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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Setting home and siteurl dynamically in Wordpress
10 Dec 2016 09:44:06
Article on how to leverage WordPress hooks to set home and site_url dynamically.
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06 Sep 2017 23:04:22
Mapping numeric score to feedback message in PHP
Article on mapping a numeric or percent score to a feedback message with code examples in PHP programming language.
21 Dec 2016 11:07:56
Genericons unicode values
List of Unicode code points for Genericons vector icon set and a BASH script that finds the codes.
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.
14 Jul 2020 11:08:06
Recursively updating deeply nested arrays in PHP
An article on recursively updating deeply nested arrays using array_walk_recursive and custom nested array traversal function in PHP.
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.
28 Jan 2022 12:34:11
Recent
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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