The way the code of an application is organized greatly influences its maintainability, extendability and testability. Finding flaws in your object-oriented design as early as possible can therefore make the difference between an awesome application and a not so good one. Luckily there are a lot of indicators to look …
Tis presentation details how to incorporate security checks into the software development process for PHP applications. It also steps through the implementation and caveats of a security audit.
Most people are familiar with common vulnerabilities in PHP code, such as SQL Injections and XSS. SQL Injections can be prevented by using a good data base abstraction layer, but there may be old code which depends on developers manually sanitizing input. XSS vulnerabilities may not be dealt with properly, …
PHP 5.4 is about to bring some of the most exciting changes to the PHP language to date. Learn about traits, array dereferencing, indirect method calls using array callback syntax and improvements to closures and streams. Additionally, the talk reminds the new bits in PHP 5.3, in case you missed …
Couchbase Server is a fully memcached API compatible database that solves performance, scaling and querying needs. It relies on proven technologies like memcached and Apache CouchDB along with a chunk of open source components that make the whole thing work. Couchbase developed a PHP extension to work with Couchbase Server.
This short tutorial explains the if/elseif/else instructions for PHP. Video producer: TheNewBoston.com
