Adrian Rowbotham aderowbotham

Setup `php-mcrypt` on macOS (and versions of Mac OS X)

These steps should have been mentioned in the prerequisites of the Laravel Installation Guide, since I'm surely not the only person trying to get Laravel running on macOS.

Install

Install Mcrypt using Homebrew and PECL (comes with PHP)

# PHP 7.3

Change default Mac OS X PHP to MAMP's PHP Installation and Install Composer Package Management

Instructions to Change PHP Installation

First, Lets find out what version of PHP we're running (To find out if it's the default version).

To do that, Within the terminal, Fire this command:

which php

Never Expose DB Results Directly

If you rename a field, then your users are fucked. Convert with a hardcoded array structure.
Most DB drivers [for PHP] will show integers as numeric strings and false as "0", so you want to typecast them.
Unless you're using an ORM with "hidden" functionality, people will see passwords, salts and all sorts of fancy codes. If you add one and forget to put it in your $hidden array then OOPS!

Use the URI sparingly, and correctly

Use the query string for paired params instead of /users/id/5/active/true. Your API does not need to be SEO optimised.
?format=xml is stupid, use an Accept: application/xml header. I added this to the CodeIgniter Rest Server once for lazy people, and now people think it's a thing. It's not.

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	<!--
	This disables app transport security and allows non-HTTPS requests.
	Note: it is not recommended to use non-HTTPS requests for sensitive data. A better
	approach is to fix the non-secure resources. However, this patch will work in a pinch.

	To apply the fix in your Ionic/Cordova app, edit the file located here:

	platforms/ios/MyApp/MyApp-Info.plist

	And add this XML right before the end of the file inside of the last </dict> entry:

	<?php
	/**
	* Compare version numbers of the format X.Y.Z where X,Y,Z are non-negative integers
	* Values with less than three parts will be padded out with zeros, eg. "1.1" becomes "1.1.0", "1" becomes "1.0.0"
	*
	* @return 1 if $a is greater (a later version) than $b, 0 if $a is equal to $b, -1 if $a is less (an earlier version) than $b
	*
	*/
	function version_cmp($a, $b) {

	var tweet = "Currently chilling out at W1B 2EL, then on to WC2E 8HA or maybe even L1 8JF! :-)";

	// Here's a simple regex that tries to recognise postcode-like strings.
	// See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdom#Validation
	// for the rules on how UK postcodes are formatted.
	var postcode_regex = /[A-Z]{1,2}[0-9][0-9A-Z]?\s?[0-9][A-Z]{2}/g;

	var postcodes = tweet.match(postcode_regex);

	console.log(postcodes);

	<!doctype html>
	<html ng-app="myApp">
	<head>
	<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.0.5/angular.min.js"></script>
	</head>
	<body>

	<div ng-controller="TodoCtrl">
	<button ng-click="beQuickOrBeDead()">Fetch with 100ms timeout</button>
	<button ng-click="neverEndingStory()">Fetch with default timeout</button>

	/*
	* Decide on your cache-busting strategy. In this example, we use the current timestamp, which will
	* force a change every time the app is visited, but not every time the partial is loaded within a
	* visit. Even better would be to use a hash of the file's contents to ensure that the file is always
	* reloaded when the file changes and never reloaded when it isn't.
	*/
	var cacheBustSuffix = Date.now();

	// Optionally, expose the cache busting value as a constant so other parts of your app can use it.
	ngModule.constant("cacheBustSuffix", cacheBustSuffix);