Questions tagged [php]
PHP is a widely-used, general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development.
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A create gateway controller in Laravel
In my app users can create and soft-delete gateways something like Paypal. Users of a website can connect to the gateway and make payments.
I've written the logic in a transaction also locking a ...
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Serve rescaled jpg images on demand with myphoto!500.jpg syntax (here 500px-width rescaled)
On web pages, obviously we cannot serve 4000x4000px photos and just let CSS do the resizing: it would be too slow for end users and too bandwidth-consuming for the server.
So it's important to rescale ...
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Passky Password Manager router with authentication and validation guards
I have a long switch statement and it would be great if someone know how to make it cleaner.
Code is available on Github: https://github.com/Rabbit-Company/Passky-Server/blob/main/php/index.php
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Choose meals for a week
I've built this complex form or at least what I would consider a complex form and it feels really dirty. It felt dirty while I was programming it but I wanted to get it working and then go back and ...
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Generate HTML select tag and options using a text file having list of countries
The code below will generate an HTML select tag and options using a text file having list of countries. If the file doesn't exist or contains only empty / white space lines then generate an input box ...
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Wordpress Custom Block that sources files from the theme images directory
The Goal
Current PHP version 7.3.5
The block will have a function that sources a defined set of illustrations that are stored in {themeName}/images/illustrations. ...
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query data from mapping name but use many memory
In my class the constructor queries data from the database. In the database there is a table containing more than 400k records.
After the query I tested memory size- it uses more than 10m++ bytes.
so ...
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Is my PHP login system following best practices? Is the code really OOP?
I'm learning about OOP and putting my knowledge into practice.
I created a login system in PHP, so I wish someone could tell me if I'm on the right track. I feel like I'm getting better at coding, but ...
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Handling Medium-like text editor output at backend
I'm a developer who has completed almost one year of full-stack development & learning. I published my very first package lately, and I don't know is my code good or bad. So I jumped down here.
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Recreating WP Columns Block - Columns Container Only
I have been working on recreating the WP columns block using server-side rendered blocks.
For the base creation of the block structure, I have used ...
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PHP search multiple filter inputs
Okay so I built this search page that searches for posts but my current code seems so bloated and inefficient.
My script(search page)
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remove ALL duplicate elements from an array
I have this code to remove duplicates (all occurrences) from an associative array, does PHP have methods to do this ? Or is there a way to improve the code ?
I looked for array_unique, array_search, ...
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PHP game - changing color of cells in a blue and white grid => updating groups of white cells that touch each other
My game is a grid in which you have to change cells color by clicking on them. When I generate a grid I have to know all the possible combinations of blue and white cells my game allows, to know the ...
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Custom Block with ACF in WordPress
I'm learning and want to improve as much as possible. In doing so I have written this custom block that has an image on one side and an inner block on the other. It's using ACF to get the variables ...
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Calling multiple ACF field - how do I write my code prettier?
Im using a bunch of ACF fields for my WooCommerce email templates and for this example Im calling these in my email_header template. Im using this with WPML, and need to call each language settings. ...
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Requiring query field to not be empty on search api
we have a RESTful API that includes an endpoint for search
apiserver/v5/search?q=[search text]
for any query, it passes it off to solr and returns the result like
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PHP blogging application with AJAX loading
I have been working on an online newspaper/blogging application with CodeIgniter 3.1.8 and Twitter Bootstrap 4.
The latest feature added is lazy loading of posts.
From the Static_model (...
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Instantiating classes in WordPress plugin
the last couple of weeks i have been working on my own WordPress plugin. I am trying to do a class based codebase.
My plugin works correctly, but i don't really know if this is the correct way to ...
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PHP object oriented programming
I'm trying to learn OOP with PHP (I know it's hard because It's not an OOP language). I'm rewriting my procedural code to OOP.Please provide any feedback on my code, naming and file/folder structure.
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Eloquent eager loading deep nested relation with "where" condition
is there a more elegant way to do what the code below does without use "foreach"?
I am trying to load answers from questions but only the answers that contains a direct relation with an ...
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Laravel CRUD Controller - code request
Here is my starting point for a laravel CRUD controller.
I would appreciate it if someone could do a review and show me how an experienced developer would approach this.
I do not want to progress with ...
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PHP fetch an automated email, parse text for specific data, store, send summary
I'm new here. I recently found myself in charge of a large PHP-based system. The guy that wrote it produced some of the worst code I've ever seen. I've never been in charge and have had the luxury of ...
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Prevent Column Name Collision
I have been working on a series of posts about a library to connect to databases but most of the scenarios I have to resort to some "JOIN" the problem arose when two or more tables had some ...
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Method in Laravel to give a JSON response indicating whether the user may edit
I'm working on creating code with a nice balance between concise and readable.
