Matching a space in regex

If you’re looking for a space, that would be ” ” (one space). If you’re looking for one or more, it’s ” *” (that’s two spaces and an asterisk) or ” +” (one space and a plus). If you’re looking for common spacing, use “[ X]” or “[ X][ X]*” or “[ X]+” where X … Read more

PHP + MySQL transactions examples

The idea I generally use when working with transactions looks like this (semi-pseudo-code): try { // First of all, let’s begin a transaction $db->beginTransaction(); // A set of queries; if one fails, an exception should be thrown $db->query(‘first query’); $db->query(‘second query’); $db->query(‘third query’); // If we arrive here, it means that no exception was thrown … Read more

PHP “php://input” vs $_POST

The reason is that php://input returns all the raw data after the HTTP-headers of the request, regardless of the content type. The PHP superglobal $_POST, only is supposed to wrap data that is either application/x-www-form-urlencoded (standard content type for simple form-posts) or multipart/form-data (mostly used for file uploads) This is because these are the only … Read more

Print PHP Call Stack

More readable than debug_backtrace(): $e = new \Exception; var_dump($e->getTraceAsString()); #2 /usr/share/php/PHPUnit/Framework/TestCase.php(626): SeriesHelperTest->setUp() #3 /usr/share/php/PHPUnit/Framework/TestResult.php(666): PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase->runBare() #4 /usr/share/php/PHPUnit/Framework/TestCase.php(576): PHPUnit_Framework_TestResult->run(Object(SeriesHelperTest)) #5 /usr/share/php/PHPUnit/Framework/TestSuite.php(757): PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase->run(Object(PHPUnit_Framework_TestResult)) #6 /usr/share/php/PHPUnit/Framework/TestSuite.php(733): PHPUnit_Framework_TestSuite->runTest(Object(SeriesHelperTest), Object(PHPUnit_Framework_TestResult)) #7 /usr/share/php/PHPUnit/TextUI/TestRunner.php(305): PHPUnit_Framework_TestSuite->run(Object(PHPUnit_Framework_TestResult), false, Array, Array, false) #8 /usr/share/php/PHPUnit/TextUI/Command.php(188): PHPUnit_TextUI_TestRunner->doRun(Object(PHPUnit_Framework_TestSuite), Array) #9 /usr/share/php/PHPUnit/TextUI/Command.php(129): PHPUnit_TextUI_Command->run(Array, true) #10 /usr/bin/phpunit(53): PHPUnit_TextUI_Command::main() #11 {main}”

How do I create a simple ‘Hello World’ module in Magento?

First and foremost, I highly recommend you buy the PDF/E-Book from PHP Architect. It’s US$20, but is the only straightforward “Here’s how Magento works” resource I’ve been able to find. I’ve also started writing Magento tutorials at my own website. Second, if you have a choice, and aren’t an experienced programmer or don’t have access … Read more

cURL error 60: SSL certificate: unable to get local issuer certificate

How to solve this problem: download and extract cacert.pem following the instructions at https://curl.se/docs/caextract.html save it on your filesystem somewhere (for example, XAMPP users might use C:\xampp\php\extras\ssl\cacert.pem) in your php.ini, put this file location in the [curl] section (putting it in the [openssl] section is also a good idea): [curl] curl.cainfo = “C:\xampp\php\extras\ssl\cacert.pem” [openssl] openssl.cafile … Read more