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PHP FIX Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function curl_init()

Caused by Missing Curl Extention. sudo apt-get install php-curl restart nginx sudo service nginx restart    

1:01 am, August 25, 2025
linux
Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mb_strlen()

this wasted an hour!!! grr sudo apt install php7.4-mbstring causes an error for php lite admin where it just displays blank  

4:03 am, August 24, 2025
minecraft
linux
list all network connections linux

list all of the network connections netstat -a list a summary of the connections ss --summary list connections with count netstat -an|grep ESTABLISHED  

7:51 am, June 25, 2025
blocking
blocking all ips in a range

block all ips in a range // The IP prefixes you want to block. Add a dot at the end.$ip_block = ['47.79.']; foreach ($ip_block as $ip_block_val) {  // Check if the user's IP address begins ..

7:50 am, June 25, 2025
javascript
reload window automatically with javascript

script to reload the window automatically the same as pressing the reload button on the browser so there may still be cache issues when reloading this you can change the 5000 to another value to chan..

5:02 am, January 31, 2025
html
snowflakes falling body effects

12:59 am, December 10, 2024
windows
disable recall on windows 11

Apparently this can recall what you type??...  Open up the Terminal (as Admin) and type in this command  WIN+X Dism /Online /Get-Featureinfo /Featurename:Recall

10:46 pm, October 15, 2024
linux
show all connections on linux command line

the ss command will show all connections

4:09 am, June 28, 2024
SQLite
How To Install SQLite on Ubuntu 20.04

  Bash sudo apt install sqlite3 and to get it working with php, pick your version of php and change the following Bash sudo apt-get install php7.4-sqlite3

7:36 am, June 14, 2023
php
Deprecated: parse_str(): Calling parse_str() without the result argument is deprecated

I had this error on a function that i was not even sure i was calling. This was on some old code i was testing for an old site, i must have fixed this error on a never version of the function.  ..

6:39 am, April 11, 2023
image formatting
can you set all image heights to match with css no stretching

Short Answer: Yes with object-fit: cover; on the css of the image properties.  object-fit: cover; You might also need:  object-position: right bottom; ..

4:32 am, November 9, 2022
fancybox
fancybox v3.4 - Mixed gallery

5:19 am, October 25, 2022
fonts
Proxima Nova Font alternative on google fonts Figtree Embed and Quick Install Code

According to a recent google search by me the font Figtree is the closest one to the Adobe Font Proxima Nova, so lets do a quick install code for it and test if its actually the same.  All Style..

3:33 am, October 12, 2022
sections
four box responsive section with all classes find and replace boxsection title foundation grid (4 box)

four box responsive grid, find and replace the word... boxsection with your new section name to generate all class names and section names to match for rapid section creation. Demo Codepen

12:29 am, September 27, 2022
cookies
cookie consent quick install script js html css vanilla

Found this super slick looking cookie consent script here, looks awesome, and its easy to install (i hope). https://github.com/orestbida/cookieconsent  CDN Links https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/or..

12:19 am, September 20, 2022
fonts
font quick embed inter all styles google font

For some reason every time I go into google fonts website it seems to get more and more complex, i dont really care too much about all the font details i just want the embed link! Anyway... Maybe im g..

4:58 am, September 19, 2022
sections
two box responsive section with all classes find and replace boxsection title foundation grid (2 box)

easy copy and paste section and find replace the word boxsection with your new class names, using foundation grid.

7:01 am, September 9, 2022
php functions
php strip non numbers from string - remove all non-numeric characters from a string

this will remove all non alpha numeric numbers from a string. in this example it returns: 123456 from $1234.56x  

1:00 pm, August 24, 2022
fonts
Quicksand font quick install

Quicksand font quick install. Note: use the @include in css or the html link to the font only, not both. 

1:25 am, June 3, 2022
linux
Install PHP without Apache on Ubuntu

I was actually about to do some coding and then i got distracted with this annoying error on vscode. I keep getting this error on vscode: I had been ignoring it, but i thought fine, ill fix it and..

12:30 am, June 1, 2022
css
truncate text with line clamp allow a certain number of lines

This shows how you can truncate text to a certain number of lines using the css property line-clamp.   -webkit-line-clamp: 3;  line-clamp:3;

1:32 am, May 4, 2022
git
git basics - git init, git commit, git all, git *

create a new repository git init the following code can be typed in a terminal window, once you have installed git for your OS. This will create a directory called git-test assuming you already hav..

3:23 am, April 22, 2022
fonts
font similar to century gothic questrial google font quick install

I found this font to be closely related to the paid font "Century Gothic" the only issue i found with this font is that it only comes in regular weight.  But Questrial is free to use, so that is..

4:32 am, April 4, 2022
fonts
Lato font quick install

a quick code to install the font Lato from google, includes the stylesheet and also the @import links, just pick one.

