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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Sorting UTF-8 strings in PHP
29 Apr 2017 16:41:28
Sorting UTF-8 encoded strings using strcoll and usort functions or alternatively Collator library in PHP.
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10 Dec 2016 09:44:06
Setting home and siteurl dynamically in Wordpress
Article on how to leverage WordPress hooks to set home and site_url dynamically.
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.
28 Jan 2022 12:34:11
11 Jan 2022 00:42:58
Make sass watch and compile scss files in the background
Make sass command watch and compile scss files in the background.
15 Jul 2023 16:56:31
Get logged-in user username and groups with Python
Getting username and system groups of logged-in user on a Linux-based operating system.
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.
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04 Feb 2022 22:19:19
Performing inner and outer SQL joins in CodeIgniter 4
In this post I look at how to perform inner and outer SQL joins using CodeIgniter 4 prepared queries and Query Builder class. I assume you know what SQL joins are and when to use them in MySQL. This article describes a specific situation. There are three tables, posts, galleries ...
04 Feb 2022 00:47:56
Prepending an empty string key option to options array for form_dropdown function in CodeIgniter 4
A couple of sentences on how to prepend an options array, which contains numerical keys with a non-numerical key option for form_dropdown function in CodeIgniter 4. The option could be something like, '' => 'Choose ...' . One very good, probably the best, ...
02 Feb 2022 00:17:15
Adding, listing and dropping foreign keys in MySQL
This time a couple of words on how to add, list and drop foreign keys with ON CASCADE DELETE clause. What are foreign keys for? You define your foreign keys on tables to ensure integrity of your data. One particular case of this is a foreign key with ON CASCADE DELETE clause. ...
28 Jan 2022 21:39:38
Finding previous and next database table item with Query Builder in CodeIgniter 4
Imagine you have a database table Posts with items like blog posts, news and pages. Each of those items has its unique id and type like "page" or "news". Given an id of a database item, your goal is to find the previous and the next item of the same type ...
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