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 […]

Facebook App Development tips, guides, and possible solution to issues

September 16, 2013November 9, 2015 Catzie Leave a comment

In July 2013, I began learning about developing apps that run in Facebook. For a web developer especially one who works in a marketing agency, learning about Facebook app development is important nowadays because numerous amounts of campaigns are ran on Facebook. At first Facebook app development confused me, but after some exposure to it […]

OpenCart: Override Invoice ID

March 13, 2011January 3, 2014 Catzie 7 Comments

Edit: Seems like there’s something missing in the code I inserted. I only found out after further system testing. Will update this post when I feel like fixing it. :p I’m taking an E-Commerce class (it’s my last school term!) and my group’s project in an online store that uses OpenCart, an open-source shopping cart […]

Wrapping text in table cells and DIV tags

September 24, 2010November 9, 2015 Catzie Leave a comment

I’ve been doing research on how to wrap texts. First solution I found was giving the CSS property word-wrap the value break-word: word-wrap: break-word But this didn’t work in Firefox.

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 […]