How to set up an Nginx Web Server in 3 easy steps Get a Server with Ubuntu Get a domain name Get WebCP.io web hosting control panel In case you’re wondering how to set up an Nginx web server with PHP 7.2, mail, webmail, FTP, built-in optimisation and built-in security, you’re in luck. I’m going to show you exactly how it’s done. And it’s easier than you think. 1. Get a server: What I use for SoftSmart is an…
On one of my client’s sites they have the regular social sharing icons. When a visitor clicks on the share to facebook link it populates that share with some default info, and very importantly the image. This is important to them because they run image voting sites. I was asked to see if I could fathom why the image was missing on facebook sharing. The first thing I checked was the open graph (OG) tags on the site. The…
Zend Opcache in PHP improves your page speed by compiling code into machine code and storing the byte code in RAM. With each subsequent hit to a resource code is served from memory rather than being compiled again. PHP is an interpreted language. What this means is that unlike languages like C / C++, PHP is not compiled once to machine code and then executed from the binary each time. With PHP, each time a page is viewed on your…
PHP namespaces allow you to namespace your functions! Ok, so I know that’s circular reasoning. Let’s see what that means. We’re all familiar with the way that files and folders work on our PCs. If you have two files with the same name, then they cannot exist in the same folder. So, if I have a file called notes.txt with all my work related notes, then I can’t also have a file called notes.txt with all my personal related notes…