WordPress is the best platform you can choose if you want to easily build your website. Due to its increased popularity, there are many professional pre-designed themes you can choose from, to start creating your website. These templates include multiple features, but if you need something, in particular, there is always a plugin that can […] The post 20 Best Utilities Plugins for Your WordPress Site appeared first on Line25.

Offering quality courses and onboarding the best teachers might get you the eyeballs. But, to sustain and grow your eLearning business in the long run – you need to know exactly how your students are performing and engaging with your courses, at all times. And, since the evaluation is online – tracking student participation in […] The post The Importance of Student Reports in Online Learning appeared first on WisdmLabs.

Design patterns. An almost mythical phrase that often inspires either awe or resentment. As designers, we tend to think of design patterns as generic off-the-shelf solutions that can be applied to various contexts almost mechanically, often without proper consideration. Navigation? Off-canvas! Deals of the day? Carousel! You get the idea. Sometimes we use these patterns without even thinking about them, and there is a good reason for it: Coming up with a brand new solution every time we encounter an interface problem is time-consuming and risky, because we just don't know how much time will be needed to implement a new solution and whether it will gracefully succeed or miserably fail in usability tests.The post Designing The Perfect Accordion appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:TutsPlus.com: How to Register & Use Laravel Service Providers SitePoint PHP Blog: How to Write JavaScript-Style Test Watchers in PHP Jakub Zalas: Static analysis tools for PHP in a single docker image ThePHP.cc: Why Developers Should Not Code Sammy Kaye Powers: Writing tests for PHP source (Series) Matt Stauffer: What packages do you install on every Laravel application you create? Hackermoon.com: Why you should learn Symfony in 2017 Tomas Votruba: The Bulletproof Event Naming For Symfony Event Dispatcher Laravel News: Bouncer: a Laravel Package for Role and Ability Authorization BitExpert Blog: Mattermost Webhooks and PHP Laravel News: Two Best Laravel Packages to Manage Roles/Permissions Scotch.io: Achieving Geo-search with Laravel Scout and Algolia Freek Van der Herten: Optimize images in Laravel apps Laravel News: The Road To Laracon Soundtrack Laravel News: Laravel 5.5 Custom Validation Rule Objects PHP.net: PHP 7.2.0 Beta 1 Released Paul Jones: Domain Logic and Email Templates Ben Ramsey: Announcing Testfest 2017 SitePoint PHP Blog: Re-Introducing Eloquent's Polymorphic Relationships php[architect]: Education Station: Simple, Compact Time Range Creation with Period

Latest PECL Releases:SeasLog 2.0.2 - Fixed issue #175 support trace_performance automatic logging. Fixed %C in log template, support Class::Action. decimal 1.3.0 - Fixed sqrt of -INF returning -INF rather than NAN. #13 - Disable opcache pass 2 due to numeric string to float casts. Thanks @krakjoe ast 1.0.1 - Fix compatibility with (currenty) PHP 7.4 and PHP 8.0. - Support BINARY_COALESCE as a flag of AST_ASSIGN_OP for the `??=` operator added in PHP 7.4. - Add AST version 70 (experimental): - Version 70 adds AST_PROP_GROUP with type information for property groups. - Version 70 adds AST_CLASS_NAME for `Foo::class`. Previously this used AST_CLASS_CONST decimal 1.2.0 - Change signum of NAN returning 1, now throws RuntimeException. #10 - Change toInt of NAN and INF returning 0, now throws RuntimeException. #11 - Fix pthreads incompatibility (properly). #12 igbinary 3.0.0a1 * Drop support for PHP 5. * Drop support for APC (APC was only available for PHP5 - It is the predecessor of APCu) * Emit a warning and return null if igbinary_unserialize() is passed more data to unserialize than expected. * Fix compilation against PHP 7.4-dev. Igbinary does NOT yet properly serialize/unserialize all classes with PHP 7.4-dev's typed properties. * The serialization format is exactly the same as igbinary 2.x APCu 5.1.17 - Fixed compatibility with PHP 7.4 and PHP 8.0. decimal 1.1.2 Fix incompatibility with pthreads. #12 @krakjoe uopz 6.0.1 - Add "uopz.exit" configuration option, to allow the execution of exit opcodes or not (default=0 to keep current behavior) - Improve opcache optimizer compatibility - Display ini settings in module info

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On the CodeWall.co.uk site there's a new tutorial showing you how to use Eloquent outside of Laravel applications thanks to its "capsule" functionality. Eloquent is an ORM layer that's a part of the Laravel framework and makes it easier to work with records and sets of data from your database. OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) is a project that notes down the current threats to a web application. And I have been researching on their site and I have found this similarity in their 2010, 2013 and 2017 report that, SQL Injection or any other type of Injection is number 1 on this list, every time. And that's a part to worry. This can cause you to get out of business, so this is pretty serious and your organisation should take care of the this issues and prevent yourself from it. The tutorial starts with a brief introduction of what SQL injection is including some example SQL to show how the injection happens. It then covers how to prevent this issue with base PHP code (no framework or package) using prepared statements and bound parameters. Eloquent takes care of this for you and provides a lot of other handy features. The article goes on to show: how to install the Eloquent packages with Composer the code to create the "capsule" that's used as a bridge into the Eloquent code the creation of migrations for two tables: users and posts how to make models for these two tables The post wraps up with a look at using these models to create a new user and post record using the ORM interface rather than manual SQL statements.

Email marketing should be one of the key components of your customer retention strategy. Engaging in regular communication will keep subscribers informed about your latest news and promotions. So it's... The post 10 WordPress Plugins for Email Marketing Management appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

Typography can make all the difference. However, if your project has to get along on a very limited budget and you need to rely on free fonts, good ones are never easy to find. Luckily, we stumbled across some real gems lately. The following fonts can be downloaded for free and are bound to give your project -- both private and/or commercial -- a classy finishing touch.The post Free Fonts With Personality appeared first on Smashing Magazine.