PHP is a widely-used, general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development.
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Loading files or directories based on type
I am building a config class for PHP which initially loads all given config files. To add files, users should be able to provide either a single file or a directory where files can be JSON or PHP.
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Handle data received by ajax request and update database (prepared stmt)
I have an ajax request from a page where the user is being asked to enter their date of birth. The request url file has the code below and works all good. However, I'll be rewriting all mysql/mysqli ...
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Use header application/x-download
Zend framework 1. Physically, the file does not exist, it is created based on database.
Okay so use header?
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Print Bootstrap 3 Tabs Component using only one foreach Loop
I'm using Bootstrap 3 to build a tab-panel component, based on information coming from the end-user. I don't like how there's a second foreach loop, but I don't know how else to print the HTML ...
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Basic sign-up method, testable and with try/catch [on hold]
I am learning how to implement testing and try/catch statements into my code. I have a Laravel application with the following ...
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Grabbing hashed password from a database
I have just discovered the beauty of prepared statements in PHP and how they protect against SQL injection. In my first time using them, I am attempting to grab a hashed password from a database and ...
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PHP password encryption algorithm
I've written a password encryption algorithm in PHP, which (I think) is not very vulnerable to rainbowtable attacks. It's just that I don't have a lot of experience with encryptions, nor PHP. But from ...
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Simple Router class
I made a simple routing class that I like to get reviews for, mostly because I do not know how to make it SOLID, since I even made this class separate from the HTTP response, request ... for the sake ...
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MySQL JOIN to JSON array
I'm building a HTTP API and this part should return a JSON list of posts and their attached photos, like this:
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I dont want to reload all the php page after dropbox selection in a div [closed]
I have a php page to present in a table, some results from DB after you select a name in a dropbox. I have a -- div id="sidebar"-- and a --div id="top_menu" --for the left menu.. After that there is ...
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Immutable subclass of a Set class
If I'm creating an immutable class from an existing class, should I override methods that mutate the property or have an instance of it and write my own methods to read from the property?
I have an ...
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Password hashing and matching
I took information from a series of posts and some prior knowledge to implement the following hashing algorithm.
However, there is a lot of talk about what implementations are secure and not secure. ...
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Count specific array values
I want to count specific strings from array values
$array = array("report=D","report=D","report=D","report=I","report=I");
I am going to count the number of ...
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Volunteer Signup Report
I was creating a Volunteer Signup Report report in Microsoft Excel yesterday for my job and I had a moment of inspiration. What if I turned it into a website and made it dynamic? The volunteers sign ...
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Laravel controller for a grocery list
What I have is a grocery list. Once I select a grocery by ticking the checkbox, I can select an amount for that product and a unit (unit is referred to in my below code as group). Once I am done, I ...
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Simple PHP session handler class (using MySQL for session data storage)
I have tried to write a small light weighted php session handling class that use PHP's session_set_save_handler() function to overwrite the default session handling ...
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Basic login script for educational purposes
I have created a login script to demonstrate the usage of sessions in PHP. The focus is not on security, databases or encryption. The idea is to exemplify how you can use sessions to protect pages ...
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Learning OO PHP: Am I doing this with “good practices”?
Trying to practice some OO PHP and I'm just wondering if what I'm doing is okay or not. Please tell me if there are any alarms in my method so that I can stop doing it and learn a better way.
In my ...
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Password recovery program
This is a password recovery program I made, and I just want it checked out.
These aren't all the files for the login and register system, only the password recovery part. The columns in the ...
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Validate profile completeness
This function checks these 6 fields for a user profile to determine if they have "completed" their profile. This just feels like it could be done better, but I can't figure how.
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Comparing two almost exact arrays
I have two arrays:
$row
$rowTwo
The only difference between these two arrays are the first two keys have slightly different ...
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What is the better way to write such code in PHP?
Is there a better way to write the below code?
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Exception Handler on a Switch
I am working on rewriting an application in Laravel 5.1. I am new to the exception handling technique introduced in 5.0. I have overlooked taking advantage of throwing/catching exceptions frequently ...
