Run PHP7.0.0alpha1 on Wamp Server

12. June 2015 Blog 4
I wanted to test out the new php7.0 alpha release in my local environment. I currently am running Windows 8.1 with Wamp Server installed. Wamp Server obviously doesn’t have a version to download yet with php7 so I figured I would try to get it to work myself. Here are the steps I took to ...

Laravel 5 / Lumen Code Generator

18. May 2015 Blog 0
So when I first started using MVC frameworks in PHP the first framework I really dove into was Yii. One of the coolest things about Yii is they have a code generator called Gii. Gii would look at your database and create Models, Controllers, and even Views for basic CRUD automatically. Laravel has something similar ...

First Data Global Gateway e4 – PHP API Code

30. December 2014 Blog 19
Recently I was working with someone who decided to use First Data as their payment processor. I like First Data and normally highly recommend them to people looking for credit card processing. However, in the past everyone I have worked with used a different payment gateway like Authorize.net so I have never worked with First ...

Amazon EC2 IP Detector for Python

20. November 2014 Blog 0
The other day I need to be able to detect if an IP address was an Amazon EC2 IP address for a project I was working on. I couldn’t find any code but I did find this: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=1701 Which is a list of all the ip ranges for Amazon EC2 servers. So first a wrote a ...