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What are the top Angular 19 CLI commands I should memorize for daily use?

Aaron Belchamber — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 10:15:43 +0000

Here are the top Angular 19 CLI commands every developer should know since you will likely use them every day. Click here to get your free Angular 19 Cheat Sheet & Study Guide! Tip:Use the –help flag with any command for options and details, e.g. These commands will cover almost all routine operations—project setup, development, […]

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Converting .png and .jpg Images to .webp Can Improve Your Site Performance with This Free PHP Script

Aaron Belchamber — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 09:38:13 +0000

Converting .png and .jpg Images to .webp Can Improve Your Site Performance with This Free PHP Script

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Why do we have school teachers enter numbers at car line pickup when robots can do it?

Aaron Belchamber — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 17:32:44 +0000

Here’s a practical application that can help schools with parent pickup and reduce unpleasant tasks and time burdening school staff. It really doesn't involve AI in its operational state, but to speed up the development of this prototype I did use some AI to create a free solution.

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Rendering Twig templates from Symfony Repository without Using Dependency Injection (DIC)

Aaron Belchamber — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 17:25:09 +0000

Sometimes it’s useful to access Twig templates from a Symfony repository, one could argue that this goes against a repository’s role, but if you think of Twig template files or Twig strings perhaps grabbed from a database as data, then this coincides nicely with the function of a repo. These arguments aside, whatever your situation, […]

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Symfony: Re-authenticate FOS user automatically without making users log back in

Aaron Belchamber — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 17:25:05 +0000

Integrating a WordPress user login with Symfony is pretty painless if you need to share user sessions. Just don’t rely solely on that WordPress cookie, but cross reference a randomly assigned hash that can reference back to the WordPress user’s table. When you get your system to authenticate a user and you find your FOS […]

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PHP: Checking if a form was posted with “REQUEST_METHOD” server global

Aaron Belchamber — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 16:19:56 +0000

Something so simple, let’s say even in a framework like Symfony which I use all the time you want to just check to see if the incoming request was initiated by an actual form post. Here’s the best way to check: I implement this switch in a lot of handlers where I deploy API clients […]

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Javascript: A simple way when validating forms to ensure at least one checkbox is checked

Aaron Belchamber — Sun, 27 Dec 2015 16:13:17 +0000

Check so at least one checkbox on your form is checked before it’s allowed to submit: $("#main_form").on('submit',function(e){ if ( $("input[type='checkbox']:checked").length > 0) { } else { e.preventDefault(); alert("Please check at least one list you wish to be included in."); return false; } return true; });

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General API interface with CURL: A simple way to access most APIs — use as is or extend as necessary

Aaron Belchamber — Sat, 26 Dec 2015 15:43:53 +0000

Since you likely interface with a lot of external APIs, there’s no need to keep rewriting the same tool. Just copy this and use the “apiBaseController” class as you need it. It’s a good, clean way to start any API accessing project! <?php /** * Class apiBaseController * * Any access of APIs outside of […]

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Symfony Twig: Accessing global values reference

Aaron Belchamber — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 16:43:00 +0000

Here is a reference list to access global values within Twig: For $_POST variables use this : {{ app.request.parameter.get("page") }} For $_GET variables use this : {{ app.request.query.get("page") }} For $_COOKIE variables use this : {{ app.request.cookies.get("page") }} For $_SESSION variables use this : {{ app.request.session.get("page") }} For more Symfony Twig shortcuts, view the Twig […]

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PHP Developers: Pre-made state pulldown lists for HTML forms

Aaron Belchamber — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 15:15:11 +0000

I like to reuse code as much as possible and if there’s underyling data in something I’ll use again, I’ll put that data in some extractable form in an EAV (Entity, Attribute, Value) database table so I don’t need to maintain the data anywhere except one place. So in the example below where the variable […]

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