Last week, I was asked to give my two cents worth on the process of learning PHP and therefore I came up with the following.
Introduction to PHP — Learn what you can and can’t do with PHP, how similar/different it is to other programming languages, what is object-oriented PHP, etc
Installation [...]
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Recently, a few people have been approaching me with their interest in learning PHP and today, I came across this article PHP 101: PHP For the Absolute Beginner via Digg. Talk about timing!
This area is intended for everyone new to PHP. It opens with a series of informal, entertaining tutorials written by Vikram Vaswani, [...]
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The source code of Facebook (a popular social networking website) homepage was exposed on the Internet yesterday due to server misconfiguration. The following is an unofficial response made by Brandee Barker from Facebook:
Some of Facebook’s source code was exposed to a small number of users due to a bug on a single [...]
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This is why.
Note to self: Only use subqueries ( SELECT * FROM `table1` WHERE `id` IN (SELECT `id` FROM `table2`) ) when it is impossible to achieve the same result using joins.
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I saw this interesting article Ghosts in the Machine: 12 Coding Languages That Never Took Off on softwaredeveloper.com via digg programming and thought you might also find it interesting.
The programming languages that many people have not heard of are:
ALGOL 68: ALGOrithmic Language 1968
brainfuck
Befunge
REBOL: Relative Expression Based Object Language
ColdFusion (I think this is going [...]
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5 July 2007 — A consortium of PHP developers has announced today that several leading Open Source PHP projects will be dropping support for older versions of PHP in upcoming releases of their software as of February 5, 2008 as part of a joint effort to move the PHP developer community fully onto PHP [...]
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Ryan Campbell has written an interesting article called Web App Autopsy which looks at 4 very different yet all popular web applications from behind the scenes. It gives readers an insight into development of startups and how much time and code it takes to launch a full-blown web application.
Graph taken from [...]
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One of the most important tasks of any developer is to know what errors occur in his application, because it is impossible to fix them if you don’t know if they exist in the first place. Although you may think that your application is perfect and bugs free, you can never be 100% [...]
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Last week, I posted a demo video on SQL injection. If you would like to know what you should do to your web application to prevent SQL injection, please read this article Security Corner: SQL Injection, which was published in php|architect.
SQL injection is usually caused by user inputs and therefore washing [...]
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