4 Nov 2026
Send Email from PHP Without Composer: Gmail SMTP in 60 Lines
Sending an email from PHP without Composer sounds like it needs a library, but SMTP is a short…
4 Nov 2026
29 Oct 2026
json_decode Returns NULL in PHP? 8 Causes I Tested and How to Fix Each
Your code looks right, the file is there, and json_decode() still gives you null. It does that for…
21 Oct 2026
PHP2Shell Fix on Plesk: How to Check Every Site Is Really Patched
PHP released fixes today for two critical bugs, both scored 9.2 out of 10, and Cloudflare is already…
21 Oct 2026
Cron Alert Spamming You? How to Make It Email Once
My stream monitor checks a URL every 15 minutes from cron. That’s 96 checks a day, so if…
16 Oct 2026
Cron Job Works by Hand but Not from Cron? 5 Causes I Tested
You run the script by hand and it works perfectly. You put the very same command in crontab,…
13 Oct 2026
Claude Code Tips From Its Creator, and Which Ones Actually Hold Up
Claude Code is Anthropic’s coding assistant that runs in your terminal, and I’ve been reading a transcript of…
10 Oct 2026
How to Stop a PHP Cron Job Running Twice at Once
How to stop overlapping PHP cron jobs using flock, in the script or in the crontab, tested with…
7 Oct 2026
Instagram Access Token Expiring? How to Check and Refresh It from Cron
How to check what kind of Instagram access token you have, whether it expires, and how to refresh…
4 Oct 2026
How to Add Clickable Links, Hashtags and Mentions to Bluesky Posts in PHP
How to make links, hashtags and mentions work in Bluesky posts from PHP, including the UTF-8 byte offset…
1 Nov 2025
How to Integrate Third-Party APIs with PHP: Practical Examples & Automation
A small cURL function for PHP API calls with timeouts, retries on 429 and 5xx errors, file caching…
14 Oct 2025
How to Read and Write JSON Files in PHP (With Code Examples)
How to read, write and safely update a JSON file in PHP, with the empty-file, BOM and file-locking…