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Often times when coding in PHP, we have the need to turn an array into a comma separated string, or even an object into a comma separated string. As a Florida PHP Developer, I’d like to save you some time and show you the code.

Simple PHP array to comma separated string

$myArray = array(‘this’, ‘that’); $str = join(‘, ‘, $myArray); echo $str;

That’s the basic way of doing it. But what if you have an associated array?

Associated array to comma separated string

function to_string($data, $glue=’, ‘) { $output = ”; if(!empty($data) && count($data) > 0) { $values

Keeping software updated can be very time consuming because let’s face it, software runs our lives. Unless you’ve been living in the forest the past 20 years, you use software daily. As a Developer, I use phpMyAdmin, it’s my app of choice when managing databases because it runs smoothly, and it’s free. I love free, don’t you?

Now there comes a time in a Developer’s life when he/she needs to upgrade their phpMyAdmin installation. But since it’s one of those things that isn’t entirely “urgent” for the most part, security updates aside, we tend to put off upgrading until we

phpMyAdmin SSL – The “how to” you always wanted – but were too shy to admit to.

You should always use SSL with phpMyAdmin. Never leave a phpMyAdmin install insecure. Nowadays, you should secure phpMyAdmin with more than just SSL; like keeping phpMyAdmin SSL on its own private network. But that’s a different story entirely…

2 1/2 ways to force SSL with phpMyAdmin

1) Using Apache .htaccess (this can also be put in the httpd.conf if you don’t use .htaccess files):

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$ RewriteRule ^/phpmyadmin(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/phpmyadmin$1 [L,R]

or with nginx:

location /phpmyadmin { if ($ssl_protocol =