Better strings in PHP

25th July 2018 9:25 pm

One of the weaknesses of PHP as a programming language is the limitations of some of the fundamental types. For instance, a string in PHP is…

Forcing SSL in CodeIgniter

23rd June 2018 12:03 pm

I haven't started a new CodeIgniter project since 2014, and don't intend to, but on occasion I've been asked to do maintenance work on…

Logging to the ELK stack with Laravel

3rd June 2018 3:30 pm

Logging to text files is the simplest and most common logging setup for web apps, and it works fine for relatively small and simple…

Full-text search with MariaDB

13th May 2018 1:55 pm

Recently I had the occasion to check out MariaDB's implementation of full-text search. As it's a relatively recent arrival in MySQL and…