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Debian 9 Stretch RC3 Dedicated Web Server Setup Step by Step. Time for PHP7 and MariaDB

Post author:Christos Pontikis
Post published:April 23, 2017
Post category:Linux Desktop
Reading time:56 mins read

Debian 9 (Stretch) release candidate 3 (RC3) is available since April 10th, 2017. Debian 9 RC3 is still a "testing" release (not recommended for production servers). Which is the release…

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How To Setup And Configure PhpStorm on Ubuntu

Post author:Christos Pontikis
Post published:January 12, 2017
Post category:Linux Desktop
Reading time:30 mins read

PhpStorm is my favorite PHP IDE. It is a commercial Java application from Jetbrains. It combines performance with a great interface and an excellent Git integration. Very good documentation and…

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Debian 8 Jessie Dedicated Web Server Setup Step by Step

Post author:Christos Pontikis
Post published:August 23, 2015
Post category:Linux Administration
Reading time:36 mins read

Debian 8.0 Jessie was initially released on April 26th, 2015. Jessie is powered by Linux kernel 3.16. Jessie ships with a new default init system, systemd. The sysvinit init system…

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Sanitize User Input Text with PHP

Post author:Christos Pontikis
Post published:April 12, 2015
Post category:Web Development
Reading time:2 mins read

When you prompt user to input text (e.g. username, lastname etc), you may use Regular expressions to sanitize User Input, for example: allow space, any unicode letter if(preg_match("/[^40pL]/u", $term)) {…

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Get basename and file extension with PHP or Javascript

Post author:Christos Pontikis
Post published:August 6, 2014
Post category:Web Development
Reading time:4 mins read

Getting file extension and basename is a common development task. PHP internal function pathinfo is very useful. But, Windows paths will not work correctly on Linux servers and vice versa.…