Questions tagged [php]
PHP is a widely-used, general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development.
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Add a Custom Billing Field to WooCommerce Checkout, Order Meta, and User Meta
I have implemented a custom WooCommerce checkout field to collect a Tax Exempt Number in the billing section. This field's value is stored in the user meta upon checkout to facilitate future orders.
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we are facing a time out error ... only have 9 seconds to complete the process [closed]
Given constraints :
1 <= keys[i] <= 2.5 * 10^13
Minimum value will be 1
Maximum value will be 25,000,000,000,000
Sample 1
Given array of n numbers.
[100, 15, 30, 10]
I need to find the all ...
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Evaluating Extended Operating Hours Past Midnight Across Timezones in PHP
I am working on a project that involves tracking the operating hours of businesses across different timezones. Some of these businesses operate past midnight, and to accommodate this, operating hours ...
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Simplified VarDumper in PHP
I wrote a simplified VarDumper and wanted to get feedback on areas I can improve on my code. My biggest area of concern is the captureContext method making sure I get the correct file and line ...
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Get visitor current city via API or display the city the user searched for
I am writing a simple PHP script to display all my available stores in google map. If the user just came in, I need to set the user current city as default city using geolocation (3rd party); ...
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Telegram YouTube upload video notification Bot
I made a simple script that notifies a Telegram Channel when a new youtube video is uploaded upon a YouTube channel:
index.php
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Sending only modified data from a table to the backend as form data
The frontend has a table with hundreds of rows. Each row consists of different inputs (text, file, ...
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Is showing an HTML file that the client uploads safe?
I have created two pages (one straight HTML, the other PHP) to show an HTML file in the context of my server. The reason for this is simply to get access to / the styles in the CSS spreadsheets - not ...
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PHP Parser and converter - SOLID and DRY
I am working on a PHP application that transforms data from the input CSV (JSON, TXT, or XML) into an output CSV (JSON or database, for example).
The output format differs from the input: some columns ...
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Justify Text on Image GD PHP
we are trying to justify a long text into a image and we need to justify it. We have solved the problem with this function, but it's too heavy and takes a long time to process the text justification. ...
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Sanitize URL string for Insertion Upon DB table via Eloquent model
In my case I am saving a URL into my database via Eloquent Model:
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PHP WordPress Code - Pricelist Template - refactored
I've been working on a refactoring my old WordPress pricing page template and would appreciate feedback on the code structure, organization, and any potential improvements. The template is used to ...
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Migrating configuration method
I have a legacy PHP project using a self-styled configuration file (named globals.inc.php) which is generated by build scripts based on a template included in the ...
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PHP WordPress Code - Pricelist Template
I've been working on a WordPress pricing page template and would appreciate feedback on the code structure, organization, and any potential improvements. The template is used to display a pricing list ...
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A simple PHP login form with PDO
I wrote a simple PHP login form for a website. It has an initialization script, as well as a form to allow a user to login, plus a link to log the user out after logging in.
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Rails session after migrate from PHP (improved)
previusly I make a post for Session Logic for User Verification in Rails Migration.
Now the improvement version following advice of the comments is here.
The problem was the use of `` for executing in ...
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Session Logic for User Verification in Rails Migration
This is a logic to create sessions on RoR 7.1.2 based on the last version of the website which was in vanilla PHP, with the upgrade I have to deal with the users that were already signed up but not ...
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Handling large amount of traits and properties in classes
I've got an open-source project that I've been working on for a while, and I'm looking for advice on handling large classes. It's a Laravel 10+ package for building forms, and everything works fine, ...
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A PHP class for the common database operations?
I'm a CS undergrad, so I don't have much experience. But while coding vanilla PHP projects, I found that I was repeating myself a lot with the CRUD operations. So overtime, I developed a single file ...
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A very simple router for a PHP application
/.htaccess
ErrorDocument 404 /inc/index.php
ErrorDocument 500 /inc/index.php
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ^([a-z_-]+)$ index.php?page=$1 [L]
/index.php
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Production-Readiness Advice for Laravel/ PayPal Integration
I am currently working on integrating PayPal with my Laravel application, and it's my first time incorporating PayPal for production use. I have written the following code and would greatly appreciate ...
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Apply placeholders to an array in a loop for pdo statements for search functions with unknown numbers of keywords
I'm a newbie to PHP and other programming for that matter.
I'm doing this simply to learn. Figured the code could be used to search through a police database or something.
The statements are Microsoft ...
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PHP implementing Dependency Injection
I'm trying to implement Dependency Injection in one of my projects. It's a project that when I started I didn't had much experience with sotware development, but now I feel like it's time to do a bit ...
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Laravel seeder for email template settings
This is my Laravel seeder for two database tables. I need to make this seeder more efficient and optimized. How can this be achieved? I would appreciate some tips.
