The PHP CLI (command line interface) allows basic syntax checking of a PHP file. I’ll show the basic usage of this in this post and then a couple of ways to check all files in a directory, and all files recursively down the directory tree as posted by a couple of people on Twitter.
Last week I wrote how to load JSON data with jQuery, PHP and MySQL, noting at the end that there can be some caching issues which may or may not be a problem depending on your implementation. I look at this here and a possible solution.
Almost a year ago I showed how to have a password field show plain text with a default plain-text value but then be an actual password field when the user clicks into it, implementing this with jQuery. Just recently someone asked in the comments on that page how to do the same thing if you cannot modify the HTML itself, so show how to do that in this post.
If you have a directory which users can upload files into it’s a good idea for security reasons to disable server-side parsing of scripts such as PHP. This post shows a couple of options using Apache’s .htaccess files.
Some time back I posted how to get and set form element values with jQuery just showing the HTML and Javascript needed to do so but without an actual demo. Someone asked for some demos of these yesterday so I present these here.
I recently showed how to load data into MySQL with foreign key constraint issues when loading a backup from tab delimited text files. This post provides a BASH command line script to generate the SQL to load all the files to save some time.