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
Selecting items created within the current month in MySQL
22 Jan 2022 19:08:58
Find items created within the last month in MySQL
Popular
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
28 Jul 2020 00:28:15
Turning OOP class to graph for better code composition and understanding
Article on perceiving OOP classes and objects based on them as graphs and advantages this approach yields.
Recent
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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