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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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Updating WordPress database URLs - part 2
03 Jan 2017 13:03:49
Second part of the series on the subject of replacing URLs in WordPress database.
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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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17 Jan 2017 11:57:41
Essential WordPress plugin hooks
Essential WordPress hooks like init, wp_loaded, admin_init, admin_enqueue_scripts, admin_menu save_post, get_the_excerpt, wp_trim_excerpt and plugin_action_links below. init This hook is available for both frontend and backend. As it fires, some important WordPress ...
15 Jan 2017 16:58:45
Bash recursion examples - part 1
Some recursive functions written in BASH Dealing with misbehaving recursive code in Bash Below is a chunk of code that stops recursive function. Better stop it than be sorry. declare -i recursion_level=1 declare -i exit_recursion_level=120 recursive(){ local -i ...
11 Jan 2017 12:58:48
Env and BASH declare
Environmental variables on a Linux based system like Debian are named strings available to all applications initialized from text console or some graphical interface. These variables are gradually added by various processes as your system starts. Once login shell is invoked ...
03 Jan 2017 13:03:49
Updating WordPress database URLs - part 2
Updating WordPress database URLs, part 2 - a database-wide approach. All tables get scanned and old URLs updated to new ones. Also serialized data is properly dealt with. The script The script is a general purpose filter, it takes INPUTDB, which is name of the database (as ...
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