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7 min readTo create a PDF with Codeigniter, you can use a library called TCPDF. First, you need to download the TCPDF library and add it to your Codeigniter project. Then, you can create a new controller and load the TCPDF library in the constructor function.Next, you can create a function in the controller that will generate the PDF file. In this function, you can set the PDF title, author, and other properties.
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5 min readIn Laravel, you can manually close a connection early by using the disconnect method provided by the database manager. This method allows you to close the database connection before the end of the script execution, which can be useful in certain situations where the connection is no longer needed.To close a connection early in Laravel, you can call the disconnect method on the database manager instance, passing in the connection name as a parameter.
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6 min readTo send a reset password link with CodeIgniter, you can follow these steps:First, you need to create a form for users to enter their email address.In your controller, validate the email address provided by the user.Generate a unique token/code for the user and store it in the database along with their email address.Create a link with the token/code and send it to the user's email address.
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4 min readTo remove 'public' from the Laravel URL, you need to create a new virtual host configuration for your Laravel project. This involves pointing the DocumentRoot of the virtual host to the 'public' directory of your Laravel project. Additionally, you may need to update the .htaccess file in the 'public' directory to handle URL rewriting.After setting up the virtual host and updating the .
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4 min readTo remove the method name from the URL in Codeigniter, you can achieve this by using routes in the routes.php configuration file of your Codeigniter application.You can create a custom route that maps a specific URL pattern to a controller and method without explicitly including the method name in the URL. By doing so, you can hide the method name from the URL and provide a cleaner URL structure for your application.For example, you can create a route that maps the URL example.
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8 min readTo remove duplicate rows from an Excel import in Laravel, you can use the distinct() method provided by Laravel's Eloquent ORM. After importing the Excel data into a collection, you can call distinct() on the collection to remove any duplicate rows based on all columns. This will give you a unique set of rows without duplicates. You can then further manipulate or save this data as needed in your Laravel application.
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4 min readTo create a global variable in CodeIgniter, you can use the $this->load->vars() method in your controller. This method allows you to set variables that will be available globally throughout your application. Simply pass an associative array of variable names and their values to the $this->load->vars() method in your controller method, and the variables will be accessible in your views. This can be useful for storing data that needs to be accessed across multiple views or controllers.
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5 min readIn Laravel, you can define a global variable by using the config function. This function allows you to define a configuration value that can be accessed from anywhere in your application. To define a global variable, you can add a new key-value pair to the configuration array in the config directory.For example, to define a global variable called app_name, you can add the following line to the config/app.
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7 min readIn CodeIgniter, performing a large batch insert can be achieved using the insert_batch() method provided by the database class. This method allows you to insert multiple records in a single query, which can greatly improve performance when dealing with a large number of records.To do a large batch insert in CodeIgniter, you first need to prepare an array of data where each element represents a row to be inserted into the database.
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4 min readTo pass an input value into a controller in Laravel, you can use the Request object. Within your controller method, you can access the input value using the request() helper function or by type-hinting the Request object in the method signature.
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6 min readIn CodeIgniter, you can create a JSON response status by using the built-in functions provided by the framework. You can create an array with the data you want to send as JSON, and then use the $this->output->set_content_type('application/json') method to set the content type of the response to JSON. Finally, you can use the json_encode() function to encode the data array into JSON format, and then use the echo statement to output the JSON response.