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Replace Funky Characters While Importing CSV
Sometimes uploaded text/csv file may have non-utf8 or other funky characters using the function below. public static function processUploadedBundles($request) { $content = file_get_contents($request->file(‘uploadedFile’)->getRealPath()); $lines = explode(PHP_EOL, $content); $array = []; foreach ($lines as $line) { $arrayCsv = str_getcsv($line, “,”); $arrayCsv = array_map(function($value){ return preg_replace(‘/[\x00-\x1F\x7F-\xFF]/’, ”, $value); }, $arrayCsv); $array[] = $arrayCsv; } return $array; }…
Upload to FTP with PHP
$fp = fopen(‘https://www.example.com/pdfdoc’, ‘r’); $user = “sammy”; $pass = “password”; $ftp_server = “192.168.10.10”; //should be wrapped in try catch to properly handle errors $ftp_conn = ftp_ssl_connect($ftp_server); $login = ftp_login($ftp_conn, $user, $pass); ftp_chdir($ftp_conn, ‘path/to/folder’); //can also use ftp_pwd ftp_pasv($ftp_conn, true); //passive mode ftp_fput($ftp_conn, “mydocument.pdf”, $fp, FTP_BINARY); fclose($fp); ftp_close($ftp_conn); Above code can be used to upload a…
Running Artisan Command as a Separate PHP Process in Laravel
In Laravel framework you can create commands and call them from php application. One command can call another command, and another command, and so on. But if an exception is thrown in one of the commands in this chain the whole chain breaks. In order to avoid this problem and run each artisan command as…
Exporting Records with Timezone Adjustments
As a rule, dates in a database are stored in UTC. So, when you export records from database constrained by dates, it is a good idea to use appropriate timezone in export query. You can do it in one of two ways. One way is create incoming dates in user’s timezone, then covert time to…
Laravel WebSockets as a Service
Recently Beyondcode came out with a web sockets package for Laravel. For my mailroom project I decided to add push notifications when a service receives a webhook. This a great use case for Laravel WebSockets package. In this article we will take a look at how to install it as a service using Docker and use…