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How is Windows 11 Apache php 8 Apache manual setup different from the php 7 on windows 10
I have read previous post on the setup of Apache php MySQL manual installation and the all seems to follow the same steps. Please what would be the constant k in all the different different versions ...
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Is there a way to set up Xdebug on Windows without submitting that form with your phpinfo() dump?
On https://xdebug.org/docs/install , in the Windows section, it says:
Follow these instructions to get Xdebug installed.
This leads to: https://xdebug.org/wizard , which only has a textfield and ...
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Error while switching to php-5.5.17 with laragon
I am trying to configure php-5.5.17 downloaded from https://www.php.net/distributions/php-5.5.17.tar.bz2
unzipped in laragon/bin/php and switched from laragon menu to php-5.5.17.
Getting this error:
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How to "intelligently" delete backup files based on their creation time?
Every >= 24 hours, my system makes a full backup of the (PostgreSQL) database and puts the resulting file into a dir of files such as:
MyLifeDatabase 2022-12-01 12;00;00.pg_dump
MyLifeDatabase 2022-...
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How do I setup GRAV (a PHP application) on portable Apache?
I'm trying out some personal Wiki systems for my Windows 10 computer that uses plain Markdown files, and came across GRAV. That is an Open Source CMS using Extract-and-drop setup most any web server ...
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Uninstalling PHP 8.0 that was installed through Web Platform Installer
I am trying to uninstall PHP 8.0 (x64) on a windows server 2022 machine. I have tried all methods available but WPI still detects it as installed.
What I have tried so far :
Deleting the folders ...
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cURL error 60 in Symfonycasts tutorial
In Symfonycasts "API Platform: Serious RESTful APIs" Chapter 6 there is the cURL command curl -X GET "https://localhost:8000/api" -H "accept: application/ld+json". ...
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Is there some way that my PHP CLI scripts could possibly detect that the Windows machine is about to be rebooted/shut down?
I have an advanced, ever-running system of PHP CLI scripts running which do all kinds of work, and communicate with my local PostgreSQL database. Windows 10.
I never use the start menu to shut down or ...
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What is the relation between php.exe, php-win.exe and cmd.exe on Windows?
For all my years running PHP CLI on Windows, I have started my scripts with .bat files like this:
php test.php
php resolves to C:\PHP\php.exe due to my PATH.
No problems with this. Except they always ...
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Is it possible to create a single EXE of my system?
I have made an advanced and complex library/framework in PHP. Currently, if I wanted to put this on a new computer, I would have to perform (in broad terms) these manual steps:
Install PHP CLI.
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How to copy text with font information as well?
I wonder, how to copying text with font information? Copying any text from the website below and paste to any document have the exact font style! What is the mechanism behind it?
https://coolfont....
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Is it logically possible for a CLI PHP script to update PHP (itself) while running? (On Windows.)
I run Windows 10. On it, I constantly run CLI PHP scripts. My PHP installation dir is C:\PHP.
Whenever there is a new version of PHP (stable branch), my scripts detect this, download the new ZIP file ...
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What exactly does the binary "deplister.exe" do in C:\PHP?
The Windows version of PHP has a file called "deplister.exe" in it. When I run it, it outputs nothing at all, and it doesn't respond to "-h" or anything.
What exactly is the purpose of this file? I'...
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Why does start command in cmd windows10 put another start in the newly opened window with php?
What I was trying to do is, I want to run a local php server and then open http://localhost:8000 in chrome. I made a bat file in my windows 10 OS for this. Here's my first attempt:
php -S localhost:...
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Is there some way to bring a command prompt/terminal "to the front" (focus) from PHP CLI?
I often launch "background scripts" from my PHP CLI scripts. That is, a cmd.exe window starting minimized (grouped).
However, I sometimes want to programmatically "bring it to the front", for example ...