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We (here at WPShout) are thinking hard about making a complete paid course that gets anyone interested in WordPress development totally up to speed on PHP. And so far on the site, we’ve covered to the most important PHP data types, objects and arrays.But I realized, while considering this course idea, that we’ve never really covered the more simple or “primitive” “scalar” data types the language has. Nor have we really talked in much detail about what PHP data types are.A lot of programmers (myself included) find it easy to take these things for granted. But if you’re completely new to this, things that other people find obvious will trip you up from time to time, and you’ll find it hard to ask a presumptuous person about the details. So to be less presumptuous, we’ll spend this text covering PHP’s data types in-depth.What are PHP Data Types Anyway?Generically the term “types” is used when talking about PHP or … [Read more...] about A Complete Guide to PHP Data Types: Numbers, Booleans, Strings, & More

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Sarah Gooding April 3, 2019 0 Over the weekend, Pipdig, a small commercial theme company, has been at the center of a scandal after multiple reports exposed a litany of unethical code additions to its Pipdig Power Pack (P3) plugin. On Friday, March 29, Wordfence threat analyst Mikey Veenstra published a report with code examples of the backdoors Pipdig built into their plugin, along with some unsavory and questionable additions to the code. “We have confirmed that the plugin, Pipdig Power Pack (or P3), contains code which has been obfuscated with misleading variable names, function names, and comments in order to hide these capabilities,” Veenstra said. These include an unauthenticated password reset to a hard-coded string, which was deliberately obscured with code comments indicating it was added to “check for new social channels to add to navbar.” Veenstra also demonstrated how the plugin contained code for an unauthenticated database deletion, … [Read more...] about Pipdig Updates P3 Plugin after Reports Expose Vendor Backdoors, Built-in Kill Switch, and Malicious DDoS Code

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This is a guest post by Jimmy Rodela, a freelance writer and the owner of the GuildofBloggers.com. Old school businesses ran on personalized service. When a customer would come in, the owner would greet them with a vibrant “Hi Joe” or a “Hi Helen.” The customer’s attitude would then perk up, even if they were having a bad day. According to a brain study performed by Dennis Carmody and Michael Lewis, people like hearing their own name… a lot! So, is personalization the key to your Ecommerce success? Can you actually reference your customers by their names and get the same response? Yes! If you haven’t started incorporating personalization into your visitors’ experience, your visitors could be ignoring your marketing, therefore, you lose the opportunity to close them as paying customers. In fact, according to Matt Janaway, CEO of Marketing Labs, “Personalization is powerful. Not only does it encourage relationship building between … [Read more...] about Why Personalization is Key to Your Ecommerce Success

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