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Start learning PHP — Useful resources for beginners and advanced

Start learning PHP — Useful resources for beginners and advanced! If you're wondering where to start from learning the PHP language or needing some more knowledge to deep dive into the language, you ...
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Common Mistakes to Avoid in PHP

A list of real issues most beginners encounter when using PHP.
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How do you move the function definition for the ->when() function in Laravel Eloquent Models?

so I'm building a way to organize Items based on different requests: $items = Item::query() ->where("type", $itemType) ->when($mode, function (Builder $query, $...
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Adding cover/album art during concatenating two mp3 audio files with ffmpeg using PHP shell command

I'm trying to join two mp3 using variables from file path and its working okay. now i want to add a cover art photo to the concatenated mp3 output("audio_output"). How can i do that? $shell =...
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Azure Table PHP Retrieve Latest Data First with Pagination

I am using this: https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-table-php to insert data to azure table. However, when I retrieve the data, I don’t get the latest entries unless I use a do...while loop, as ...
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How to install league/csv bundle with Doctrine v3.3 on Symfony?

I am having a problem today installing the league/csv bundle (v9.27) on my Symfony (v7.2) project with doctrine/orm (v3.3)! When I run command php require league/csv, I get this message: Your ...
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does database chunk() have a memory leak?

In laravel, I have a query that searches thousands of rows in a database, and I trying to compile that into a CSV file. In attempt to reduce memory usage, I get 500 rows at a time and output the CSV. ...

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