Category: Web Dev

Simplest way to reduce the page number links in Laravel

Programming, Tech and IT, Web Dev
Laravel Pagination

Recently and currently(Laravel 5.6) Laravel is using Bootstrap-4 and they’ve updated all their views accordingly, and when you want to use Laravel’s pagination feature you may have a bit of a problem in the mobile world as there are too many page links to be shown in an esthetic way on a mobile screen.

So you can do a lot of things to resolve this problem but the simplest way available is to change the view which defines the links listening.
First, we need to publish that view, this will force Laravel to use the published view, not the one residing in the app-source/vendor directory.
We do that with the following command:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-pagination

You should immediately see after executing the command the following:

Copied Directory [\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Pagination\resources\views] To [\resources\views\vendor\pagination]
Publishing complete.
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Fast way to set up a form with PHPMailer and Ajax

Programming, Tech and IT, Web Dev
PHPMailer and Ajax

PHPMailer is a popular library for sending emails as the project of the title suggests. In GitHub, the readme file has a nice example of a basic setup, but today I’ll give you a similar simple example using jQuery, Swal( Sweet alert ).

So first this is the PHP script that should respond to an ajax request (for example a file named smail.php):

<?php
error_reporting(0);
// Import PHPMailer classes into the global namespace
// These must be at the top of your script, not inside a function
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;

//Load composer's autoloader
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

function isValidEmail($email){
    return filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) !== false;
}

	$name = htmlspecialchars($_POST["name"]);
	$email = htmlspecialchars($_POST["email"]);
	$msg =  htmlspecialchars($_POST["message"]);
	$recap = htmlspecialchars($_POST["g-recaptcha-response"]);
	$gcapSecret = 'YOUR RECAPTCHA2 SECRET';

if( !empty($name
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PHP Class for modifying old HTML static copies / mirrors

Programming, Tech and IT, Web Dev
HTML static copies

Ok you made a static mirror(maybe with HTTrack, maybe with something else) and you still want to host it somewhere, but you also want to make a change to all the static pages without modifying each and every one of the files. In that case, you need to load that file using a script that reads the file at the time of loading then makes the changes you want and after that displays it. Sound simple enough so I made a PHP class that does just that and I even wrote 2 flavors of the script to work on an ancient PHP version( and by ancient I mean around 2010 5.3.x). View full article