Nginx: redirect a subdomain to a subdirectory without changing the url
We wanted these redirections: project.example.com => www.example.com/project (without changing the url) project.example.com/whatever => www.example.com/whatever (with changing the url) In other words: I wanted a subdomain that was nothing more than…
Read more »Laravel use Memcache instead of MemcacheD
Laravel works out of the box with Memcached. However there’s a difference between the linux programs Memcached and Memcache (without the D). To get Laravel to work with Memcache you…
Read more »A custom login/register page for Drupal 6
This tutorial explains how to created a single page with a login form an a register form in Drupal6. To accomplish this, we have to go through some concepts first:
Read more »PHP: check if ‘rijksregisternummer’ is valid.
I couldn’t find a decent PHP function to check the validation of the so called “rijksregisternummer” in Belgium (or “numéro de registre national” in French). I did however find a…
Read more »DrupalCamp Leuven 2013, a brief Saturday review.
It felt like a Monday morning. After my alarm clock didn’t get off (+ 1 hour), I noticed there was only a train 1 hour later, so instead of arriving…
Read more »Why is everybody using Disqus?
It’s like a virus these days. Every blog I come across uses Disqus as a comment system (if they don’t use the Facebook comment system). So why shouldn’t you do…
Read more »Drupalcamp Leuven 2013
A post for the Belgians… Drupalcamp 2013 is about to take place this weekend (september 14+15) in Leuven. The whole event is free, however you have to register and buying…
Read more »Laravel 4: pivot table example (attach and detach)
What’s a pivot table? A pivot table is a database table that only exists to serve a many-to-many relationship. Say you have a table “customer” and a table “drinks”. If…
Read more »Laravel Naming Conventions
Laravel supports the PHP Framework Interop Group naming conventions. You can find them on the PHP-FIG website. In short: Generally database columns are snake_case but property names are camelCase. Eloquent…
Read more »The jQuery and Javascript code snippets you should learn by heart
While jQuery is a great improvement on classic Javascript, it’s still not perfect. What works in version 1.3 doesn’t automatically work in 1.7 and what works in Firefox, doesn’t automatically…
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