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PHP is a widely-used, general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development.
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PHP - Checkboxes multiple selections [on hold]
HI there straight to the point hopefully it's a easy question
My PHP code "mailhandler.php" seems to be giving all my checkboxes on my HTML site to my email showing checked. I want the user to only ...
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Rewriting linked list function without a NULL variable
This is how my LinkedList class looks like in PHP. I am trying to figure out if I can rewrite my reverse_list_recursively() ...
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Printing to terminal in a color
Basically, I wish to have 3 printers to print in error state, success state or info state which means nothing but different colors.
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PHP/Phalcon RESTful API architecture
I'm building a RESTful API in PHP using the Phalcon framework. The API will consist of multiple modules (e.g. api.example.com/mail/users, api.example.com/web/users, etc). So I want to put all module ...
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Magento MySQL search based on phone number
I'm building a search for Magento. Magento API doesn't provide an easy way to look up a customer using a phone number so I created a custom solution. My MySQL/PHP OOP skills are limited. Did I miss ...
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Sudoku generator
I managed to create a Sudoku generator but I'll just go ahead and say that it generates 1 out of 500 tries on average. I'd say that's pretty inefficient and I'd like to ask you for advice on ...
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Script which generates time slots with hours and minutes with division [on hold]
So, this is a bit messy script, so I'm wanna say sorry If it may be hard to read.
It takes 3 main arguments: starting time(hour), ending hour(hour) and integer which is used for hour division. eg: ...
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PHP Register Form - OOP
I'm trying to build my first object oriented system. I'm not sure that my register function below is the best way of approaching this within OOP.
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Road tax data parser
I'm making a data parser for road tax data (costs) which parses a JSON file with all weird variable names, which the customer gave me.
The costs are different on each vehicle type. The costs at some ...
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Registration form with validation and error messages
I've been working on a registration form page in jQuery Mobile and I think I'm starting to get it fully complete.
What I need feedback on is if I've forgotten anything in terms of accessibility, ...
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Button to follow / unfollow a user
As a beginner in coding, I have just written this code.
The code should Add a form with a button to each user profile, it named Follow or Unfollow. It updates the user meta named "following" for the ...
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Is this a correct implementation/interpretation of the “Birthday Problem”?
I recently wanted to determine the probability of generating a colliding string, given a character pool size, string length and number of strings to generate. I was led to the Birthday Problem, and ...
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Safety of contact form
I have made slight edits to a simple PHP contact form that I have found online. Can you see anything else that I could do to ensure that I am protected from email injections and spam? I have used ...
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View for getting and displaying data
I have code that displays the data that it gets. However, because I could not think of a good way to do this I have ended up putting most of the back end in to the view.
Just a quick note about the ...
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WordPress: multiple loops
I have two loops on my page - each with their own category. It works, but I don't know if this is the best practice as I'm pretty new to this stuff.
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Remove parameters from string containing URL
Is this the best way to remove URL parameters from a string containing an URL?
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Optimizing pagination of HTML tables
I'd like to share my implementation to you to confirm if it's a correct way to solve my problem. I have a list of products which have an attributes table and a description table (both in html_encoded ...
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Are nested foreach loops to compare two multidimensional arrays efficient in PHP?
I've got the following PHP code, which is taking a search term, and checking if any of the search terms could be or could have a nickname.
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Stylized HTML table with vertical scroll inside tbody [migrated]
today I experimented with HTML tables and populating them from a MySQL database. My code worked well for what I needed and as is the table looked something like this:
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PHP Factory Method Pattern Implementation
This is an attempt at the Factory Method Pattern
It emulates the logical model
and also the physical model
Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_method_pattern
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Factory Pattern Implementation in PHP [closed]
I have read some articles regarding the factory pattern and decided to write some code as an exercise. This is my first attempt and am not 100% if I did it right. I've omitted some implementations for ...
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PHP & AJAX live chat - alternative ways
I am trying to implement a live chat for my websites visitors. Currently I am using the code that you can see below - a PHP script that processes in background and that is called by AJAX. I am not ...
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Get all the PDF files from FTP server in different folders
Well, quite a biggie with all the foreach's. It works, it gets me 981 results, but there must be a way to shorten this code. Right?