How would you improve this Laravel code block to make it more compact and readable?
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Displaying Submitted Links Securely On Your Pages
I wanted to allow my website visitors (any Tom, Dick & Harry) submit their links to my webpage for output on my page. I thought it's best to parse user submitted urls before echoing their ...
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URL & HTML encodings on pagination
I wrote this Pagination Section. It shows links to pages 123456789 and so on on SERP (Keyword Search Result Pages). Like you see on Google SERPs.
Even though they work, I'm not sure I finished them to ...
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PHP processed, HTML-CSS, CMS-agnostic, contact now panel
I develop a CMS-agnostic PHP formatted HTML-CSS "contact now" panel, sticky in the bottom of a website screen.
The code is tested and works as can be seen from the following image.
I ask a ...
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Find common timeslots for consecutive days
Imagine you want to reserve a classroom over several days. You get a schedule, from the school, telling you when a certain classroom is still free. To make it easy for your students, you want to ...
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Sort array of dates
I have this array with dates. All the dates are checked before creating the array with preg_match and check_dates.
GoodDates (
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'Lean controller'/'Business logic on service' and filtering, sorting, pagination methods on controllers
I'm currently reading about "Lean controllers"/"Business logic on services" and trying to refactor some legacy code. However I am struggling to apply what is taught in the ...
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Placing store and update logic in Laravel 8 form request
I want some opinions about my code that implements store and update for a Laravel 8 form request. The make function is for storing the data and the ...
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Scrape E-Mails using IMAP from cron
I have the following code which works great to do what it is meant to do. It scrapes the bodies of all e-mails in the inbox at an e-mail address using IMAP and retrieves the unique code sent inside ...
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Output results of a search for usage of a pardot-form
I'm always down to learn better ways of doing thing and I wanted to see if I can get an input from the community to see if there is a way that I can improve this function:
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Building a pre-loader for performance gains in Wordpress
As the title, I am building a pre-loader for Wordpress that will deliver performance boosts in loading, as well as metrics such as Google Page Speed.
Now, this is something that we do at work, and I ...
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PHP Group associative Array duplicates and make subarrays of different values
I have this type of table:
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Connect to MYSQL database in PHP with prepared statements
I have recently learned about using PDO. I created a db class which could handle common actions like create, update, delete and select. Is this method a correct way to connect to the database using ...
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Adjusting variables on change of status attribute of my Order Laravel model on the updated event in observer
I have an order model and a client model. A client has many orders, an order belongs to a single client.
In the client model I keep track of how much money a client paid (...
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Grab user info from database via exec
I'm using the following code to grab user info from my MySQL database via PHP by using exec to invoke a Python script.
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Login using two-factor authentication
I want to make the code below prettier but I don't know what to change and how to change. I know that the controller should be easy, delegating actions related to models or to services or something ...
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Create ZipArchive from a directory of files
I am trying to pack around 50 files from a folder to zip file using PHP ZipArchive. Actually, only at most five files are ever changing. Others remain same static files. Should I zip the folder for ...
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Image upload filter for PHP
I am trying to improve my file upload handler filter.
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Since any client-side validation is easily circumvented, there is none in this code, for ease of testing. Not even an ...
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backup file script in PHP
I'm learning PHP and try to write some scripts as I go along. I wrote this script and it worked. I would like to know if this script can be improved.
The purpose of the script below is to prompt the ...
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PHP File Upload Script
I've put together an example single file upload script that attempts to cover all the things PHP could check for prior to allowing a successful file upload. Is there anything else maybe now available ...
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Simple Vehicle speed representation [closed]
This code models two vehicle types, with a method to accept a string representing a boost to change speed.
How can I optimize performance in inheritance child class?
How can I reduce the code inside ...
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PHP SCRIPT OPTIMIZATION OF METHODS
Here is some php code which i think is optimized but still want to optimize it more but not sure how to do it.
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Copy images using curl to make API calls
I am a junior web developer currently doing my first internship and I had a lot of freedom to solve small problems the way I thought was best. (There aren't really any developers here so I am ...
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Check URL for keywords [closed]
I'm looking at improving my PHP knowledge and wondering if anybody has any tips on improving and optimising my function below?
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Simple web page to enhance browsing of IMSLP music collections
I'm building a simple webpage that allow users to find the intersection of different category lists on a wiki (imslp.org) since the site itself does not offer this functionality. I have a simple HTML ...
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OOP - Contact Form PHP Backend - Procedural to OOP - Dynamic MySQL Prepared Statement PHP
I just converted procedural code to OOP code. Is there any performance or security issue with this code or what should I consider further?
interface
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Pagination helper class
The most nauseous problem with pagination is the fact that you have to write two almost identical queries. For the various reasons I am not inclined to use the SQL-only way (such as ...
