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Best way to validate source of API request

I am trying to develop a PHP RESTful web service. What is the best way to securely validate the source of request? Firewall is an option but I want to do some application level validation.

Keep leading zeros with fgetcsv in PHP

I’m reading a .csv file (I have no control of the format of the file) and I’m trying to keep the leading zeros for the data in the resulting array. For instance, the .csv file has “0615” in …

Understanding ‘parse_str’ in PHP

I’m a PHP newbie trying to find a way to use parse_str to parse a number of URLs from a database (note: not from the request, they are already stored in a database, don’t ask… so _GET won’t work) So I’m trying this: Please note that here I am just supplying an example URL, in the…

php how to store and read json data via mysql?

php how to store and read json data via mysql? then, how to update data value? read out the data, then insert it with an json_encode and decode process, or only easy way update? then insert another change to [{“id”: “1”, “value”: “yes”},{“id”: &#8220…