Background

Seasoned (read: old) PHP programmer definitely must have used this MySQL extension most of the time. Build a quick and dirty demo application or proof of concept application, this extension is pretty straightforward. The MySQL extension is the oldest of the three and was the original option developers used to communicate with MySQL. However, this extension is now being deprecated in PHP 5.5 and removed in PHP 7.0. So the choice now is between the other two alternatives because of improvements made in newer releases of both PHP and MySQL and security issues.

Background

All web app developers, who have started using modern frameworks like Symfony, Slim, Laravel etc and have wished for the composer support inside their CodeIgniter application, I will try to show you the most efficient and standardized way to achieve this goal. If you are concerned to get support for composer with codeigniter in an existing application, you can totally do that without much worry as well.

Background

• Sometimes I need to access some government-blocked website
• My internet provider tracks my visited websites and inject my browser with ads.

Solution

Back in college when our sysadmins were blocking most active Indonesian forum, we use SSH tunnel to bypass his proxy. I still remember each steps to configure the tunnel in PuTTY.

Background

I live in a lovely developing country, Indonesia. Internet is still an expensive thing and bandwidth is not so high among other nearby countries. You can find the comparison below.

Background

Earlier today, I'm experiencing an error after uploading Laravel application to production server. Google'd the error message and comes with minimal match. Well, I guess because it's OS and Redis version specific issue. The error itself says: ERR unknown command 'EVAL'.