Introduction to Statistical Charting Using PHP

David’s back this month to show us how to use PHP, MySQL, andJpGraph to calulate and display some basic statistics. The conceptsintroduced here have applications in areas such as monitoring yourwebsite’s hits, as well as anticipating future hardwareneeds.—by David Jorm

Secure PHP Programming: Foiling Cross-Site Attacks

Following on the heals of David Jorm’s general securityarticle last month, Chris Shiflett explores in depth the topics ofcross-site scripting (XSS) and cross-site request forging (CSRF).He explains exactly what these two vulnerabilities are, how theycan be exploited, and most importantly how they can beavoided.—by Chris Shiflett

Migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL, often known simply as the “other open-sourcedatabase” still offers some significant enterprise-level advantagesover the very quick MySQL when developing moredata-intensive applications.  Rick Morris examines the reasonsfor migrating to PostgreSQL, as well as some of the hurdles thatyou might encounter along the way.—by Rick Morris

Using the GD Library with PHP

GD is–in a word–amazing. The abilities it offers developersrange from simple multi-format graphic creation to dynamicre-sizing and re-sampling of images to pixel-by-pixel colormodifications. Join Pavel Koutny as he takes you on a whirlwindtour of GD. You’ll come out feeling like an old pro.—by Pavel Koutny

Introduction to the Calendar Module

As one of the more obscure extensions, PHP’s Calendarextension doesn’t get much attention. Join Eric Brown as heexplains this extension, using it to create a dynamic eventcalendar that seamlessly uses both Hebrew and Gregorian calendarformats.—by Eric Brown

Integrating PHP Into Delphi Applications

As a tool for rapid desktop application development, Delphiis definitely a leader. Imagine, then, the power to be had byintegrating the PHP engine into your Delphi applications. TobyAllen takes us through this Delphi component, and explains how touse PHP in a new and very exciting way.—by Toby Allen