About MALIK SHAFI
Experienced PHP Developer with a strong background in building scalable web applications in the IT services sector. Proficient in PHP frameworks like Laravel and CodeIgniter, and front-end technologies, Skilled in MySQL database management, RESTful API integration, and working with AWS services such as EC2 and S3. Extensive hands-on experience with Nginx configuration on AWS EC2 instances, optimizing for performance and security.
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I’ve been there building a file upload feature in PHP, selecting a file, hitting upload, and boom “Sorry, there was an error uploading ...
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When I first started working with AJAX in jQuery, one of the most frustrating problems I faced was returning errors from PHP and showin...
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I’ve run into this problem more times than I’d like to admit: I’m happily building an AJAX feature, jQuery is supposed to parse JSON, a...
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I remember the first time I tried to send an iOS Push Notification using PHP. It looked simple enough just open a socket to Apple’s ser...
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I’ve run into this problem more times than I care to admit: I call file_get_contents() on a URL, something goes wrong with SSL, and PHP...
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I’ve been experimenting recently with Dockerized PHP applications, trying to move away from file based error logs and instead send ever...
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Recently, I was working on a game project where I needed to fetch quests from an XML database using PHP. Everything seemed to work fine...
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In one of my recent PHP based projects, I stumbled across a surprisingly frustrating issue while working with an AJAX widget. Everythin...
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How I broke it, what that cryptic error actually means, and the cleaner code I use today plus a few drills you can practice on your own...
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While refactoring my ancient PHP admin panel, a glaring “syntax error, unexpected end of file” popped up at the very last line an unmis...
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