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CMS and Databases vs. DIY
I have been programming for many years now, primarily in PHP and the like and would consider myself an intermediate programmer. Some of my online projects have now gone global and very widely used, i ...
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Bayes filtering and data storage with expansive data sets
I am looking to write a Bayes filter that will act as an indicator of topic for a number of topics with a variable number of sources. Given a really big number of RSS feeds and here really big might ...
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Minimize touching the already-working code when a radical change is required
I have a code that highly relies on an Array structure like the following:
$array['customer'][$customer_id]['details'][..]; // it goes to about 10 levels deep
However, after almost two years ...
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Adding ordered nodes to tree in arbitrary order
I have a database of nodes. Each node can have exactly one parent, but any number of children. Some nodes may be stored with no parent, but at run time, I can create a default "root" node to be the ...
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Is a PHP array an example of a dynamic data structure?
I did my homework, and it says that dynamic data structures are "data structures that change in size as a program needs it to by allocating and de-allocating memory from the heap".
So I was ...
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Method to store some site content data, allowing reusability
(Don't believe this is a "best practice" question as I believe there will be a single better choice).
I need to choose a data storage option to store specific site data to allow easy management and ...
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I need to create an employee schedule/appointments program, but I don't know how to set it up [closed]
I work for a gym. I am the programmer, its just me, nobody else! Gets really frustrating when there's nobody to bounce conceptual ideas off of.
I'm getting rid of our archaic paper binder systems for ...
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Testing the Consumers of Subclassed Data Structures
PHP's SplQueue does not include a clear() or reset() function to wipe data out of the data structure. My application requires that functionality. This leaves two options:
A) Create a subclass of ...
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PHP SplFixedArray How To Deal With billions of indexes?
I've built a flatfile db system that will work like mini-noSQL system
and it split db to smaller files, and I did a SplFixedArray wrapper for it
with a method for searching usage built on preg_grep.
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Social Network Wide ID System
So I have been developing a Social Network site that will allow all the normal stuff like Commenting, Posting, Messaging, Uploading (images, videos, music, files etc), Hash-tagging etc. However I was ...
