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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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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