PHP – Chuck Grimmett

Troubleshooting Problems Installing Craft CMS on Laravel Homestead

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.

April 2, 2018

Craft CMS, MySQL, 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…

January 24, 2018

Homestead, PHP, SQL
Loading scripts in WordPress with wp_enqueue_scripts

Here is how to load scripts on specific pages in WordPress with wp_enqueue_scripts

July 19, 2016

PHP, WordPress
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.

March 3, 2016

Jekyll, Liquid, PHP, SQL
Connecting and Writing to MySQL with PHP

TIL the basics of connecting to a MySQL database and creating tables in PHP.

March 2, 2016

PHP, SQL
WordPress Plugins, Development Planning for New Developers

TIL a new-to-me development philosophy and the basic parts of creating a WordPress plugin.

March 1, 2016

Philosophy of work, PHP, WordPress
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.

February 24, 2016

Infrastructure, PHP
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.

February 23, 2016

Jekyll, PHP
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.

February 21, 2016

Git, PHP
CSS Inheritance, Datetime Conversions in PHP

TIL about date/time conversions in PHP and a lesson about automatic inheritance in CSS.

February 20, 2016

CSS, PHP
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.

February 13, 2016

Apps, PHP

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