PHP Programming Tips

Templates and ready made Apps on the Web (Part 2)

There are a lot of programmers who share code and sample applications which you can use for free (provided you clear it up first) but for budding programmers, they’re all there for the taking. Sites like <a href=”http://websitetips.com/php/”>websitetips.com</a>, <a href=”http://www.smartwebby.com/PHP/default.asp”>Smartwebby.com</a> and many other blogs and help sites allows access to tips from programmers like you making it a pleasant experience altogether. Can’t find a question, post questions to the many forums and you’ll get help from others in no time, you might even get help from the guru’s themselves who made the phenomenon that is PHP possible for all of us to use.

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Templates and ready made Apps on the Web (Part 1)

Thanks to the basic foundation on which PHP is founded on, the language being free of all legalities and other stuff that makes deployment of other languages on the many platforms quite expensive. But the many people who makeup the PHP community are not ones who keep knowledge to themselves for there are tons of free pre-made templates for applications and processes on the web available for programmers from all skill levels. They make it fun and easy to learn the language in no time and the community fosters growth to all of those who benefit from the use of PHP. Search online for help and you will surely get it in the form of forums and other helpful articles.

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Galileo – Soon to Grace PHP

Galileo, an open-source framework that was developed by the Eclipse Foundation and sponsored by IBM is set for launch tomorrow. Hailed as one of the newest innovations to the development and deployment of open-sourced projects that is becoming more and more prominent with the internet of today. Eclipse is a non-profit organization that manages and maintains the many projects they are involved in, making them one of the biggest supporters of the open-source community. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Alarming Security Gaps

PHP being the most used scripting language for deploying web pages is under a lot of scrutiny as well as the many projects that used it as framework. One of these is WordPress which has suffered a lot of malicious attacks in the form of code insertion and comments spamming which is intended to influence adSense ratings or ranking to promote malicious sites to boost rankings. This promotes them without the owner’s knowledge which is more the norm for blogs seldom get administered properly. Read the rest of this entry »

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Smarty – Template Easy

Formatting is one of the hardest tasks to do with respect to cross-platform and scripting programs/pages. Smarty, one of the many PHP advocates has a complete line of products, from community-based ones to those aimed at more commercial purposes enabling the development of enterprise applications over the internet that are secure and powerful. Below, we see a sample of the use of their formatting, using their libraries that have been released to the many PHP users as their contribution to the community. Read the rest of this entry »

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PHP – Patching up the Mess

The world’s most used scripting language for web page development is constantly under attack from many threats that continue to wage war against the many security holes that have been left by developers and programmers the world over. Programmers and developers are being blamed for most of the many security holes that have since been addressed yet not applied to existing deployments/projects in terms of updating codes and other plug-ins and scripts. Many problems have indeed been addressed with the release of new and improved versions of the scripting language and the many tools that are now available for use. Read the rest of this entry »

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Of image and file sizes

One of the things that annoy many people are pages that load slowly. A lot of times, this happens simply because the PHP programmer did not pay enough attention to the file sizes and image sizes he or she put into the page. It naturally follows that larger files and larger images WILL definitely load slower.

We’re not telling you to reduce your file and image sizes to oblivion, but just enough so that it doesn’t weigh down you page when you or somebody else loads it. And remember, not everyone has a fast internet connection, and while your lightning speed connection might be able to handle the load, others’ might not be the same. You might as well put a big disclaimer on your page that says “Visitors with slow internet connections are NOT welcome.”

It’s a very small thing, but it goes a long way.

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PHP Development Tools Released

The PHP community has again gotten a boost with the announcement that Eclipse is set to release their much loved PHP Development tools later this month. The developer tools included in the release is set to again make the lives of PHP developers a whole lot easier and has been since they released the last version (1.0) in 2007. The new release features a new and improved dynamic language toolkit that gives PHP more bite compared to its older counterpart. It is also designed to work with Java so any developed projects can easily be imported into the dynamic language toolkit. Better code testing tools allows faster error checking making development faster and testing is a breeze with better functionality making PHP easier to use and deploy. With this, the PHP community is set to get a boost and life would be a little bit easier in the wild that is the internet where all is supposed to work.

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安全なPHPプログラムを書く

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PHPプログラミングはプログラミングが簡単な言語として書かれました。 安全志向のプログラミングとは正反対でした。 4.1バージョンまではそうでした。 Phpの人気が短期間に伸びたのは疑いの余地がありません。 しかし一方、非常に低質なスクリプトが多数作成されたことも確かです。そして膨大の数のプログラマーにプログラミングの安全面を軽視する考え方を植えつけたのです。この主な理由として、PHPが入力データを自動的にスクリプト変数に変換するまたはPHPを通してそれを可能にすることが挙げられます。PHP4.2 ではこのタイプの操作は初期設定で無効にされています。世界中の何千というスクリプトが破られました。このディレンマのため、プログラマーはもっと安全なコードを作成するよう強いられたのです。破られるスクリプトを作成した。以前は強力に反対されていましたが、彼らはそれを賢い動きとして見たのです。

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Change your PHP to 5.2.8. now

As the year 2008 is about to go to 2009, so should be the ever-updating PHP versions:

Due to a security bug found in the PHP 5.2.7 release, it has been removed from distribution. The bug affects configurations where magic_quotes_gpc is enabled, because it remains off even when set to on. In the meantime, use PHP 5.2.6 until PHP 5.2.8 is later released.

The PHP Development Team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.8. This release addresses a regression introduced by 5.2.7 in regard to the magic_quotes functionality, which was broken by an incorrect fix to the filter extension. All users who have upgraded to 5.2.7 are encouraged to upgrade to this release. Alternatively you can apply a work-around for the bug by changing “filter.default_flags=0″ in php.ini.

Time to update it and update it soon!

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