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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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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15 Jul 2020 11:21:05
Two indispensable formulas for percentages
In this article I look at two very useful mathematical formulas related to dealing with percentages efficiently. You might know them, but it is likely, you haven't not been shown at least one of them while studying the subject during your school years. I remember my own ...
14 Jul 2020 11:08:06
Recursively updating deeply nested arrays in PHP
Suppose you have a deeply nested array of items, with its members being numbers and arrays. You want to update all the numbers, like 3 and 5 for example, in all of the arrays, no matter how deep nested the numbers are in the structure. In this article I look at two methods of ...
02 Mar 2020 02:10:42
Finding Minimum Spanning Tree with Prim's Algorithm and PHP
Minimum spanning tree (MST) is an edge subset of edge-weighed undirected graph, that connect all the vertices together with the minimum possible total edge weight. There are a few methods of finding minimum spanning tree of a graph. One such efficient method is called ...
27 Feb 2020 20:06:39
Geocoding with HERE APIs and Vue.js
Geocoding with HERE API and Vue.js Geocoding is a process of finding a geographic location of an object on the Earth's surface. The location is specified using two coordinates. One is latitude, the other longitude. Both are specified in degrees. Latitude's range is 90 ...
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