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.
Pick of the week
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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11 Jan 2022 00:42:58
Make sass watch and compile scss files in the background
In this short article I look at how to make sass command watch and compile scss file in the background. If you run sass on the command line with --watch switch, it will block your terminal. You can regain access to the console with Ctrl+C, which will kill the process, or just ...
08 Jan 2022 20:42:47
Quick node and npm installation using nvm on Debian
Below is a bunch of CLI commands for installing Node using nvm command. NVM is a node version manager, basically a BASH script, which makes it easy to install and manage Node versions on an operating system like Debian GNU/Linux. Debian has a package called nodejs which contains ...
08 Jan 2022 16:50:52
Learning about node modules and their location with npm
Npm - Node Package Manager - provides some very useful commands for learning about global node modules and where they are stored on the operating system directory tree. This knowledge proves very useful, while juggling Node and npm installations or for testing your new setup ...
02 Jan 2022 21:10:00
Easy way to configure child class instances in PHP
Here is a way of configuring an instances of a inheriting class using a configuration method in its parent class in PHP programming language. The method in the parent class is called configure. class Produce{ protected $price = 0.0; public function ...
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