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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Non-destructive array extending in PHP
25 May 2017 13:30:48
Article on extending PHP arrays by one or array of pieces of data non-destructively .
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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.
28 Jan 2022 12:34:11
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.
24 May 2024 11:51:01
There is no data to update error in CodeIgniter 4
Finding a solution to There is no data to update error in CodeIgniter 4.
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.
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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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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