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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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How to get a single validation rule from model in CodeIgniter 4?
12 Oct 2021 00:05:56
Get a single validation rule from a model in CodeIgniter 4.
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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.
01 Aug 2020 16:35:27
cURL over HTTPS - web mailbox authentication and data access
Using cURL over HTTP with TLS to access your web mailbox and collect data from it.
04 Aug 2020 23:21:09
Developing for browser with mocha, chai and window node modules
Developing and testing code for browser in node environment.
24 Jul 2020 18:27:44
Dissecting e-mail spamming hack based on PHP CGI
Article about how vulnerable PHP CGI setups can become a source of e-mail spam.
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.
30 Aug 2017 15:51:20
Traversing array from the middle in PHP
Article on middle-item-first array traversing schemes implemented in PHP with code examples.
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12 Oct 2021 00:05:56
How to get a single validation rule from model in CodeIgniter 4?
Here is a little bit on how to get a single validation rule from a model in CodeIgniter 4. Why would you want to do a thing like this? Well, sometimes you want to validate only a single piece of input data, like for example a customer order code. In Codeigniter 4 validation ...
06 Oct 2021 23:09:12
How to load module helper in CodeIgniter 4?
A few words on how to load a custom helper function defined in a Codeigniter 4 module. Suppose you have a bunch of modules living in modules directory of your Codeigniter 4 project. The modules directory is registered in App/Config/Autoload.php using $psr4 property as follows: ...
20 May 2021 17:49:23
Mapping associative array keys to variables with $$ in PHP
Have you ever tried to map an associative array to variables in such a way, that each newly initialized variable has a name which corresponds to a key in the array and is assigned a value which is found under the key in the array? If you can map array keys and values to ...
18 Mar 2021 20:02:19
Switching from Mcrypt to OpenSSL engine in Kohana application
Is there anyone who still develops with Kohana these days? I do not thinks so ... Hold on a second! I'm one of those dinosaurs! Actually, to be more strict on this, I'm maintaining a few web applications, that have been written using this, once having very good ...
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