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How to protect PHP source Code?

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...

VPS DirectAdmin running out of space

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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...

Auto tagging in Google Ads

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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.

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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

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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?

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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...