Web Developer Zone
Web Developer Zone is a code first section devoted to tools and techniques used in web development. Thematically, the main focus here is on PHP, Linux, BASH, JavaScript and a little bit of MySQL and Python.
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Dissecting e-mail spamming hack based on PHP CGI
24 Jul 2020 18:27:44
Article about how vulnerable PHP CGI setups can become a source of e-mail spam.
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03 Aug 2020 00:39:31
Piping JSON object to PHP script
Article about how to pass data from a shell to a PHP script with a pipe on the command line or directly using PHP system function.
18 Jul 2020 00:39:07
Transforming range of variable to 0 to 1 and custom ranges
Learn how to transform variable's range to [0,1] or a custom range.
29 Jul 2023 17:05:58
Fixing No input file specified error in CodeIgniter 4
Get rid of No input file specified error in CodeIgniter 4.
20 May 2021 17:49:23
Mapping associative array keys to variables with $$ in PHP
A neat trick to reduce amount of code needed to access data stored in PHP associative array.
27 Jan 2022 12:25:32
Creating URL-safe slugs in CodeIgniter 4
Build URL-secure slugs using URL and Text helper functions in CodeIgniter4
07 Apr 2022 00:55:48
MongoDB mongod server fails to start after installation and solution
MongoDB server not starting after installation due to missing dependencies and how to solve this problem.
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23 Feb 2020 16:24:10
JSON object in asynchronous HTTP request
Most of the time when there is a need for a HTTP client, a browser for example, to exchange data with a HTTP server, like Apache with loaded PHP module, the client sends the data in the form of a URL encoded string to the server using POST or GET (asynchronous) request. The data ...
21 Feb 2020 14:54:20
Vue.js Fetch API and PHP generators
By now, Vue.js is an established player among JavaScript frameworks for building user interfaces, and rightly so. It is lightweight, well-documented, easy to learn and incredibly flexible piece of JavaScript code. Considering all this, it is high time to give this framework an ...
17 Feb 2020 00:41:03
Binary Search algorithm advanced implementation in PHP
In this article I look at what's known as Binary Search algorithm and provide its advanced implementation in PHP programming language. This is the second part of the series on the algorithm. In the first part (main/index/binary-search-algorithm-implementation-in-php) I ...
16 Feb 2020 00:43:24
Binary Search algorithm implementation in PHP
In this article I take a closer look at a very efficient search algorithm called Binary Search. I implement it in PHP programming language and provide example usage for searches done on arrays of common data. This article is the first part of the two. In the second part I give a ...
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