PHP Developer - June 29th, 2007
On the PHP Security Blog today, Stefan Esser points out an interview he did with BlogSecurity concerning the current state of security on the WordPress software.
In the Interview they talk about several different aspects and security-related concerns including:
- a previous critical SQL injection vulnerability in WordPress
- Esser’s general thoughts on the software
- his recommendations for the WordPress team
- improvements and suggestions for other blogging software he has
Check out this post on the BlogSecurity site for the complete interview.
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PHP Developer - June 29th, 2007
PHPBuilder.com has posted part two of their look at combining Ajax and PHP. They take things a step further than last time and look at the actual communication between the script and the server.
AJAX and PHP 5 both have powerful features for processing and using an XML document. XML is a method of formatting data often for communication purposes between different computer systems. In this article, we will show you how to access an XML document with AJAX!
They create a script that can load the XML information from a file and echo it back out to the waiting client script. They also include the other half - the client-side javascript that grabs the XML information, parses it, and pushed it into a javascript object for easy access.
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PHP Developer - June 29th, 2007
Vineet Agrawal sent us along an email today about a new event happening at this year’s OSSCampDelhi - Delhi’s first PHP Unconference:
India’s first community driven PHP Camp is on 08-09 September 2007. PHP Camp is part of India’s biggest Open Source UnConference “OSS Camp”. More than 300 Geeks from across the world are expected to participate.
PHP Camp will bring together the PHP community in a distinctly un-conference setting, to gather in groups to discuss or hack on something, rather than sitting in chairs and listening to marketing presentations with corporate logo. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. Participation is free of cost! OSS Camp is based on philosophy of Bar Camp (Barcamp.org). Barcamp is an ad-hoc gathering born out of the desire for people to meet up, share, exchange ideas and possibilities in an open environment. At OSS Camp there are no RULES, FIXED Formats, where open source geeks run the show!!
Some of the tracks for PHP camps are Frameworks, Unit Testing, PHP Security, Performance Management, High Availability beside product specific themes like Joomla, Drupal, EZ, Dot Project camps.
You can find out more information from the wiki for the event and, if you’re interested in presenting, head over to the submissions page and provide the info for your session (around 40 minutes for a normal talk, 90 minutes for a workshop).
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PHP Developer - June 29th, 2007
The folks over at php|architect have posted their latest podcast today - the Newscast for June 28th, 2007 - hosted by Sean Coates and Paul Reinheimer.
Among the topics mentioned on this week’s show are:
You can grab this latest show directly [mp3] or subscribe to their feed to get this and future episodes.
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PHP Developer - June 29th, 2007
The PEAR Blog has posted a request for ideas to help work up a new developer FAQ they can hand out to potential PEAR developers as a “jumpstart” guide to working with the package repository.
New developers need quite a time to familiarize themselves with the rules and conventions in PEAR. With the new role of mentors in PEAR2, they will have a contact person they can ask in that cases. But in many cases the same questions will get asked which will get boring for the mentoring developer, so we need a Mini-FAQ with a list of things the newbie should know.
They’re looking for comments posted to the entry to help define this guide. So far, a suggested outline has been proposed by David Coallier for both general information and developer-specific details.
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