DevShed: Building a PHP5 Form Processor - Coding the Form Validator Module
DevShed has the second part of their "Building a PHP5 Form Processor" series posted today - Coding the Form Validator Module. It looks at how to construct a set of functions that will check the data...
View ArticleHardened-PHP Project: Advisory - PHP unserialize() Array Creation Integer...
The Hardened-PHP project has just released another advisory about core PHP functionality, specifically in the unserialize function when dealing with arrays. The PHP 5 branch of the PHP source code...
View ArticleMySQL Performance Blog: Integers in PHP, running with scissors, and portability
According to this new post on the MySQL Performance Blog, PHP has a bit of an issue when it comes to working with integers. Until recently I thought that currently popular scripting languages, which...
View ArticleSecunia.com: PHP Integer Overflow Vulnerability and Security Bypass
Secunia has released an advisory for PHP today related to an issue caused by an integer overflow that could allow for bypassing of security of an application. A weakness and a vulnerability have been...
View ArticleJob Posting: The Integer Group Seeks Web Developer (Lakewood, CO)
Company The Integer Group Location Lakewood, Colorado Title Web Developer Summary At The Integer Group, we've created an environment based on the beliefs that there are no challenges that can't be...
View ArticleBrian Moon's Blog: Short Array Syntax for PHP
There's been some talk floating around about a proposed additional syntax for creating arrays in PHP. Brian Moon sums it up nicely in a new post to his blog. So, I was asked in IRC today about the...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Is Your PHP Application Affected by the Y2K38 Bug?
On the SitePoint PHP blog today they pose a question to all PHP developers out there - is your application affected by the Y2K38 bug? I don't want to be too alarmist, but try running the [given] PHP...
View ArticleXPertDeveloper.com: Is Your PHP Application Affected by the Y2K38?
On the XpertDeveloper.com site there's a post reminding you of an date could cause all sorts of problems with your PHP application - the effects of the Y2K38 bug. Y2K38, or the Unix Millennium Bug,...
View ArticleLorna Mitchell's Blog: PHP Returning Numeric Values in JSON
Lorna Mitchell has a quick reminder about an issue in the new joind.in API version - everything was being returned as strings, even integers. A few weeks later (my inbox is a black hole and it takes a...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: How to Create a Unique 64bit Integer from String
In the latest post to the SitePoint PHP blog Vova Feldman shows you how to create an integer from a hash string that's both 64 bit and unique each time it's generated. PHP provides the popular md5()...
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