PHP: get full URL of current page with GET params or without

February 17, 2016 Catzie Leave a comment

The following string variable’s value will get the full URL of the current page, including GET arguments/params, if present.

<?php

$full_current_url = "http://" . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
echo $full_current_url;

?>

<?php

$full_current_url = "http://" . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

echo $full_current_url;

To get the full URL of current page but WITHOUT the GET args/params, do this instead:

<?php

$full_current_url = "http://" . strtok($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], "?");
echo $full_current_url;

?>

<?php

$full_current_url = "http://" . strtok($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], "?");

echo $full_current_url;

The strtok function will return only the part of the URL string up to the character before question […]

PHP: avoid backslash on json_encode

February 16, 2016 Catzie Leave a comment

Hey! 🙂 If you are encoding your Arrays to JSON in PHP using json_encode() and the function adds backslash before your slashes, I’m gonna show you a quick fix. This is my original code:

<?php
$arr = array();
$arr['success'] = true;
$arr['message'] = "Please enter email/phone number.";
echo json_encode($arr);
?>

<?php

$arr = array();

$arr['success'] = true;

$arr['message'] = "Please enter email/phone number.";

echo json_encode($arr);

And the result is: {“success”:true,”message”:”Please enter email\/phone number.”} See the added backslash before the slash? Ugly, right? To avoid that, […]

Laravel 5: How to change Auth URL from “/auth/login” to just “login”:

January 27, 2016January 27, 2016 Catzie Leave a comment

Just sharing a link telling us how to remove the “auth” in the URL for Laravel’s pre-made login system. You need to modify App\Http\Middleware\Authenticate::handle() method and change auth/login to /login. Then you need to add $loginPath property to your \App\Http\Controllers\Auth\AuthController class. Source: How to change default redirect URL of Laravel 5 Auth filter?

Laravel 5 Folder Structure, Before and After

January 8, 2016January 7, 2016 Catzie Leave a comment

Hey! 🙂 This is a page I’m preparing quickly for developers who are used to the folder structure of Laravel 4 and older, just to serve as reference on where we can find things in Laravel 5 now. If like me, you are new to Laravel 5 but have developed apps using older Laravel versions, […]

How to make a basic “Login via Facebook” with PHP & JavaScript

September 8, 2015November 9, 2015 Catzie 1 Comment

You’ve seen how some popular websites let you register or login via Facebook — Pinterest, Vimeo, Lifehacker, and many more. In this blog post, I’ll show you the very basic setup of the Facebook login button for your website. It is up to you to enhance the functions of your registration system. Note: There are […]

PHP: Dynamic inclusion tutorial

September 13, 2009November 9, 2015 Catzie Leave a comment

I’m posting this because I thought that it might help some people who want to structurize their website in a way that they can easily edit pages which contain contents and pages which contain the code of the layout, as we separate layout code from contents in dynamic inclusion. This is for PHP beginners, but […]