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Uploading images via MySQL in Blob
Is it safe to upload images via MySQL in Blob? I've constructed my code like the following:
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OOP PHP best practices
I've worked with PHP for a few years now and have a degree of understanding about classes / objects, but I've never written my own until now.
In that vein then, I'm looking for a bit of confirmation ...
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PHP MIMEType class
There isn't a very reliable way (in my opinion) to get the mime type of a specific extension, regardless of the file actually being of that type or not.
This type of thing usually is used when ...
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Securing a form with image uploads
I am using PDO prepared statements to store user entered input and store that input to the database. The code will store a text input and 5 uploaded images.
Will this code protect from data SQL ...
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UnitTesting: Is this TestCase overkill?
Is this Test Case overkill?
I am new to Unit Testing so I am learning and I'd love to hear your opinion about it.
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Handling errors when using PDO to connect to a database instead of MySQLi
What would be the preferred method for handling errors when using the PDO to connect to a MySQL database? I was using mysqli_error($this->pdo), but I heard this ...
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Dijkstra's algorithm in PHP
This is Dijkstra's algorithm in PHP. About the data structure, I use a 2-dimensional array "$_distArr[m][n]=length" to store it. Is there any improvement for this?
$a & $b are the start and the ...
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Data model in MVC for multiple providers
I have constructed an API service that dives into a storage engine and retrieve data.
I have tried my best to apply the MVC modelling with services (repository) in mind where the controller (as it ...
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Uploading multiple images using PHP
I literally spend all day working on PHP and I think I figured it out, but I need some reviews in order to make my code secure & okay. I am asking you about functionality here. The code below ...
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Protect from people bruteforcing the PHPSESSID
The PHPSESSID is stored in the clients cookie so I don't consider it as secure. Someone might bruteforce it and perform some action (like a Facebook status post) whenever a session was successfully ...
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Programming MySQLi prepared statements
I'm programming code with MySQLi prepared statements. I'm a beginner and just want to ask to experts if my code is correct.
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Navigating calendar by week
I started actually learning a little programming last year, as opposed to just hacking away at libraries and found fragments.
For a WordPress plugin I needed to navigate through weeks, which I ...
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Simple PHP Login Register Script with OOP
I am relatively new to programming and OOP in PHP. I tried to create a Simple Login Register Script using my basic knowledge of OOP. I'm sure my code can be better in a lot of way. I'm trying to code ...
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Simple encryption with PHP 5.5
I want to do simple encryption using PHP 5.5. By “simple” I mean I want to use native PHP functions. I have created this code that works, can it be improved? It's to encrypt/decrypt strings and binary ...
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PHP associative array with two properties
I'm moving a system over to PDO and since the queries are parameterized, I need to specify both the type and value of each parameter when preparing them.
Right now I have a ...
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Instagram-like news feed display
I am writing an application that shows a news feed, much like Instagram. For this, I have a function in the model to select the feeds as shown in the code. For some reason, this runs quite slow and I ...
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Passing multiple JS arrays to PHP via data mapper
I'm making a project to calculate road-tax prices based on a vehicle's weight, type and vehicle's owner's province.
For that I've received data in 9 different JavaScript files, all those files ...
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Object instantiation with multiple parameters
I'm trying to create a little block presenter for Laravel which displays blocks of content in certain positions. I have 2 classes, BlockFactory and ...
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Improvement of a regular expression pattern
I created this script to take informations "at-the-moment" of this site:
Pictures of name channel
Name of channel
Pictures channel
Times
Title
Type
My script ...
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Making user login system secure with $_SESSION [closed]
I am hoping that someone can help me out here. I am creating a PHP web app that requires a user to login to view their data in the MySQL database.
I just want to know if this is a good approach and ...
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AI for an online contest
I'm actually creating an AI for the online contest Vindinium. The fact is that's also an exam for my school because I'm going to have a note with that work.
I created an AI based on ants pheromones ...
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Swift project using PHP web service
I was hoping for someone to review my current project, which was created in Swift and uses a PHP web service. I'm not worried about UI elements, as this is just a 'test' project, but I'm concerned ...
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Programming with PHP & jQuery
I'm programming a system and I want to know if this is the correct way or if there are a better way to do it.
Container:
I have more fields but I only added one to show you the container.
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