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Querying for vendors and categories
I'm looking for pointers on the best way to optimize my code below. The query is designed to pull for a vendor database in a separate SQL server table that I built a connection to in my wordpress site....
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PHP CSV Parser: Separation of concerns and SOLID principles
I implemented a CSV Parser with Separation of concerns and SOLID principles in mind.
Does that code match the principles?
Here a sample data (CSV):
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Force free shipping for WooCommerce Subscription recurring orders only
I'm using WooCommerce Subscriptions and here's what I want to do:
Use free shipping for all recurring orders even if the minimum isn’t met.
Get rid of any other free shipping choices (like free ...
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WordPress Plugin for WebP/AVIF Image Conversion
I'm looking for feedback on a WordPress plugin I developed for automatically converting images to WebP and AVIF formats. The goal is to optimize image loading performance.
The plugin has the following ...
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Four functions to measure and compare months of duration from one or two dates
I decided to write a few related examples of code, and honestly I don't know if I am overthinking, or just trying to find what is that right way to write functions and how to use them, so that ...
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PHP login codes suggestions
Now i have a fully functional PHP codes for login and registeration i was wondering if anyone could offer improvements to the code
The code:
Config.php:
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Follow up to Validation Script in PHP
So I've implemented the suggestions in Original question
And now my code looks like this:
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PHP Validation script
The code below is modified slightly from the code in this previous post.
I believe the code below could be improved and more secured but i don't know how so someone please show me how an improved ...
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Parsing gateway ip from `/proc/net/route` in a docker container
In try to replicate the outcome of the following command sequence using php:
netstat -rn | grep "^0.0.0.0 " | cut -d " " -f10
I did this using ...
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SQL & PHP login method
My code is working however it seems to be using old outdated php version so less secure and I'm still new to programming so I'd be more than thankful if someone shows me how an improved updated and ...
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Validating an input in a chatbot
Is this a good approach for validating user input in a chatbot? I am writing an autoposter telegram bot in PHP using the php-telegram-bot library (by Longman). I have a Task class that stores ...
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Best Practices for PHP PDO Pagination with Search Functionality
I'm working on implementing a pagination system with search functionality using PHP and PDO. The code I've written seems to work, but I want to ensure that I'm following best practices and avoiding ...
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Count unique visitor using IP address and make sure that 24 hours has passed before incrementing the counter
I've created a unique page counter using a PHP script. Pages could be videos, images, publications, etc.
Every time a new user views a page, I record the entry and increment the view counter.
I cannot ...
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Implentation of Data Access Object Pattern
I'm tried to implement the Data Access Object Pattern. I have a base abstract class that is then extended for a specific table. I tried following some guides, but couldn't find a lot of info on this ...
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List of URLs to "convert" to other URLs
I have certain URLs which I want to convert to another, for example,
anything that starts with /some/url/:
/some/url/a/b/, ...
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How can I make my image upload more secure?
I gathered a lot of information in order to try to make my code as secure as possible, and I would like to know what I can do to improve more its security. (Sorry for my english if it's bad)
What did ...
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Is overloading a database object a bad practice?
I created the below class as a convenient way to create instances of PDO that I then inject into the classes that need access to my database. Instead of doing ...
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Woocommerce send unique pdf
I have developed a code to send tickets (PDF files) of a specific product in the order confirmation. I place the PDFs in a folder (i.e. Tickets) on the server after the purchase is completed. The code ...
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jQuery + PHP Form Submit and Refresh
Code below successfully processes and submits data to database. Is there anything else that needs to be included / considered?
PHP (note-process.php):
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Manually inserting or updating a row with timestamps, without Eloquent
I need to insert or update a row that has created_at and last_update timestamps.
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PHP MySQLi Wrapper Class For API
I've never had my code reviewed before, so I am taking this opportunity to see what can be improved with my coding style. I am still somewhat "new" to PHP, in the sense that I'm an old dog ...
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Boolean Value Object
Purpose:
I want to accept the value of a checkbox or database field and make a Value Object out of it. The input could be any of y, Y, n, N, Yes, No, yes, no, 1, 0, true, false, or NULL.
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PHP Class to render HTML div styled tables v2 [reviewed by me]
After my previous question I made several changes and came up with this. Remember: I wrote this for PHP 7.0.33. I'm aware I should upgrade, save the advice :)
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PHP pagination function
After reviewing my previous question I came up with this pagination function. On my first approach I wrote a class thinking about IDE's code assist and the review wasn't positive. In this function I ...
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PHP Class to render HTML div styled tables v1
This class aims to render an HTML compliant div styled table. I added a help() method that provides usage and styling in a more user-friendly way. Besides the ...
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php tmpdir() alternative to tmpfile()
tmpfile() creates a temporary file which is automatically deleted when php exit. I wanted the same for directories, came up with:
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