Posts marked with “php”
Analysis: Following Ruby Makes PHP Number Two
Experiments that question our conventions can help us understand those conventions better.
PHP 5.3.3 and 5.2.14 are out
July 22 has seen the release of two new versions of PHP – the innovator 5.3.x and the previous 5.2.x. There are interesting news for both these new releases.
PHPDOCX: generating Word documents from PHP
PHPDOCX is a PHP library that allows its client code to generate Microsoft Word documents in the .docx format from PHP scripts, or to output PDF and HTML from a given Word document.
Never Use $_GET Again
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.
Learning to be Flexible
Last year in the thick of web2project development, we realized something obvious: The vast majority of people don’t need the full system, they just need a way to see their just their information in a useful way. Towards that goal, we started shopping around for options to simplify and an Adobe AIR app quickly became a leading candidate. Fast forward a few months and I finally had the time to try out Flash Builder 4.
phpDay 2010 international talks
Fabien Potencier and other international speakers made their talks at phpDay 2010, which are now available online.
FTW! Contest Deadline is May 17th
The FTW! Competition (Canadian PHP on Windows Contest) deadline is May 17th 8am. If you have a PHP application running on Windows and IIS, submit your app to this competition today.
phpDay 2010
Let’s take a look at the international speakers of 2010’s edition of the phpDay conference in Italy, and at the variety of covered topics.