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Remapping Heading Angle to Coordinates to Move By

I wrote the following code to take the heading of an object, and determine which direction (x,y) it needs to move to be heading forward in a 2D plane. I have debugged the code and know that it ...
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Best practices in PHP

I've posted here before and got pretty helpful reviews. So, how does my code look now. To keep it really helpful, I just copied this from the middle of one of my projects. Review please? <?php ...
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Basic PHP comment form: what ways can I improve security, efficiency/cleanliness, or conventionality?

I am a programming novice. I've written this simple PHP script to run a very basic comment form and would appreciate any feedback, especially on these three topics: Efficiency (not sure the right ...
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Loading Javascript Libraries with PHP API

First question on this site so please take it easy on me and let me know if I infringe the common etiquette :-) I have written the following script which simply: Loops through javascript files ...
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Improving a “Http request URl builder” to be shorter, faster, easier to read

I've setup up a nice, little parent class that I can extend easily to do Http request to servers offering some sort of data with JSON/XML/whatever output. You can see the init() function that is ...
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Closures power and concise style vs readability and maintainability?

Is large use of closures actually a bad thing for readability and maintainability of the code? For example, consider the following code with (comments removed on purpose): $withMobile = function($c) ...
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Code Readability vs Code Length

library.php My own HTML tag encoder that will print HTML codes according to the input. <?php function tag($tagname, $content = NULL, array $properties = NULL) { $html = ...
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Validating password rules

Edit: I already know password rules beside length are counter-productive. It's not my choice. Also, I know that performance is absolutely trivial here. I only care about performance by way of ...
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PHP Validation with functions and list()

I have multiple form validation checks around my site so I decided to write them as functions to simplify the process of creating the validation pages, here is a snippet for an understanding of what ...
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PHP - create a new user into a db using MVC framework

All, I am a beginner and am creating a small web app. I'm working on the registration process for new users, and as this is largely a learning project I'm doing it from scratch. Here is my user ...
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PHP Request Class

This class handles HTTP requests. It's a singleton class that parses URI to get the controller, method and parameters and then executes the controller's method. Maybe parseUri should be in another ...
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Instantiating objects with many attributes

I have a class with quite a few attributes, most of which are known when I create an instance of the object. So I pass all the values in the constructor: $op = new OpenIdProvider($imgPath . $name . ...
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How to improve this to a readable Unittests that explain the Class better ?

for starters i though of going with a mostly code only example. This shows a testcase for an old caching library i use for a project. It features simple save/load/delete functions (saidly static ...