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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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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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<?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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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Globalization;

// CultureInfo culture = new CultureInfo("en-US");

// Full-date notation as defined by RFC 3339, section 5.6, for example, 2024-03-28
string date1 = string.Format("{0:yyyy}-{0:MM}-{0:dd}", DateTime.Now);
Console.WriteLine(date1);

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Sign SOAP messages with xmlseclibs

Requirements

• PHP 7.4+
• OpenSSL

Generating Public and Private Keys

First we have to create a private key for signature creation, and a public key for verification.

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Creating a ASP.NET Core Web API from scratch

Requires .NET 8 SDK

dotnet new sln -o MyApi
cd MyApi

dotnet new webapi -o MyApi

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Convert video to a Twitter-friendly format

Simple, but with minimum modification:

ffmpeg -i "input.mp4" -pix_fmt yuv420p -vcodec libx264 "output.mp4"

Resizes the video and may better support encodings:

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Generating UUID v4 in MySQL

SELECT
  LOWER(
    CONCAT(
      # 1th and 2nd block are made of 6 random bytes
      HEX(RANDOM_BYTES(4)),
      '-',
 HEX(RANDOM_BYTES(2)),

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Free PHP Webhosting

• https://www.infinityfree.com/
• https://x10hosting.com/

Inexpensive Webhosting

• https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ ($0.25)
• https://www.netcup.eu/ (~ $30 / year)
• https://www.manitu.de/webhosting/

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File Operations in C++

Reading a file into a string variable

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

fstream file("file.name.xml", fstream::in);