The PHP Grind

Andi Gutmans’ Blog: Zend Conference Call for Papers about to Close

Andi Gutmans has a reminder for all of those wanting to get their presentations in for this year’s Zend/PHP Conference and Expo - the Call for Papers ends tomorrow, May 31st 2007.

In October, 2007 we are hosting our 3rd annual Zend/PHP Conference near San Francisco. It is a great opportunity to meet other people from the PHP community, meet with various users of ours who are building business-critical applications, get to meet some of the commercial eco-system builders and of course hear what Zend is up to.

This year’s conference is being held at the Hyatt Regency at the San Francisco Airport October 8th through the 11th. The general overview of each day of the conference has been posted already and you can register now to reserve your place!

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DevShed: Using PDO Objects in PHP 5 - Using the PDO extension

DevShed launches a new tutorial series today with this new article, an introductory look at using the PDO objects in PHP5.

As you may have seen at first glance, the PDO extension looks really useful in certain situations. In this three-part series, I’m going to introduce its most important features, by accompanying the corresponding theoretical concepts with numerous hands-on examples, in this way facilitating the respective learning curve.

They start the series off with a look at using the extension and connecting to a resource (in their case, a MySQL database). Then, it’s on to performing queries and grabbing the last inserted IDs for the rows your script just put in.

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Secunia.com: HP System Management Homepage PHP Multiple Vulnerabilities

Secunia has a new advisory posted that HP System Management Homepage users will want to take note of - an issue that’s been found with how the PHP for this software is written that can lead to exploitable issues.

HP has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in HP System Management Homepage, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information, bypass certain security restrictions, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), or potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

This issue has been reported in versions prior to 2.1.8 on Linux and Windows and the solution is easy - just upgrade to a newer version such as 2.1.8 or later. The Secunia post has links to some of the needed downloads.

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Dave Dash’s Blog: Boosting terms in Zend Search Lucene

On the SpinDrop blog today, Dave Dash continues his look at the Lucene search engine for the Zend Framework with this new post showing how to boost certain terms’ relevance in the search results.

Lucene supports boosting or weighting terms. For example, if I search for members of a web site, and I type in Dash, I want people with the name Dash to take precedence over somebody who has a hobby of running the 50-yard Dash.

He shows how to, with the help of a few simple lines of PHP code added to your application, you can easily boost terms based on field by whatever multiplier you choose.

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PGP and GPG: Email for the Practical Paranoid

Cryptography is a difficult topic but many people are interested in keeping their email communications private. Where can a moderately skilled geek find a good introduction that will teach them the practical skills em PGP GPG Email for the Practical Paranoid em claims it can help. Quantum Skyline from our own Dev Hardware forums reviews the book….

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