Hi all I have gone through the entire book top to bottom and updated it in a number of places. The book is now in it’s 6th edition. My recommendations for an editor have been updated; I now recommend Microsoft Visual Studio Code. I updated dozens of screen shots, including all the screen shots for […]
docker-compose.yaml version: ‘3’ services: mySQL: image: mysql:5.7 environment: – MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=verysecret – lower_case_table_names=1 joyphp: build: ./joyphp volumes: – ./joyphp/src:/var/www/html ports: – 80:80 environment: XDEBUG_CONFIG: remote_host=host.docker.internal remote_port=9000 remote_enable=1 links: – mySQL depends_on: – mySQL phpmyadmin: image: phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin container_name: phpmyadmin environment: – MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=yourpassword – PMA_HOST=mySQL ports: – 8080:80
Updated website It was long overdue! This website has been totally revamped and I have removed the requirement to join my mailing list to get the source code. I do plan to update the book with a 6th edition and expanded content but at the moment I’m just picking away at that and don’t have […]
Hi everyone, As you might have noticed, this site got hacked. Somebody guessed my admin password (which stupidly was the title of the book) and filled it with malware. My ISP noticed and took the site down, and Google dropped it from search results. A couple of important lessons here. First, make your passwords hard […]
I missed this last week, but PHP is now 20. Happy Birthday! Tons of articles out there in celebration, such as http://www.infoworld.com/article/2933858/php/php-at-20-from-pet-project-to-powerhouse.html
Amazon only allows free promotions 5 days out of every 90 days, and only if the author requests it — which I probably won’t do again! So if you know someone who you think would benefit from the book, or if you don’t have it yet, let them know they can get it free if […]
Get it here –> https://www.createspace.com/4160126
A special thanks to the organizers of the Boston PHP group, which hosted a “lightning rounds” session giving 6 speakers a chance to speak for 15 minutes each. I went 5th and my presentation starts at 1:27
How I took sample code from an article on Google Dev works and used it to build a Google maps enabled boat ramp finder
Regretfully, this this site gets so much comment spam, I don’t think I can allow comments anymore. The occasional great comments and discussions I was hoping to get are drowned out in a flood of spam. None of it ever gets posted on the site, so you think people would give up… but it is […]