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That theme you just bought may not be safe
We’ve all been there. You create a new site and don’t have time to design your own theme for it. You go to either Google or one of the many available theme purchasing sites and buy a theme for your site and voila, all done. But not all themes are safe, even the ones from…
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All Your Contact Forms Are Belong to Us: Critical Vulnerability Found in PHPMailer
David Golunski found a big vulnerability in PHPMailer. Essentially the sender data isn’t sanitized in PHPMailer versions less than 5.2.18. More details at Wordfence. The 4.7 version of WordPress has PHPMailer in it’s core in /wp-includes/class-smtp.php.
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Good Drupal 8 Theme Book
Check out “Drupal 8 Theming with Twig” by Chaz Chumley over at Packt. It’s a straightforward intro to using Twig with Drupal 8. Between now and Jan 1 2017, all e-books are $5! Note: I did run into an issue with using the db to update between chapters and Drupal 8.2.4. There are a few…
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Haven’t learned PHP 7.0? You’re going to learn it now: Laravel 5.5 Will Require It
“But my job is only using 5.6…” Well, it’s time to learn PHP 7.0 because Laravel 5.5 is gonna require it. Check out the details here at Laravel News!
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Get OpCache running on scotchbox : Simple Saturday
Working on a Drupal8 project and using scotchbox for the dev enviroment does not have OpCache enabled by default. You’d think that the php.ini file to enable it would be in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini, but you’d be wrong. The setting is actually in /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/user.ini .
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Good Bootstrap to WordPress Tutorial
So, I had to pick back up my wordpress theming skills for a job I’m starting, and found a good tutorial that shows you how to convert a bootstrap site to a wordpress theme. (Kill two birds with one stone). Check out Building WordPress Themes with Bootstrap over at EnvatoTuts+ by Adi Purdilla
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Hacking 27% of the Web via WordPress Auto-Update
We think that some of the tools that we use for the web are secure if it comes automatically from a central point. Well, the guys over at Wordfence found a pretty significant point of failure at the api.wordpress.org service.
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Laravel 5.3 is now available
New major features have been added Laravel Scout : Laravel Scout is a new driver based full-text search engine for Eloquent Laravel Passport : You need to make an OAuth 2 server? Laravel Passport has got you covered. Get one set up in a few minutes. Laravel Echo : Laravel Echo is an improvement to…
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Simple-Saturday: Easy Way to Format Your Select Query Results. Ain’t Nuthin’ but a \G Thang.
Most of the time, when we do a query, we get a large jumble of results like so. If you use the’\G’ at the very end of your query, your results are better formatted, like so. A much better alternative when querying against tables with 10 or more fields, I think.
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Learning Magento 2
I’ve done Magento 1 development for some years and was really eager when I heard that Magento 2 would be released. I preordered a few Magento 2 developer books at the end of 2015. I tried to go through a few and realized that some had major issues, (i.e. Vagrant configurations not working, or incomplete…