This is the best explanation with code in PHP I have found so far: http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/managing-cron-jobs-with-php–net-19428 In short: Although the syntax of scheduling a new job may seem daunting at first glance, it’s actually relatively simple to understand once you break it down. A cron job will always have five columns each of which represent a … Read more
The short answer is NO, PDO prepares will not defend you from all possible SQL-Injection attacks. For certain obscure edge-cases. I’m adapting this answer to talk about PDO… The long answer isn’t so easy. It’s based off an attack demonstrated here. The Attack So, let’s start off by showing the attack… In certain circumstances, that will return more than … Read more
From what I’ve read, this error means that you’re not referencing the table name correctly. One common reason is that the table is defined with a mixed-case spelling, and you’re trying to query it with all lower-case. In other words, the following fails: Use double-quotes to delimit identifiers so you can use the specific mixed-case … Read more
Php has an inbuilt JSON Serialising function. json_encode Please use that if you can and don’t suffer Not Invented Here syndrome.
I figured it out. json_encode handles objects differently than strings. I cast the object to a string and it works now.
date(“F d, Y”, strtotime($input))
Try str_replace(‘ ‘, ‘-‘, $string);
Someone here suggests that it might be a firewall problem: I have just had this problem and found it was my firewall. I use PCTools Firewall Plus and it wasn’t allowing full access to MySQL. Once I changed that it was fine. Hope that helps. Could that be it? Also, someone here suggests that it might be because the … Read more
For PHP >= 5.3.0 try PHP magic constants. And make your path relative. For PHP < 5.3.0 try
Well… I figured out what was going on. File::exists(public_path() . “/video/$user”) is looking for this: /home/ubuntu/workspace/site/public/video/N And Storage::makeDirectory(public_path() . “/video/$user”) is creating a directory in: /home/ubuntu/workspace/site/storage/app/public/video/N So I can go to site/config/filesystems.php and change the routes for app and app/public ; you can check them by using the helper storage_path(‘app’).But, instead, I decided to save the videos in the storage/app/public/video and storage/app/public/thumbnails, and I am getting some package’s … Read more