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by Peter McNulty - 2005-02-06
Cookies enabled web developers to produce more usable sites, by allowing temporary storage of commonly used information by the user. This can be beneficial in shopping carts, user logon systems and general site usage. Read on to find out how to use cookies and how to implement a simple user logon system.
by Peter McNulty - 2005-01-26
A contact form or an email form is often a critical part of a website, in allowing users to contact you regarding one or more issues. This article aims to help you produce a secure contact form, and at the same time, try to reduce the amount of spam you will receive from it.
by Peter McNulty - 2005-01-15
It is quite common to have the need to password protect a certain file or a set of files, in order to prevent unauthorized access to those files. There are many different alternatives on how to do this including, sessions, cookies, JavaScript and HTTP authentication. Peter shows you how to implement simple HTTP authentication.
by Peter McNulty - 2005-01-08
Nowadays, PHP programmers generally use databases such as MySQL to do everything, however, every programmer should at least know the basics of reading and writing to files - that IS what a database does. Come read an all you need to know introduction to file handling.
Lastest News
PHP 5.2 released
by PHPNerds - November 19, 2006 @ 7:58 am
PHP 5.2 was released on the 2nd of November. Some of the new features were: Input filtering extension was added and enabled by default, JSON extension was added and enabled by default and ZIP extension for creating and editing zip files was introduced.
PHP 4.4.4 and 5.1.5 Released
by PHPNerds - August 21, 2006 @ 3:05 am
The newly released versions of PHP fix a couple of security issues discovered since PHP 5.1.4 and 4.4.3.
These include the following: - Added missing safe_mode/open_basedir checks inside the error_log(), file_exists(), imap_open() and imap_reopen() functions. - Fixed overflows inside str_repeat() and wordwrap() functions on 64bit systems. - Fixed possible open_basedir/safe_mode bypass in cURL extension and on PHP 5.1.5 with realpath cache. - Fixed overflow in GD extension on invalid GIF images. - Fixed a buffer overflow inside sscanf() function. - Fixed an out of bounds read inside stripos() function. - Fixed memory_limit restriction on 64 bit system. "www.php.net" Code Challenge 2006
by PHPNerds - July 9, 2006 @ 5:49 am
O'Reilly and Fachverlag für Computerwissen is hosting an open source programming contest called "Code Challenge 2006" with sponsored prized.
You are asked to program one or many of the following tools: Webcalendar, Wikipodcast or Captcha. The contest is closed on August 15. More details here. Eclipse, Zend and IBM announce a new PHP IDE Project
by PHPNerds - April 26, 2006 @ 4:19 pm
This is great news as Eclipse is considered by many as the best IDE available.
It will deliver a PHP Integrated Development Environment framework for the Eclipse Platform and will encompass the development components necessary to develop PHP-based web applications and will leverage the existing Eclipse Web Tools Project. The project will be an initial set of Eclipse plug-ins that will add PHP capabilities to Eclipse and will provide extension points to further extend the functionality of the project. The project will be composed of a set of extensible features covering the development life cycle including functionality that deals with developing, deploying, documenting and debugging PHP-based applications. "www.eclipse.org" |
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