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[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=./lockScreen.sh lock_screen.log
Hidden=false
NoDisplay=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
Name[en]=Log lock screen events
Name=Log lock screen events
Comment[en]=
Comment=

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<?php

/**
 * @param string $regex
 * @return bool
 */
function isValidRegularExpression($regex) {
    set_error_handler(function() {}, E_WARNING);
    $valid = preg_match($regex, null) !== FALSE;
    restore_error_handler();

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<?php
/**
 * This is for everyone who hates the indenting behavior of switch/case.
 *
 * If using PSR-2 and you're getting this error:
 * PSR2.ControlStructures.SwitchDeclaration.WrongOpenercase
 * @see https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer/issues/3016
 */

$var = 'foo';

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<?php

/**
 * @param string $row
 * @return array
 *     An assoc with the following properties:
 *     - name
 *     - type: one of directory, file, link, unknown
 *     - size
 *     - owner

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<?php

class AppServiceProvider
{
    public function boot()
    {
        // The closure will only be called if the attribute is in the request.
        Validator::extend('forbidden', function ($attribute, $value, $parameters) {
            // Always return false.
            return false;

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It's time for user agents to stop requesting this file.

- https://www.w3.org/2005/10/howto-favicon
- https://blog.whatwg.org/the-road-to-html-5-link-relations#rel-icon

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<?php

foreach (Imagick::queryFonts() as $fontName) {
    $image = new Imagick;
    $draw = new ImagickDraw;
    $draw->setGravity(Imagick::GRAVITY_CENTER);
    $draw->setFont($fontName);
    $draw->setFontSize(12);
    $draw->setFillColor('black');
    $image->newImage(300, 20, 'lightblue');

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<?php

/**
 * This is an alternative way of handling warnings from calling count() on
 * non-countables. It's just an error handler that drops the warning, and calls
 * the previous error handler for everything else (if there is one).
 */

$previous = set_error_handler(function ($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline, $errcontext) use (&$previous) {
    // Do nothing with an E_WARNING from count.

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<?php
/**
 * Some PHP frameworks are sensitive to non-fatal PHP errors (even notices).
 * Those same frameworks are strict about other things, like typing, and only
 * use strict comparisons. On the other hand, they use count() on scalars
 * without doing a type check, and rely on the bogus return value of `1`.
 * The PHP devs considered this legacy behavior of PHP's count (to return `1`
 * for scalars) a problem, and relying on it a BUG. So in PHP 7.2, the function
 * still returns the same values, but it now triggers an E_WARNING.
 * Since those frameworks use count on scalars in various places, now PHP

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#!/bin/bash

php -n \
-d "extension=mbstring.so" \
-d "extension=pdo.so" \
-d "extension=pdo_sqlite.so" \
-d "extension=json.so" \
-d "extension=phar.so" \
-d "extension=tokenizer.so" \
-d "extension=xml.so" \