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How to protect PHP source Code?

IT, PHP, PHP tools

When to keep your PHP code logic secret? Whenever you need to pass a script to a client, but you are afraid that it will get copied and reused elsewhere without your permission. How to protect your PHP code? You could implement code "blockers". Provide a licence key...

VPS DirectAdmin running out of space

IT

Login to your VPS with SSH Find all files larger them 500 MB find / -type f -size +500M -exec ls -lh {} \; List root dir sizes. Or any current folder (run without /) du -h --max-depth=1 / Remove specific files: sudo rm -R nameofthefile...

Auto tagging in Google Ads

IT

G to your account tab, from there click on to Account Settings and find campaign URL settings: function main() { var adGroupIterator = AdsApp.adGroups().withCondition("CampaignStatus = ENABLED").get(); while (adGroupIterator.hasNext()) { var adGroup =...

PHP-apache image – How to change php.ini settings in docker container with Dockerfile.

IT

If you want to learn how to add a custom php.ini file to your apache-php image, install new extensions and edit configuration settings, stay with me for the next few minutes. As often, the best way to learn is to look on the working example so lets install xdebug and...

Best programming fonts? CaskaydiaCove NF vs Fira Code.

Programming, Tools

Two most popular programming fonts CaskaydiaCove NF and Fira Code. Both very similar in terms of features. Which ever you pick, both are a great choice. CaskaydiaCove NF Nerdfontss - link Fira Code Google fonts - link

PrestaShop plugin / widget development – Setting up development environment for PrestaShop with docker.

PHP, PrestaShop, WebDevelopment

Before we start to develop a simple module / widget, we need to set up our development environment. For that, we will use docker. You can use docker on Linux, Mac, and Windows (WSL2), hoverer there are small differences in usage and performance between those...

Storing password in git?

GIT, IT, IT Help Desk, WebDevelopment

To store passwords in GIT you need to be able to encrypt and decrypt the password. You can do that using GPG tool. Both tools are available for a variety of platforms. See the instruction below on how to install the tooling and at the very end how to use them to store...

Docker PHP 2022

IT

GitHub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuSWKx9FSso https://www.pascallandau.com/blog/docker-from-scratch-for-php-applications-in-2022/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6gaVR21fnw&list=PLScVLZNShARRTO-ebug0yzbiXDxtw0rtg&index=10

Mounting a Windows network drive on WLS

Linux, Networking, WSL/WSL2

By default, you have no access to windows network directories. Those are not visible or accessible unless you will mount them in /mnt/somedir folder. Firts lets crete a folder with in mnt directory that will be then mounted to our network drive. sudo mkdir...

How to verify file signature?

IT

To check if the file came from a legitimate source, we often need to compare file signature and checksum. But how do we do that? As an example, we will download a Cygwin installation file. Then we will check if the file came from a legitimate source by comparing a...

Windows 10/11 – Copy & Replace only new or modified files. Skip same/unchanged files.

IT, IT Help Desk, Windows

Skipping unchanged/unmodified files using Copy&Paste on Windows? Did you ever try how to move a whole directory to a backup folder, skipping all files which were not changed? This can not be done with simple copy/paste in Windows GUI. However, Windows already has...

PrestaShop Database

PrestaShop

Understanding PrestaShop. To be able to understand and think in PrestaShop. We first need to get to know the PrestaShop database. A model database is available for version 1.4.7.2 (SQL Schema) [here]. However, for PrestaShop 1.7 The database structure of PrestaShop...