DevShed: Reading, Writing and Creating Files in PHP
DevShed has a new tutorial posted today with a look at one of the more common tasks performed with PHP (second to generating web pages, of course) - working with files. It can be a little tricky for a...
View ArticleTurn of the Crank: PHP 5, Sqlite, and Windows
Sometimes, a technology sounds like a great, simple answer to all of your problems. That, however, was not the experience of this blogger when checking out SQLite on Windows. My first task at my new...
View ArticleRob Thompson's Blog: PHP and Solaris - getcwd() Behavior
Rob Thompson passed along some information that PHP users running on Solaris might want to check out - the slightly buggy behavior of the PHP getcwd function on the platform. Many functions within the...
View ArticleNessa's Blog: Working with Permissions in PHP
On her blog Nessa has a brief look at working with permissions with PHP via three functions - chown, chgrp and chmod. PHP uses the same command as *nix systems when dealing with changing permissions...
View ArticleJustin's Blog: How to secure your wordpress blog - part 2
Justin had written up a previous article with a few quick ways to secure your WordPress blog and he's come back with a few more helpful hints on how to keep you and your blog safe. The following is a...
View ArticleBrandon Savage's Blog: Controlling Access: Zend_Navigation and Zend_Acl
In the next part of his Zend_Navigation series Brandon Savage takes a look at integrating it with Zend_Acl to add permissions/roles into the mix, showing certain things for certain users. What happens...
View ArticleNETTUTS.com: How to Use CakePHP's Access Control Lists
On NETTUTS.com today there's a new detailed tutorial on how to use the access control list functionality that comes with the CakePHP framework. If you're building a CMS, you'll probably need different...
View ArticleDevShed: File Security and Resources with PHP
In the fourth part of their series looking at working with the filesystem in PHP, DevShed has posted a new tutorial focusing on security and permission handling for files/resources. These days,...
View ArticleNetTuts.com: Wrangling with the Facebook Graph API
On the NetTuts.com site today they have a (very complete) guide to help you wrangle the Facebook Graph API and make it useful for your application. It makes use of the official Facebook PHP SDK to...
View ArticleGonzalo Ayuso's Blog: How to protect from SQL Injection with PHP
In a recent post to his blog, Gonzalo Ayuso shares a few tips on preventing SQL injection attacks on your applications. Security is a part of our work as developers. We need to ensure our applications...
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