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Sayonara PHP4?

PHP Programming 7 July 2007 View Comments

As a PHP Developer, I think it’s time to move forward to PHP5. Today, I checked GoPHP5.org initiative: PHP developers cannot leverage PHP 5′s full potential without dropping support for PHP 4, but PHP 4 is still installed on a majority of shared web hosts and users would then be forced to switch to a [...]

MySQL Case Sensitive On Linux

PHP Programming 5 July 2007 View Comments

A good rule to remember. MySQL are case sensitive only table and database identifiers and only on platforms with case-sensitive filenames (Linux/Unix). So, If you’re developing a system. Do remember. MySQL are case sensitive. An example: Bad Practice: select * from Project Good Practice: SELECT * FROM project Ref: Identifier Case Sensitive

Inspekt Build Available

PHP Programming,Security 7 June 2007 View Comments

Yesteday, I presented a full-day tutorial on SQL Injection & Session Hijacking In PHP Programming which seems to have been well received by those who attended. And today, I would like to present to you a new Inspekt Build available to be downloaded at Google Code. What is Inspekt? Inspekt acts as a sort of [...]

PHP Loves JSON

Javascript,PHP Programming 19 May 2007 View Comments

JSON is a format for communication between the server-side (PHP, JSP, ASP, etc…) and the client-side (javascript). The magic of it is that the response from the server-side can be easily converted to an object via the use of the eval() function. eval() (can be “evil”) is a function that gives you the possibility to [...]