A recent project required me to write a automated SSL certificate checker that would ping me every-time a SSL renewal is due. The project required to parse a handful of client sites and get the SSL information.
Reading a SSL certificate directly from a domain is relatively simple in PHP. A working example function is given below.
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The following short PHP code will enable you to extract urls from a standard WordPress xml sitemap or any other website sitemap adhering to the sitemap schema.
PHP command-line interface (CLI) includes a nifty option to quickly check for any syntax errors in a source code file. A simple check for a single file is given below. The option flag to check is -l (lowercase ‘L’).
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The following PHP script will quickly find all the links on a web page, removing any duplicates and also giving the total count for any duplicate links found.
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A MVC Router class or a Dispatcher inspects the URL of an HTTP request and attempts to match individual URL components to a Controller and a method defined in that controller, passing along any arguments to the method defined.
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During a recent data conversion project I needed to convert around 250 CSV files to Excel (xls) format. As this was a PHP project I decided to write a small PHP script using the PhpSpreadsheet library.
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