Web Development

In this post, we will convert an array to object using PHP hydrator pattern. This method is so simple, it’s about transferring data from one place to another. We will define a class that will take an array and an object as inputs and search for all set() methods in the object and fills it […]

If you want to process large files using PHP, you may use some of the ordinary PHP functions like file_get_contents() or file() which has a limitation when working with very large files. Memory Limitation These functions rely on the memory_limit setting in php.ini file, you may increase the value but these functions still are not […]

If you want to use a package in Laravel, you simply add a single line in composer.json file and the job is done. This is because the package is available in packagist.org, what if the package that you want to use is a non-Composer Laravel package? Maybe available on a git repo or a private […]

Many websites give their users a custom subdomain for their profiles or pages, so instead of accessing the user’s profile at http://website.com/users/50, the user can access his profile page at http://username.website.com  which is much better. In this post, we will see how to make dynamic Laravel subdomain routing easily. Configure DNS To make this trick, […]

Laravel framework has a powerful protection from CSRF, XSS, and SQL injection, but there is no built-in Laravel spam protection. If you need to protect your form from spam bots, you can use something like Akismet or reCaptcha which provide strong spam protection. OK, but your users maybe don’t like it because of the nag […]

How to Prevent SQL Injection Attacks? Before we talk about how to prevent SQL injection, we have to know the impact of SQL Injection attack which is one of the most dangerous attacks on the web. The attacker can steal your data or even worse, the whole web server can be stolen from one SQL injection vulnerability. I wrote this post to […]

Before I show you how to auto start wampserver, I’ll talk about it a bit. Wampserver is one of the best stacks for web development on the Windows platform. I prefer it over xampp because of the handy tray menu that lets me access any configuration. You can download wampserver from this website wampserver The […]