TIL that PHP 7.2 doesn’t support mcrypt and MySQL 5.7.5+ changed GROUP BY behavior. Both break Craft CMS. Here is how to solve those issues.
Tag PHP
How to Back Up Your Laravel Homestead Databases
Today I upgraded from Homestead 4.0.0 to 5.0.1 so I could test my sites in PHP 7. That was a major upgrade and a number of things changed, so I decided that I needed to back up my databases before I did the upgrade. I’d only ever dumped specific databases before, but TIL how to dump them all at once. Here is how to do that in Laravel Homestead.
Loading scripts in WordPress with wp_enqueue_scripts
Here is how to load scripts on specific pages in WordPress with wp_enqueue_scripts
Hiding Categories from the Jekyll Paginator, Unless, and Insert statements
TIL how to hide my TIL posts from the front page of my site, the Unless tag, and inserting mysql with PHP.
Connecting and Writing to MySQL with PHP
TIL the basics of connecting to a MySQL database and creating tables in PHP.
WordPress Plugins, Development Planning for New Developers
TIL a new-to-me development philosophy and the basic parts of creating a WordPress plugin.
Checking for Keys and Looking Up Values in Arrays, Restricting Files in .htaccess
TIL how to check for keys and look up values in arrays, as well as how to restrict files via .htaccess.
Basic Logging with PHP and Syntax Highlighting in Jekyll
TIL how to do basic logging to CSV in PHP and how to highlight syntax in Jekyll.
Unicode Conversions in PHP and Remote Git Repos
TIL how to convert unicode characters in PHP and I released my first personal project on Github.
CSS Inheritance, Datetime Conversions in PHP
TIL about date/time conversions in PHP and a lesson about automatic inheritance in CSS.
Photoshop Patterns, Homestead Provisioning, Composer Basics
TIL two ways to tile patterns in Photoshop. One is manual and time consuming, the other is fast, easy, and less prone to error. I also re-learned some stuff about Homestead and Composer.