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How can I add multiple mysql queries in php or wordpress? [on hold]

I'm creating a plugin for wordpress and I want to be able to insert a Gallery title which goes to the the galleryTable and then add Images in the same page that will be added to another imagesTable ...
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Compare multidimensional arrays

I'm writing a wordpress plugin that makes changes to the admin menu. To add some context: The wordpress global $menu is a multidimensional array. Each array in ...
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Basic contact form

This code processes a basic contact form with a name, email and message. It also asks for a code to be typed in. The data is then transformed to avoid malicious placing of HTML script on the server, ...
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Application Configuration in PHP

I'm learning PHP and I know too many ways to configure the application. I use this method: Folder: app config app.php db.php src class.php index.php ...
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Better way to validate user input in cakephp

I'm trying to find a way to make my code easeier to read, so i found that major part of the code is validation trough if, ifelse: ...
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My library for 2 dimensional shapes

This is my first OOP PHP library and wanted to get advice on how I can improve what I wrote. This is what I needed to do: I'm also not sure on what it meant by "proportionally resize the shape up or ...
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Copying a large number of DOM elements

The aim is to duplicate and append each .grid__item into the .gallery element. The following code was my first instinct, and ...
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Determine value in range, inject to HTML to be used in CSS

I want to show users what package they are, based on how many items they have in their cart. The code works, but I'm wondering if anything can be improved. ...
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PHP Login System [on hold]

I am trying to make login system but i could put nothing in the username and password bar and it still takes me to the users page. I just wanted to know if anything i have here needs to be changed or ...
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Laravel 5 Search

Edited my code and put the "search function" seperately. Still I think I could improve this code a lot, especially this part: if($month !== "") { And ofcourse ...
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php most elegant function call returning array [on hold]

I am asking your preference between two similar solutions. First way : ...
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Pulling data from API, Allowed memory exhausted

I'm working on a project where I pull data (JSON) from an API. I would like to manipulate this data and store this as useful information in my DB (MySQL). My code is working if I would like to make, ...
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Displaying completed and failed wuuks using one or two functions

I have upgraded my code. In the old code I had two functions: display_maker_success() and display_maker_fail(): ...
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Form Builder for RESTFUL API

I have a web app which requires a team leader to be able to add additional text fields of their choice whenever they add a new user. So for example, by default my app would have the following fields ...
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Throw an exception which contains a nested set of previous exceptions

I have a set of domain objects which try to find a solution to a problem. The top level object has an algorithm which splits up the problem and delegates it to lower level objects, which in turn do ...
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Mixed scripting language API to determine file upload location and scrape city government website to find corresponding government official

I wrote this script as an NYC-specific-API for file upload for a mobile app. Users upload a video file and also their geographic coordinates. I then use an external API to get the corresponding ...
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Retrieve and Stores multiple data to database

i am currently working on a project that involves me creating a worksheet for storing student test scores and grades. i wrote a script that retrieves users information and presents it in form of a ...
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MySQL data fetching without page refresh

I've recently finished a prototype for a little Raspberry Pi website. The main page of the site displays current users found in the room (through bluetooth). I wanted this list updated regularly from ...
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PHP page pagination

I think my code is sloppy can anyone give me advice to do it better? This is a page pagination that get rows from mysql db and calculate the number of pages. ...
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User model with user roles in Codeigniter PHP/MySQL

I am building an app that currently allows the users to have 3 different roles: Consumer Merchant Admin I have three tables: user (Name, email, password etc with a status=0/1) user_role (The ...
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Uploading LDAP search results to an FTP server

I know this is quite a generic question, I was hoping it could stay open so I can try to improve my styles. Basically, I have an application that connects to LDAP, performs searches, and produces a ...
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Extended Laravel Eloquent models to add filters to model setters

One of the tasks I find myself doing repeatedly is to filter the incoming inputs that will be stored in models. Examples of this include trimming, removing repeated or unnecessary pre/suffixes, commas ...
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Multiple choice game

This is a multiple choice game. It has a web page where you enter a question, which can have multiple answers along with multiple options. Can anyone recommend any improvements for my code? ...
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User auth class and security

Just curious if my authentication is secure enough, really. Also wondering if I should ditch the secret variable and just use ...
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Table validator function

I've been working on a function which allows me to validate a table recieved through my REST API: ...
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Manual sorting of database output

I have a small (few elements) list of primary keys, sorted by hand. It come from user input. For example $ids = [15, 75, 54, 13]; The SQL command is simple. ...
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Which one is the best practice for DRY?

