Exporting/Importing MySQL database from/to Remote Server

When consuming 3d party API, you may want to do two things: In this article we will look at how to implement the above features using Guzzle, a popular PHP library for making API calls. Let us scaffold our app composer init composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle:~6.0 composer require monolog/monolog composer require –dev phpunit/phpunit:^8 We will be…

$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…

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; }…