PHP Security Blog: The Suhosin Patch, File Uploads, and Stealth Mode
On the PHP Security Blog, there's two new posts concerning their Suhosin patch for PHP - one talking about a remote code execution vulnerability found in the uploadprogressmeter extension (which as...
View ArticlePHP 10.0 Blog: Production mode
In an effort to get some thought going about ways to encourage security in PHP applications, Stas has posted an idea about a simplified php.ini setting - production=On. His idea is that, with this...
View ArticleTobias Schlitt's Blog: Taint mode for PHP?
Tobias Schlitt has a great (long) post responding to a proposal made on the php.internals mailing list for the inclusion of "taint mode" in upcoming PHP versions. Tobias starts with an overview of...
View ArticleAndrei Zmievski's Blog: 50% There
Andrei Zmievski has posted an encouraging note on his blog about the progress of PHP6 concerning the number of functions that have been correctly converted to support Unicode. Well, PHP boys and...
View ArticleJob Posting: MODE Visual Seeks PHP Developer (Charlotte, NC)
Company MODE Visual Location Charlotte, NC Title Web Developer Summary We're looking for a full-time onsite Web Developer with a focus in PHP. Alongside our Director of Technology, you will be driving...
View ArticleMike Lively's Blog: Late Static Binding (LSB) forward_static_call()
On his blog, Mike Lively has posted a look at some of the work he's been doing on patches for the late static binding functionality to be included in PHP, including an example of the updates in...
View ArticleDevShed: Null and Empty Strings
On DevShed today, there's a new tutorial posted looking at two things that can cause headaches for PHP developers (especially when evaluating and comparing values) - nulls and empty strings. Anyone...
View ArticleJohannes Schlüter's Blog: Testing persistent connection and...
In this recent post to his blog Johannes Schlüter he talks about a way that he's come up with to test functionality that uses persistent connections (and an module he created to help). In a few rare...
View ArticleRob Allen: Implementing a ZF2 development mode
Rob Allen has shared a method he's found for implementing a Zend Framework v2 in development mode, more specifically for an Apigility installation. One feature that piqued my interested in the...
View ArticleSameer Borate: Calculating descriptive statistics in MySQL
Sameer Borate has shared some examples of how to generate some meaningful statistics about the contents of your database in a new post to his site today. Descriptive statistics can be quite useful for...
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