As we showed previously with WordPress, detecting the Joomla! version from its source code is also possible. Although not that straight-forward as WordPress. The best success I had was to use multiple approaches, so if one fails, the code moves to the others. It should be also noted that with some approaches the best you…
As a PHP developer, sometimes you would have to deal with long-running scripts. As you might know, in the php.ini file there is a setting called max_execution_time which by default is set to 30 seconds. Meaning any particular script could only run for 30 seconds before it exits. On some hosts, you can find it…
In recent times the ZOOM app became very popular for creating and attending online meetings and webinars. As a web developer, more often than not, you would be required to interact somehow with their APIs. Either to register users to a meeting or to retrieve some users’ or registrants’ data for further processing. Recently I…
If it happens that you are running a Dual Boot Windows/Linux setup on some of your machines, you probably encountered this situation already. The thing is that when you do not do a Clean Shut Down or Restart on the Windows OS, or some error was generated, or the Hibernation is enabled in Windows, then…
On a recent project I was working on, I was assigned a task to detect the WordPress version on a bunch of supplied URLs. I did some research, had a better look at the source code that WP produces, and did some testing. I found out that there are three simplest and most reliable ways…
Sometimes, when you’re working on a WordPress project with a tight deadline, you have to come up with quick and easy ways to do certain things. For example, to batch send emails to multiple users, either from a DB or from a CSV file, etc. Instead of going the “right” path by finding some plugin…