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Over the years I’ve come across some useful tricks in PHP that are not obvious, but are worth mentioning. This is not meant to be a comprehensive list of all the useful tricks that you can do with PHP. 1. Count Characters in a String To do this, I’ve usually just used the function strlen(). [...] Security expert Andreas Bogk warns that, despite recent PHP improvements, the session IDs of users who are logged into PHP applications remain guessable. Upon close examination, the alleged improvements display frightening weaknesses. PHP assigns a session ID in order to allow individual page calls to be allocated to a specific logged-in user. To prevent attackers [...] The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.2. This is a maintenance release in the 5.3 series, which includes a large number of bug fixes. Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.2: Improved LCG entropy. (Rasmus, Samy Kamkar) Fixed safe_mode validation inside tempnam() when the directory path does not [...] An update which fixes around 40 bugs is available for the PHP 5.2 development branch. Version 5.2.13 comes highly recommended for all PHP 5.2.x users, as it includes a number of security-related fixes. These include a bug when validating the safe_mode configuration variable in the tempnam() function which arises when the path does not end [...] New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.12. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.2.x branch with over 60 bug fixes, some of which are security related. All users of PHP 5.2 are encouraged to upgrade to this release. Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP [...] New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.3.1. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.3.x branch with over 100 bug fixes, some of which are security related. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release. Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.1: [...] Back in 2005, I wrote a story for InternetNews.com where I wrote that I expected PHP 6 to be out in 2006. Here we are three years later and guess what? No PHP 6. Back in 2005, the promise of PHP 6 was to be the next big thing for the open source dynamic language. [...] New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.11. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.2.x branch with over 75 bug fixes, some of which are security related. All users of PHP 5.2 are encouraged to upgrade to this release. Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP [...] Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. If you are running a webserver you might have faced the problem I’ve been installing the LAMP stack on an Ubuntu based server for a client. They rely on the version of LibGD that’s bundled with PHP5. This version includes certain functions including imagerotate() and others. LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 9.04 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support. Zend Technologies has announced the latest version of its open-source framework for PHP, offering improved support for Microsoft and Novell environments. The changes are part of what Zend called more of a business focus, which encompasses updates to help those building and plumbing web services and enterprise applications into PHP. The PHP specialist is also [...] This tutorial covers the setup of PHP 5.3.0/Lighttpd on Debian (lenny) with imap, mysql, mysqli, sqlite3, ImageMagick and mycrypt support. Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, SSI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, Virtual hosts, Authentication, on the fly encoding, Load Balancing, Apache compatible log files, Data Base Balancing, Reverse HTTP Proxy, Traffic Shaper, Video Streaming and much more. Hello! The PHP Development Team would like to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes. Release Announcement: http://www.php.net/release/5_3_0.php Downloads: http://php.net/downloads.php#v5.3.0 Changelog: http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.0 regards, Johannes and Lukas |
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