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Nginx and PHP Setup on Windows

For local development you could also use Nginx with PHP as an replacement for XAMPP.

Install Nginx

• Download Nginx for Windows: http://nginx.org/en/download.html | Direct: nginx-1.19.7.zip
• Extract the ZIP file to c:\nginx
• Open the file c:/nginx/config/nginx.conf and replace the server { ... } section with this configuration:

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@echo off

winget list

winget uninstall "Solitaire & Casual Games"
winget uninstall "Microsoft Kontakte"
winget uninstall "Movies & TV"
winget uninstall "News"
winget uninstall "Get Help"
winget uninstall "Microsoft People"

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Installing Xdebug for XAMPP with PHP 7.x

• New: XAMPP - XDebug Setup for PHP 8

Requirements

• XAMPP for Windows: https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html
• Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019

Setup

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XAMPP - Replacing MariaDB with MySQL

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Mocking Interfaces with PHPUnit

Using the MockBuilder

To mock an interface with PHPUnit we have to pass all methods of the given Interface.

 $reflection = new \ReflectionClass(UserRepositoryInterface::class);

$methods = [];

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<?php

use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Cell\Coordinate;
use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Reader\Xlsx;

/**
 * ExcelFileReader.
 */
class ExcelFileReader
{

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Remove HTML tags

<?php

$html = '<div class="cc">
    Explore the use of simple 
    <a class="keyword_w_elaboration">technologies</a>
    <div class="elaboration" style="text-decoration:none">
 

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Installing ASP.NET Core on Ubuntu 18.4 Linux

The URL has changed: https://odan.github.io/2018/07/17/aspnet-core-2-ubuntu-setup.html

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<?php

$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$dom->formatOutput = true;
$dom->loadXML(file_get_contents(__DIR__ . '/demo.xml'));

$dom = removeAllNamespaces($dom);

$dom->save('demo-out.xml');

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Spliting a PDF file into multiple PDF files

This function extracts all of the pages from a larger PDF file into single-page PDF files.

Installation

composer require setasign/fpdi-fpdf