11:25 pm, March 28, 2022
php
No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.

add this to your php to allow requests from any source Access-Control-Allow-Origin php header

1:09 am, March 15, 2022
php
Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mb_convert_encoding()

I was getting this error when calling a function in the readability php class, on a new server for code that worked on the old server. Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mb_convert_encoding()..

11:45 am, February 15, 2022
php
fixing error Call to undefined function simplexml_load_string

usually the error "Call to undefined function simplexml_load_string" happens when the php xml library is missing from your server. You can install the xml php library with the following command, repl..

4:00 am, January 18, 2022
C
Hello world in C and seeing what it is actually doing

One of the most simple C applications, how to compile it and how to objdump it.  C #include int main() { int i; for(i=0;i < 10; i++) { puts("Hello Mac\n"); } return ..

12:25 pm, December 12, 2021
mac
install cmatrix on mac m1

For some reason i thought the mac would have apt or apt-get to install packages, but apparently not.  Here is how you can install cmatrix a matrix emulator or other unix type terminal apps on ma..

2:31 am, November 19, 2021
virtual box
allow internal networking connection from virtual box vm

This will allows you to access a shared folder on a Windows 10 Virtual box from Windows 11. Probably also works with other windows versions, but only tested with the host OS beinf windows 11 and the V..

2:26 am, November 8, 2021
php functions
list all array json function list_all_array_json

I wrote this a while ago, and i always forget the complex functions i write so ill add it here.  This loads all fields and then returns them as json. 

5:51 am, November 3, 2021
php
list_all_array an early stages of list all function that uses an array to pass in main variables

I think this is more neat than passing in individual variables into the list_all function, seems to work ok so far.  Still in early stages of this listing function, more needs to be built into i..

12:15 am, October 18, 2021
php
load array load all items from an array while in a sqlite load sql loop

i find this useful when loading a bunch of items in a class while looping through data, rather than assigning variables manually i just add the array of item names into the class to begin with and the..

8:36 am, October 7, 2021
javascript
gallery carousel center mode

i found this one here, looks cool. see if i can get it working like the demo.  currently getting this error on running the script i wonder if this is caused by a document ready issue? what is..

12:44 am, August 10, 2021
css
vertically align text within a fixed height div using flex

this can be used to make text align nicely while still keeping the same layout. the example below shows how you can set the height of the containing element and still have the text aligned center to ..

9:55 am, July 29, 2021
php
preg replace clean a string only allow a-zA-Z0-9 characters

allows only a-zA-Z0-9 and spaces

4:25 am, July 10, 2021
jquery
append a #link to the end of all href urls on a target

good for if you need to append target links with a # link

1:07 am, July 9, 2021
wordpress
fix for wordpress requesting ftp login details installing plugins

add this to wp config define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');

4:27 am, June 27, 2021
javascript
ajax callback to delete with sweet alert confirmation to make it cool! 😎

I recently wanted to to an ajax call back on a list of items just to make it easier to move around the place, rather than it reloading the page every time. So i thought why not also use sweet alert on..

4:29 am, June 11, 2021
php
show all methods or functions in a class (class function version)

add this to your class to show all its methods including this one... sorts the array ascending by values so should be sorted in a-z

4:32 am, May 13, 2021
php
show all methods (functions) in a class

this will show all available methods or functions within a class, once they are in a class they are called methods for some reason. print functions, show all functions, methods in a class, show met..

4:07 am, May 13, 2021
css
allow a title to be in the foreground while still having a before overlay for the background

i came across this issue recently, where a title was within an element and it needed to have a background overlay while still allowing the title to be on top of the overlay.  I found the fix was..

2:03 am, May 11, 2021
php
php list all the functions in a class

this should return in an array the methods or functions for a class

3:27 am, April 20, 2021
python
python Install Beautiful Soup

this allows you to install the Beautiful Soup library for python which is used for html parsing BASH python3 -m pip install beautifulsoup4 python3 -m pip show beautifulsoup4 if you get an error say..

1:38 am, April 4, 2021
linux
linux mount a drive manually

this is how you can mount a drive in linux first list the drives available with:  BASH sudo lsblk -o UUID,NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL,MODEL or this BASH sudo blkid ok once we have th..

4:24 am, March 12, 2021
javascript
check if a certain query string is set then apply it to all url's on the page

this script will check if a query string is already set, and if it matches it will append the same query string to all url's on the page Here is the test link with the field, and all url's on this pa..

8:22 am, March 1, 2021
javascript
append a query string to all url's on a page

this should append the query string test=1 to all url's on this page. if it works... make sure its added to document ready.

