Do you run multiple WordPress sites and want to synchronize user activities? Do you want to share logins? E.g. when they log in to any one of your sites, do you want it so that they get logged in to other sites? Automatically? This is where Share Logins Pro came into the picture! So far,…
I have released Ncrypt, a 2-way encryption library for PHP. Using Ncrypt, you can encrypt a string and decrypt an encrypted string. Steps 1. Include the class 1.a. Option 1 (using Composer) Add the following to your composer.json file-
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{ "require": { "mukto90/ncrypt": "dev-master" } } |
Run composer install command. Include your autoloader file (if not already), like this-
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include 'vendor/autoload.php'; |
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So, you have heard a lot about Hook, haven’t you? There are hundreds of articles out there about hooks. What are hooks, how do they work, bla bla bla.. Do you REALLY understand what actually are hooks? If your answer is ‘Yes’, well, you can ignore this post. But, if your answer is ‘No’, then…
Error messages are nightmares to a programmer. Default error messages are annoying and looking ugly. And kind of security threat as well. You probably wish to show a custom message when an error occurred. And tried and failed? I had written this small code snippet for one of my projects and now wondering if this…
You often need an action link to activate or deactivate a plugin. How do you do that? I have written a simple function that can help you achieve this.
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<?php /** * Get activation or deactivation link of a plugin * * @author Nazmul Ahsan <mail@nazmulahsan.me> * @param string $plugin plugin file name * @param string $action action to perform. activate or deactivate * @return string $url action url */ function na_action_link( $plugin, $action = 'activate' ) { if ( strpos( $plugin, '/' ) ) { $plugin = str_replace( '\/', '%2F', $plugin ); } $url = sprintf( admin_url( 'plugins.php?action=' . $action . '&plugin=%s&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s' ), $plugin ); $_REQUEST['plugin'] = $plugin; $url = wp_nonce_url( $url, $action . '-plugin_' . $plugin ); return $url; } |
How to use? This function requires 2 parameters; first one is the plugin file name, and second one is action type. Plugin file name is…
As I’m a man of Open Source, I always try to give back to the community. I already had 15 plugins published in WordPress repository. And today, the 16th one just added in the list. Of course free and Open Source. Edit Next Post, the plugin you’ll always need Imagine when you have a lot…
A ‘Scroll to Top’ button can enhance usability of your website. There are several plugins available out there that can help you achieve this. You just need to install the plugin and activate it. Few days back, I’ve written a plugin that adds this feature to a WP site. Unlike other similar plugins, this one…
A beautiful and nicely crafted theme can change the look and feel of your WordPress site. But, what about the login page? Default login page is too ordinary to attract your visitors. Although this can be handled with a custom login page, but most of the themes does not include this feature. Here I’m going…
Update: I have released Ncrypt, a library (OOP based) that facilitates the same (two-way encryption and decryption). See here This function will provide you a two-way system to encrypt a string or decrypt an encrypted string.
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/** * Encrypt and decrypt * * @author Nazmul Ahsan <n.mukto@gmail.com> * @link http://nazmulahsan.me/simple-two-way-function-encrypt-decrypt-string/ * * @param string $string string to be encrypted/decrypted * @param string $action what to do with this? e for encrypt, d for decrypt */ function my_simple_crypt( $string, $action = 'e' ) { // you may change these values to your own $secret_key = 'my_simple_secret_key'; $secret_iv = 'my_simple_secret_iv'; $output = false; $encrypt_method = "AES-256-CBC"; $key = hash( 'sha256', $secret_key ); $iv = substr( hash( 'sha256', $secret_iv ), 0, 16 ); if( $action == 'e' ) { $output = base64_encode( openssl_encrypt( $string, $encrypt_method, $key, 0, $iv ) ); } else if( $action == 'd' ){ $output = openssl_decrypt( base64_decode( $string ), $encrypt_method, $key, 0, $iv ); } return $output; } |
So, how to encrypt a string? Just call this function and pass your string. Additionally set your second…