I always prefer to minimize the code, but sometimes I got int conflict with others people by the DRY concept. In this simple example, which one would be a good choice? ...
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Having critical section for PHP using redis

Currently, I'm using redis to implement critical section for PHP code, to ensure there isn't more than one process/thread to execute the enclosed code block. I was wondering, is there any edge cases ...
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Ranking and storing scores to a database

I am developing a small website with PHP and am trying to receive user exam scores from the database. I rank it based on the highest score and then store the ranking to the database based on the ...
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Basic Container class and KeyParser class

I have written a basic Container class, which is able to hold data by key-value-pairs. The keys can be notated as an array (e. g. ['database', 'host']) or a string, ...
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Storing option value

I currently have a design that is used to store user/selected options in a database, but I am not sure what I am doing is good or not. I need some opinion, suggestion and criticise on the design. ...
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Add user and image upload script

This is my Codeigniter Controller and Model for user image and data upload. I have some questions here: Is this good way of writing this script? Can this code be put to production if its need is ...
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Counting duplicate tags in a string of many tags

I have a photo list page where each photo has multiple tags (as spaced words). I'm trying to display most of the tags on the page after: Removing duplicate tags Sorting tags by having most occurring ...
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Simple web form in PHP

This is a simple web form handler in PHP that sends a completely filled web form to a email. I see lots of repeating code. What is the best way to reduce repetition? Is my way of checking for fields ...
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Making change using the smallest possible number of coins

I have written code based on the Greedy Algorithm. The example can be found here. Problem: Make a change of a given amount using the smallest possible number of coins. Coins available are: ...
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Setting Class Properties

I am adding classes to some legacy code and wondering if there is a more appropriate way to be setting the properties. I am also trying to understand the trade offs, if there is another way to do ...
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Multiple file upload class

I've written this a few days back, which is not too big. Do you see anywhere I can improve my logic? ...
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Laravel API design

I've been designing and coding my Laravel API boilerplate for couple days now, and I'd like to hear some advice/improvement hints! I'm pretty satisfied with the result, but I'm also aware, there ...
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Secure array encryption and decryption

I have written the below class which encrypts and decrypts a PHP array. The encrypted data and the hash are sent over an insecure connection and I would appreciate if you could check the code for any ...
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Generating tables of numbers in PHP

I have this code and this works fine but I think it's too lengthy. I want to know if there can be a less lengthy code. I've heard from people that lengthy code is often not considered good. ...
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PHP class to represent types of refrigerants

I'm relatively experienced with Java and C++ so picking up PHP wasn't too difficult. I wanted to get some feedback on my first PHP class. There's nothing extremely complicated as of now, but its nice ...
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PHP to Powershell - Transport Function

I had previously made a script for an Active directory password changer but i wanted to compress the main component into a function by itself to keep it small. ...
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URL image validation

I'm trying to write a method to validate an image from a URL. The method will accept an array of image URL. The image should be validated by its type, size and dimensions. Right now, I'm able to ...
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Get similar posts with manyToMany relationship

I have a table post with a many-to-many relationship with the tag and product tables. ...
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JWT with Firebase php-jwt

So my web app requires JWT authentication and I decided to make a mockup wrapper class for php-jwt before implementing it into my web app: ...
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Repository pattern in laravel 5.1

I am currently working on an ecommerce project in Laravel 5.1. I have implemented Repository Pattern by learning from this site only for 1 model, namely, ...
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Printing a huge document

I have a web page containing n pages of paged data, showing 20 records at a time. The front end has a link to another page that opens the same data, but without the paging and calls ...
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Silex - Guzzle call to external API

I'm at the point where I am happy with the functionality of my code but I dislike how its written. It seems like I can be more modular with it but I can't seem to figure out how to improve on it ...
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A form builder component

I would love my component to be reviewed. I am looking forward to responses mainly answering the questions: Is my code violating the SOLID principals? If so, where and how? Does my component contain ...