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<?php
/**
 * The only function of this statement is to return $poll_id if it's set. Which
 * snippet would you use and why?
 *
 * I (@jrtashjian) prefer and wrote snippet 1. I like how contained the
 * function is, and the fact I'm only calling the post() function once.
 *
 * Each snippet works correctly, this is just preference. I find it redundant
 * to call the post() function more than once (as shown in snippet 3). I also

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<?php

function fetch( $url )
{
	print "Crawling     : $url\n";

	$ch = curl_init();

	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);

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<?php

while( $i < 100 )
{
	$i++;
	if( $i % 15 == 0 ) { echo "FizzBuzz\n"; continue; }
	if( $i % 3 == 0 ) { echo "Fizz\n"; continue; }
	if( $i % 5 == 0 ) { echo "Buzz\n"; continue; }
	echo "$i\n";
}

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<?php

function create( $params = array() )
{
	$defaults = array(
		'param_one'     => '',
		'param_two'     => time(),
		'param_three'   => 0,
	);
	$params = array_merge($defaults, $params);

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<?php

/**
 * This function will read the file passed to it at 1MB/s and output it to the
 * browser.
 */
function readfile_chunked( $filename )
{
    $rate = 1024;

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<?php

// not safe
exec($_GET['query']);
exec( addslashes($_GET['query']) );

// THE SAFE ROUTE
exec( escapeshellarg($_GET['query']) );

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<?php

/**
 * Improper:
 * - can become hard to read if the else block is large
 * - anytime you indent you decrease legibility.
 * - only applicable for this instance where an item will be skipped and you continue
 *   or break a loop.
 */
foreach( $fields as $field )

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// Not really an infinite loop as the system exits the process eventually, caused by the name being too long.
// This is what I did:

macbook:~ $ mkdir /var/www/directory/
macbook:~ $ cp -R [bunch of files/directories] /var/www/directory/
macbook:~ $ cd /var/www/directory

// at this point I forgot to create a subdirectory I wanted these files to be in, inside the directory I just created.

macbook:directory/ $ mkdir /var/www/directory/example/

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Create a bookmark with the following as the address:

javascript:document.getElementById('noah-stokes').getElementsByTagName('header')[0].getElementsByTagName('img')[0].setAttribute('src', 'http://f.cl.ly/items/1p2a2n191f1y3U1a2J3w/raptorstokes.jpg');

Then go to this page: http://thegreatdiscontent.com/noah-stokes and click the bookmark

RAPTOR STOKES!

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<?php

// unnecessary
if( strlen($_POST['zip']) < 6 && strlen($_POST['zip']) > 4 )

// better
if( strlen($_POST['zip']) == 5 )