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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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Sorting objects by their property in PHP
10 Dec 2016 13:10:14
A few words on a basic technique of sorting objects by their common property in PHP programming language.
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

28 Jan 2022 12:34:11
Recent

08 Oct 2017 14:29:33
Arrangements with repetition implementation in PHP
This article, and in particular PHP code it contains, is an outcome of my lack of patience with regards to making arrangements with repetition of finite set items. Recently, while solving a Probability problem, which eventually led to an infinite series, I reached a step which ...

05 Oct 2017 21:49:26
Matrix transpose operator implementation in PHP
If you look for a computer programming challenge, you'll certainly find a few decent ones implementing concepts Linear Algebra deals with. One of simpler operations, at least on the paper, one carries out on the matrix is switching rows and columns indices along the main ...

21 Sep 2017 12:43:34
Compound interest in PHP part 2
First article ( a link to it can be found at the end of this article ) in this series was all about developing libraries for compound interest calculation in PHP programming language. Now, it is time to employ those pieces of code to do what they have been built for. In this ...

20 Sep 2017 00:25:21
Compound interest in PHP part 1
In this article I look at how to write a reusable piece of code for finding compound interest and total accumulated value of deposit or loan in PHP programming language. Code developed here will become a basis to both a command line interface script and website form then. Since ...
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