5:45 am, March 1, 2021
linux
installing exfat and ntfs drivers to enable reading of these filesystems

this will install the ntfs package on your linux system, allowing you to read and mount ntfs partitions on drives. NTFS 3G BASH sudo apt updatesudo apt install ntfs-3g This should give you the fol..

4:56 am, February 20, 2021
linux
linux list all drives and partitions

the following command will list all drives and partitions in your shell BASH sudo lsblk -o UUID,NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL,MODEL It should look something like this depending on your drive se..

4:50 am, February 20, 2021
linux
install atom editor on ubuntu

You can download atom from https://atom.io/ and run the .deb package or if you want to use apt you will need to add it as a repository. https://flight-manual.atom.io/getting-started/sections/installi..

11:42 pm, January 24, 2021
site bugs
install codemirror for textareas [added]

i think rather than editing all the code using just a plain textarea element it might be nice to have codemirror format them nicer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21085170/codemirror-how-to-insta..

8:24 am, January 22, 2021
javascript
how to install js socials for social media share buttons and make them rounded

This should be a nice quick one on how to install js socials which add social media sharing buttons on your pages.  Yeah i always just ignore these as well, but hey some people may use them?? H..

5:42 am, November 23, 2020
design elements
hero box with title sub title logos and call to action buttons

Here is a basic hero box section that contains: Title Sub Title 6 Logos (could replace with carousel logos) 2 call to action buttons I think it can be made more responsive, by replacing the..

2:43 am, November 9, 2020
php
generating all css colours with php?

I was looking at doing this just to generate all css colours, i think the only issue is there is a lot! You can do this with rgb(0,0,0) all the way up to rgb(255,255,255) how many seperate colours is..

12:13 am, September 25, 2020
linux
renew all SSL certificates with certbot

just issue the following command in bash

6:45 am, August 26, 2020
php
Fix for Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function file_get_dom() simplehtmldom simple_html_dom

This error is caused due to a function name change in the simple_html_dom.php library if you are using an older one and upgrading to the never version, you can see it in the change log here: https://s..

1:08 am, August 26, 2020
wordpress
wordpress show the parent page title with fallback to title

in wordpress either show the parent page title, or if it does not have a parent then show the page title. tags: get parent page title wordpress

1:03 am, May 18, 2020
javascript
using arrow functions to convert small functions into one line statement functions

in this exercise i will take a function variable and write it in one line using the arrow function

12:09 am, October 1, 2019
css
CSS Improve Compatibility with Browser Fallbacks

when using css variables to increase compatibility you should also include a normal color as a default.

2:04 am, July 9, 2019
php
remove all of an element in a string &lt;h1&gt;

good if you want to remove all of the instances of an element in a string like if you have a <h1> tag in your string and want to remove it you can use the following code. $additional = "some te..

6:25 am, August 31, 2018
php
convert all images into base64 encoded

if you have a bunch of html with inline image links this will convert them into base64 images inline. <?php $html = "my html string with multiple image tags..."; $dom = new DOMD..

6:20 am, August 31, 2018
php
preg_replace ereg_replace replace all chars

This will replace all characters that are not A-Z a-z 0-9 and - $uid = preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z0-9\-]/", '', $uid);

6:20 am, August 31, 2018
js
parallax js scroll testing

Update: the demo on this one seems a bit broken, i have to fix it! :) you can view a working demo here: https://codepen.io/kruxor/pen/PpGLRG This is one that i had a demo of on codepen, and then code..

6:20 am, August 31, 2018
js
using regex with replace to replace all instances of something in a string

so you have a string and you want to replace a recurring character, use this to do it: String Example: var string = "a-string-with-dashes.txt"; var string = "a-string-with-dashes.txt"; string..

6:20 am, August 31, 2018
js
find all elements add class jquery

this will grab all a elements, and dump them to the console. var allLinkElements = $( "a" ); console.log(allLinkElements); then we need to split into a jquery object, this is a jquery version of an..

6:20 am, August 31, 2018
js
stacktable jQuery plugin for stacking tables on small screens

stacktable.js The purpose of stacktable.js is to give you an easy way of converting wide tables to a format that will work better on small screens. It creates a copy of the table that is converted in..

6:20 am, August 31, 2018
html
make all links target new window

I was actually searching for a js way to do this, but i found this instead. Here is a really easy way to make all links target a _blank window. Just add this to your <head>. <base targ..

6:20 am, August 31, 2018
html
video embed full screen all screen sizes

Update: 29 July 2025 For some reason the code was in this post from 2018! but it was not working as a demo, which means i added it ages ago.. man 2018. time goes quick.  Ill see if this sti..

6:20 am, August 31, 2018
css
css grid sidebar main content fluid layout with fallback

this is a continuation from the original post with added fallback for older browsers that do no support the grid elements yet. I have tested this fallback in IE11 and it seems to work well, if you wa..

6:20 am, August 31, 2018
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