We’ve all got stacks of legacy code that has a huge amount of business logic locked away full of those pesky do loops with their setll’s and reads followed by endless hops off to do some chain statements grabbing all the accompanying supporting data. Well...
ctime is a good way to get the date narratives day name and month name in short form eg Sun Mar 27 15:39:23 2022. This UNIX api returns the names abbreviated to the first 3 characters eg Sun, Mon Tue and Jan, Feb, Mar etc. If the current time is required then using...
When interfacing data between different entities the JSON or JavaScript Object Notation format is often used because it creates a smaller payload than some other data interchange formats and can be faster to process. JSON stores data in arrays or associative arrays of...
How to change phpMyAdmin to utilise a domain socket when conecting to MariaDB on the IBM i We use phpMyAdmin to do some important database adminstration on our MySQL databases. phpMyAdmin comes as a free piece of software developed using PHP. The software allows us to...
How to add autocomplete functionality to an HTML input field to aid selection and permit effortless form field pre-population on the IBM i When presenting users with an HTML form to be filled in it can be helpful to present the user with an autocomplete list of...
How to call and debug a stored procedure from PHP, the free Community version, with PDO ODBC installed using Yum via Access Client Solutions (ACS) on the IBM i Now that we have the opportunity to run the free Community edition of PHP on the IBM i in part courtesy of...
Using Bootstrap and Datatables on IBM i with ajax auto-refresh Do you have a requirement to display a table with data that needs to be refreshed regularly and automaticlly on the IBM i? In the following blog we will highlight example code showing how to populate a...
Using argon2id as part of a 2FA (2 Factor Authentication) process on the IBM i In the following blog we will highlight example code showing how to perform password hashing using argon2id. This is part of a multipart article outlining a complete example web app on the...
Sending texts as part of a 2FA (2 Factor Authentication) process on the IBM i In the following article we will highlight example code showing how to text directly from the IBM i using just a cellular modem, an asynchronous communication line, an ICF file and all the...
Creating QR codes and emailing them in a pdf as an attachment from the IBM i QR codes are very much in the news at the moment. QR codes are basically 2D barcodes but with the ability to contain a greater amount of information that can be read much faster and more...
