Mcrypt is deprecated since PHP 7.1 and completely removed from PHP since version 7.2. You should use OpenSSL or Sodium. But sometimes you're stuck on using mcrypt because of an older server or application.
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- Mcrypt for PHP 7.2+ on cPanel server
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Deploying your PHP projects on cPanel hosting without any downtime with Envoyer.
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Unfortunately not all your packages can be open source. Some companies don't join the "open source train" while other packages must remain private for other reasons...
- Howto: Fix Microsoft Sculpt keyboard sticky keys
Fixing the annoying sticky keys problem with the Microsoft Sculpt keyboard.
- Quick tip: Empty trash from command line (Windows and Linux)
Emptying the trash or recycle bin can be done by right clicking on the icon and hitting the empty option, but what if you want to empty the trash from the command line?
- DirectAdmin: apt libz error
Getting the `/usr/local/lib/libz.so.1: no version information available` error? Let's fix that!
- Quick tip: Finding subfolders
When organizing folders you might want to find out if (and which) folder has subfolders. Let's figure out how to find those.
- XPath select parent by child attribute
Using the XML parser for a crawler works great. Most of the sources are well formatted and easy to parse. Unfortunately not all sources are that easy and that's where some advanced XPath comes in handy.