database on which the site lists the available products.
This package provides a more straightforward solution: site owners can implement a sales system using simple configuration files.
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Implementing a complete e-commerce system can be a very complex task that requires to setup a database on which the site lists the available products.
This package provides a more straightforward solution: site owners can implement a sales system using simple configuration files.
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Updated on: 2022-10-14
Posted on: 2022-10-14
Blog: Yii2 CodeStat package blog
Package: Yii2 CodeStat
You can measure the quality of a developer's code in several ways. For instance, complex code may be hard to maintain.
If you write complex code, it would be good if you could improve the way you write your code to make it less complicated.
Measuring the complexity and other aspects of the quality of your code can be helpful for you to have an idea of how good is the code you write and what parts you need to improve.
This package combines several other packages that measure different aspects of your code and generate a report that you can analyze and discover opportunities to make your code better.
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If you write complex code, it would be good if you could improve the way you write your code to make it less complicated.
Measuring the complexity and other aspects of the quality of your code can be helpful for you to have an idea of how good is the code you write and what parts you need to improve.
This package combines several other packages that measure different aspects of your code and generate a report that you can analyze and discover opportunities to make your code better.
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