Why is it that banks are always 5 years behind when it comes to the internet?
For those not in ‘the know’, a ‘webhook’ is where you define a url ( or address ) you would like to be notified when certain things happen on a website you use.
As an example, you tell PayPal to notify your payment confirm url when your business account receives a payment. They then send the payment details to that url so an automated script can do something with them. Usually tell you to send the item they bought.
When you try and use cookies in php, you can’t use dots / periods [.] in the names. So this won’t work:
$var = $_COOKIE['cookie.name.with.dots'];You can set them with dots using Javascript, but when you go to access them, the dots magically become underscores [ _ ]
Occasionally working with SQL databases (not my beloved MySQL) I always struggled getting the number of rows in a consistant manner.
Until now…
Sending (or piping) emails to a php script would allows a whole world of fun. I had a spare 30 minutes the other night so I sat down, read a few blog posts and forums and set up emails to pipe to a php script.
I was pulling my hair out this morning because although a css file I was loading was offering it’s contents immediately, the file didn’t complete loading to the browser for another 10+ seconds on each refresh.