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For many websites, advertisements could mean a substantial source of revenue. Hence, making it appealing, clickable and unobtrusive is an essential base requirement. Lets see how you could easily setup ad rotation on your website with the use of a standalone javascript library Ad-rotator. Ad Rotation in pure javascript We made a small list of requirements of what we’d expect from an ideal Ad-rotator. These basic requirements were to – …read more
In this guide, we will walk you through the steps of how to handle file uploads with API platform and Symfony. The official documentation on file uploads seems a bit convoluted to me and hence this article hopes to make it easy (in layman’s terms)! To many, handling File upload may seem tricky, but is really not difficult at all. If you are new to the API platform, it is …read more
Sometimes, you might want to encrypt your data stored in the LocalStorage given that it is easily readable by anyone having sufficient knowledge on where to look. Lets see how we can encrypt localstorage data with ease. Instead of reinventing the wheel, we are going to use a localStorage wrapper that takes care of checking browser support, supports storing more than just strings in the localStorage and most importantly supports …read more
One of the basic building blocks of a project is to have a nice resilient API. In this guide, we will show you how you could setup a fully functional REST API with Symfony and API platform which conforms to the Open API specification. As a bonus, you will also get auto-generated documentation via Swagger. Lets jump to see what exactly we need to get started… Rest API with Symfony …read more
For a website, sending email is usually one of the primary things needed yet many-a-times is not a trivial task. Lets see how to send email programmatically from your domain with ease and moreover for free! Works with both – shared hosting as well as private hosting (VPS). So what is it that’s needed to send/receive emails from your own domain ? The answer is an SMTP server which is …read more
Building a smart search that’s fast, autocompletes your queries and displays suggestions is something that everyone would love on their website. Today you will be introduced to a sleek, lightweight and most importantly, a standalone autocomplete library – typeahead-standalone.js. Why typeahead standalone ? Before answering that, know that typeahead-standalone is heavily inspired from the famous twitter typeahead library. Although it is a fantastic library (we even recommended it back in …read more
Been a user of Phpstorm/webstorm since long and wish to migrate to VS Code ? Skeptical about changing your IDE or the changes that it might bring along ? Fear not, for we will show you how you could setup VS code to be identical to Phpstorm/webstorm. Why should you migrate to VS Code ? I love using Webstorm/Phpstorm and it has been the editor of my choice since several …read more
Learn how to duplicate a mysql database in 2 simple steps. Many a times, you want to duplicate a database to create a backup, to test against real data or just because you want to. Lets quickly checkout how this can be done step-wise. We will be using the command line utility to duplicate the database. Duplicate a Mysql database – Assumptions Lets assume that the database you wish to …read more
Webpack analyzer bundle helps you to visualize the output of webpack in an interactive map. It displays the size that each bundle uses before and after being minified and compressed (gzipped). This can help you to discover which bundles are huge and if any of the bundles got in by mistake. Lets check this out by installing the bundle first. 1. Installing Webpack Analyzer Bundle The easiest way to have …read more
Configuring JWT Authentication with Symfony can be quite tricky, especially for beginners. We’ll guide you through a step-by-step tutorial getting you up to speed. We use LexikJWTAuthenticationBundle to setup JWT Auth in less than 10 mins. Our setup for JWT Authentication with Symfony Symfony 3.x, 4.x, 5.x FosUserBundle (you may use any other user provider as well) LexikJWTAuthenticationBundle (used to setup JWT authentication) If you are very new to JWT(JSON …read more
