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Joe Steinbring

PHP

A server-side language that still runs a large share of the web. The two entries are the ends of its spectrum: Laravel as a modern application framework, WordPress as the content platform most PHP sites actually are.

I taught myself PHP at Starkmedia, where most of my work was still ColdFusion, and have written a great deal of it since at UW-Milwaukee and Bader Rutter, along with dozens of articles about it.

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LaravelI first used Laravel at UW-Milwaukee from 2016, converting the university's ColdFusion applications to it, and I value it for its expressive syntax and productive application-development conventions.WordPressI have built and maintained WordPress sites across multiple agencies, run my own long-running publishing site, and use its ActivityPub integration to participate in the Fediverse.

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Related writing

Articles from JWS News and DEV that relate to PHP.

  1. How to deploy a PHP app to Azure

    In a previous post, we covered how to deploy a Node.js app to Azure. This time, we are going to...

  2. Learning Laravel: Protected Routes and Authentication

    Previously in this series, we have looked at how to install laravel, how laravel works, and how to deploy a laravel app. In today’s post, we are going to look at how you would protect a route so that the user would need to login in order to view a webpage.

  3. How to deploy a Laravel app

    As I promised in the most recent Laravel post, today we are going to talk about how to deploy a Laravel app to a production environment. At the time that I write this, the most recent version of Laravel is 9.x but when you read this, there is a good chance that 10.x or 11.x…

  4. Learning Laravel: What is Laravel?

    In last week’s laravel post, I mentioned that Laravel is an open-source PHP framework that uses the model–view–controller (or MVC for short) architectural pattern. This week, I want to drill down more on what that means.

  5. Learning Laravel: Composer and The Laravel Installer

    I spent years writing Laravel code at UWM but you might have noticed that I almost never wrote anything on this blog about it. I am hoping to address that here and now. If you don’t already know, Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web framework, intended for the development of w…

  6. PHP function of the day: sha1()

    For day 21 of 21 in the “PHP Function of the day” series, I’m going to look at sha1(). This is similar to the md5() function that we looked at on day 12. I’ll start by saying that sha1 isn’t great and should not be used for storing password hashes. Let’s take a look. <?php $stri…

From GitHub

Small, self-contained PHP examples that I published publicly.

  1. How to install the oci8 PHP plugin if you are using macOS and Laravel Herd

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  2. No matter what the original width and height is of the source image, this function will resize…

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  3. This code uses the Luhn formula to validate your credit card number. This acts as error…

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  4. This gets the user's location, via their IP address. If the user's IP address is reported as…

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