How many times have we heard about security issues in PHP applications stemming from unescaped GET and POST parameters? Proper escaping of input is a perennial problem with web development in general, and for whatever reason PHP seems to have had more than its fair share of bad publicity on this front.

Ralph Schindler has started the ball rolling on requirements for Zend Db for Zend Framework 2.0.  He announced on the ZF Contributors mailing list:   Requirements have been solicited from both community members in various conversations, as well as looking through the issue tracker for feature requests that have been on the backlog due to […]

What could be simpler than a string? And yet strings tend to get tied up and knotted, and give us a hell of a time… specially when in a hurry. They may seem sleek, clean and simple, but ugly hairy beasts hide in the shadows…

Participation in the open source community and projects can really give a boost to your career.

Ok, after my last post on using the Bing Search Wrapper for handing 404 errors in WordPress I had several people tell me that while they liked the idea, they didn’t want to install WordPress just so they can have intelligent 404 errors. Several other people pinged me and suggested a way that you could […]

As PHP turns fifteen, Marco takes a look forward at what our past means.

In part 1, we discussed how to use the new Flash Builder 4 Data Connection Wizard to connect to a PHP API. We used FB4’s prototyping feature to build a simple class that allows us to read/write users from a WordPress user list. In part 2, we discussed how to use that data connection to […]

If I want to use PHP 5.3 right now on my development box or server, which platform should I choose?

A good way to measure the health of any given thing is to measure its activity (except bridges… I tend to get nervous when bridges start moving on their own). In this sense, PHP is very much alive and the community is showing it off with two fantastic events this fall that will light up Europe in a frenzy knowledge exchange and PHP-related festivities!

Many are eagerly anticipating the next major version of Zend Framework. Several announcements were made this week thats shed further light on the new release, with an appeal for developers to pitch in and help with the project.