PHP is a widely-used, general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development.
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JWT - Simple API example
I have created this fake API just because I want to learn how to use JWT. It is a simple unsigned token exchange with two methods call: login and adminPassword.
I've used ...
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Compute product price that could vary based on chosen product options and the number on product modules
I am looking for a good set of design patterns to compute price. It is currently done in a Calc object, which serves as a kind of a collective library ...
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Balancing extra backslashes while using preg_quote along with preg_replace
This is my first question on Code review, so please be lenient.
I have a user defined expression like this -
{geo} == "23.45"
Which is evaluated at run-time, ...
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Price calculator for motors and pumps
Note
This question was born in request to post more details from this question on Programmers. Since details may uncover new/different complexity, I'm asking another question here. I also will use ...
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Forgotten password / password reset
I have hand-coded a forgotten-password reset system. I am apprehensive about security issues/vulnerabilities. What part of this can be exploited or could be made more secure?
forgot-password.php
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Security of login form using prepared statements
I've prepared a simple login form, using prepared statements to prevent SQL injections. How secure is this ?
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Class that generates records after performing business logic
I wrote a small class that does a database lookup and it generates a collection/Array. The Collection is resorted based on values returned from the database. Finally, the records can be retrieved ...
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Adding Wordpress Meta boxes
I am adding two custom metaboxes to the WordPress post page from a plugin. I am currently doing it with two separate instances of add_meta_boxes but this feels very ...
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Select records between the first and last time the speed was positive
I have the following table:
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PHP autoload class design for a framework
I'm developing a php framework called Stack. I just created the autoload.php as follows.
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Compare 2 arrays and preserve the row number
Background:
You have an eCommerce order of 10 products but you want to refund only 5 of them. The stock managing system needs to preserve the order of row number (orderline) when you do the returns, ...
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Custom MySQLi connector class for PHP
I have written a class that connects to a database using MySQLi and has methods for the connection itself and returns the instance of the MySQLi class.
This works, but feels a little "clunky" and ...
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is_Prime() function on PHP
I tried to make an is_Prime() function in PHP. What do you think about this code?
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Is there a cleaner way to write this code?
The code works as it is but it's very messy. Is there a way to clean up the null checking in the if statement?
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Registration, Validation & Storage functions
The last time I wrote any serious code was the 90's, so a lot has changed and I am finding I am having to relearn pretty much everything.
I have leaned a lot from previous posts and this is the ...
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Uploading photos: Domain Model and Repository classes
In the database, I have a table with name photographs with the following columns:
id
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Recode algorithm for merged cells on HTML table
Is there any way to improve this algorithm maybe making it so faster avoid using foreach? Maybe with a recursion?
The output of my algorithm is a table with 3 merged columns, each row will have its ...
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Classes, one responsibility principle and magic methods
I am currently building a small application that allows users to create a slideshow, each slideshow consisting of slides that are either videos or images. Although this will be relatively small at ...
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Another PHP login handler
I wrote this class to handle login sessions for a framework I'm writing for educational purposes.
My major areas of concern:
Style
I know my style is a little contrary to most coding conventions. ...
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Authentication check in index.php file
I am aware that this code is vulnerable for SQL injections, but I don't know how to avoid it.
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PHP login based on a password parameter
I'm learning PHP now, and I'm trying to find out whether or not the following code structure has any faults:
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Hopefully secure post love counter
Is my nonce implementation secure? I'm trying to learn security on wordpress->ajax (and later woocommerce) and with wp_create_nonce. After much struggling I managed ...
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Recursive comment function echoes HTML inside function
To display comments recursively I'm using this:
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Sanitization and phpmailer security
I'm trying to set up a contact form using phpmailer. Are there any security holes in my code? I want to be sure as I feel there might be some kinda exploit I may not be aware of.
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Wrapper class for PHPMailer
Is this a right way to use/implement an external library into a project? If it's not how do you do it?
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MySQL Prepared Statement - Combinging 3 seperate statements in to 1 statement
I'm currently learning MySQL about prepared statements and I was wondering if this code I've written is the most efficient way.
The process:
There's a query that checks a table called 'websites' ...
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Tiny function to write array or string to a file for testing with MVC, Ajax, etc
This might not even warrant posting here, but I"m enjoying it and thought I would share.
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Handle data insertion after validation
I have an application that has a form. Validation and data insertion works fine. However, it bulks out my controller. I've always been told skinny controllers.
For example:
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Web page to add a notice, with some validation
I'm displaying multiple queries and if statements. In the if statement, it increments ...
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RGB <-> HSL converter + hue shifting
My input is basically a .png image from the img/ directory (I figured out that I should parse it, because there is an exploit ...
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Dissecting URLs
For the request object in my PHP application, I need to dissect the URL and assign its components to my class attributes (module, controller, method and the rest are parameters). Currently, I'm doing ...
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Node.js and Redis based chat application
I have been worked on creating a chat tool similar to vk.com. Right now I have done a simple chat which requires only authentication via a PHP website and everyone can chat with each other. I used the ...
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Login/registration part of an Android application
I made some PHP files for the login/registration part of my Android application and I would like to know if it can be made safer.
config.php:
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Comparing two images in two ways
I would like to know if the context of the compare is just an if-else structure and not how the whole entity/interface structure ...
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Registration and Login System for Application
I am developing a social platform and currently just completed the registration and login PHP pages. The application is an android application
that authenticates against a MySQL DB. I am seeking ...
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Monkey patch allowing virtual controller methods in PHP MVC application
I'm in the process of building a soon to be opensource CMS. 100% MVC. The basic idea is that a plugin should be able to add pages (read: methods) to a given controller, without needing to instantiate ...
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Separate model from DB mapper (entity manager)
I've read that it is good to separate model from DB mapper (entity manager) (but at the end, it is perhaps personal - just a matter of opinion). Anyway, if I understood correctly, I should not have ...
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A wrapper class for Telegram bot API in PHP
I wrote a wrapper class in PHP to use Telegram bot API. What do you think about it?
I used this class in some projects and it doesn't have any problem but I want to know if it is optimized?
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PDO - configuration, database connection & and using
I'm currently reading a book and watching some tutorials about PHP with MySQL (PDO), but it is not clear where to put certain things - where to put some code, should I put the connection to the ...
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Using an instance of PDO class as global variable inside 'query' methods
I have one PHP file named database.php:
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Creating new PHP pages (pagination)
I have a MySQL database, with a table called articles. There is a column in articles for its id, name, ...
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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 ...