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Chunked file upload
I'm working on an PHP application that will allow (but not require) chunked file upload (from jQuery File Upload on the front side). I tried to find appropriate code and was only able to find the ...
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Receiving an language string from file
I'm receiving an language string out of an PHP file which returns an array like this:
DIR_LANG\en\home.php:
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Session Handling Setup
Just wanted to run through my PHP session handling and get some feedback and tips with regard to what is good (if anything!), what could be better and what is either plain wrong, or using out of date ...
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Web Scraping class schedules
I just want some advice regarding code style and best practices. Also I want to know if I'm using constant declaration and closures properly.
This code is used to get the data from here ...
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Resize images in the background after upload
I have working code that uploads and resizes images. What im trying to figure out is how I can direct the browser to another page or view kind of the way facebook does, but still call the resize ...
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Website register functionality
I have two links in my header:
Register
Login
I am not creating it dynamically. If the user clicks on "login," the login form will be visible, similarly for the register form.
My registration:
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Selecting orders submitted by a user, segregated by status
I have recently started using Laravel as my chosen framework. It is my first time using a framework. As I have made progress through my project, my controller methods have started to increase in size. ...
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Upload a photo with a unique name using PHP
I have written a script for basic uploading of a single image to a web server using PHP. This is an example that is intended for educational purposes in a basic PHP course. It does not take extensive ...
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A standard PHP script for API requests [closed]
I am setting up some PHP pages to provide API services to users (and my applications).
In its most basic form, it looks like this:
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Laravel Controller including sort and search
I am using this code on my own personal website (my personal administration site) so it doesn't need any security and so on. I am not into learning everything about that yet, and although I do know a ...
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The correct place to implode array - MVC and Repositories concept
I am writing an application with the repositories concept in php with laravel framework.
In my controller I have this method:
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Populating an array from a database
I have a query that populates an array from the database. In some cases, this query returns a great amount of data, (let's say for purpose of an example, 100.000 records). Each row of the database has ...
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Simple administrator authentication page in PHP
I made a simple administrator page lock in PHP and I was wondering how secure it was. I want to use this script to secure administrator pages for my portfolio site but I want it to be fairly secure.
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Generating a dynamically expandable form with multiple similar categories
Overview:
Here's the look of my form.
In this example, I have a form that allows dynamically adding fields in each category. Like, I can add multiple attractions like 5 attractions, same goes for ...
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Image-uploading
This currently works properly, but just takes too long. Some of the functions in it are necessary and need to remain, such as resizing, and double saves. But it probably has room for improvement. I ...
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Dynamically created Exception classes
This is a question about best practices. I have a project I am building and I have the following base Exception class:
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Processing document file takes forever
I'm developing a system in which users can upload their .doc file and the system will check whether the file contains certain words, and the system will tell the users whether their doc file falls ...
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mysql_safe_query()
I have been thinking of a sql-injection free implementation in dynamic languages. Here's what I came with. All the code was written just for fun and learning purposes.
I would like to share it and ...
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PHP class architecture and dependency injection
Let me start off by saying I am not new to PHP or PDO, but very new to OO PHP, and have been struggling to get a firm idea of best practices in my head regarding dependency injection and structuring ...
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PDO Database Auto Table Creator
How can I do the following with less nested loops.
How can I output the Table names above their corresponding tables without having to loop.
Functions for returning the DB Info:
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Phone number extraction with regular expressions
I've been working on my own phone number extraction snippet of Regex code and I'd appreciate your feedback on it. I've tried to make it match as many different types of numbers as I knew existed in ...
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Simple DB API for inserting a record
I'm looking to make some improvements to a deliberately crude API written in PHP, it's designed to handle simple requests and talk to the DB.
I have the following DB class:
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In-memory file system context for the behat PHP BDD testing framework
I wanted to come up with a 'utility' context to enable testing of the file system with behat. Specifically this is aimed at helping with the behavioral testing of php command line applications that ...
