Top Ten Security Vulnerabilities in PHP Code !

1. Unvalidated Parameters
Most importantly, turn off register_globals. This configuration setting defaults to off in PHP 4.2.0 and later. Access values from URLs, forms, and cookies through the superglobal arrays $_GET, $_POST, and $_COOKIE.
Before you use values from the superglobal arrays, validate them to make sure they don’t contain unexpected input. If you know what type [...]

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TIOBE declares Python as programming language of 2007!

The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the world-wide availability of skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings. [...]

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January Newsflash

Python has been declared as programming language of 2007. It was a close finish, but in the end Python appeared to have the largest increase in ratings in one year time (2.04%). There is no clear reason why Python made this huge jump in 2007. Last month Python surpassed Perl for the first [...]

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IBM developerWorks: Mastering regular expressions in PHP

The IBM developer works website has posted the first part of a series they’ve created to help PHP developers become more informed about what regular expressions are and how they can harness their power for their applications.
Pattern matching is such a common chore for software that a special shorthand — regular expressions — has [...]

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CakePHP 1.2 Release (and a New Site Design)

As Chris Hartjes points out there’s a new release of the popular PHP framework CakePHP (as well as a new web site design).
You can grab the latest download directly from the homepage or look into the manual to find out more about the framework and how it can be used.

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Rails for PHP Developers Website Launched

Mike Naberezny has start up a new resource to try to bridge some of the gap between PHP and Ruby and to help developers of either to get a bit more insight into the others’ side – Rails for PHP Developers (based on the book published by the Pragmatic Programmers).
Rails for PHP Developers [...]

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The new documentation build system is ready for testing

The PHP documentation team is pleased to announce the initial release of the new build system that generates the PHP Manual. Written in PHP, PhD ([PH]P based [D]ocBook renderer) builds are now available for viewing at docs.php.net. Everyone is encouraged to test and use this system so that bugs [...]

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Zend hosts Third Annual ZEND/PHP Conference and announces new Products and Partner Initiatives

New Eclipse-Based PHP IDE, New Version of Zend Core, and Announcements by IBM, Microsoft and Oracle Highlight Start of World’s Largest PHP Conference
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA – October 9, 2007 – Today at ZendCon, the third annual Zend/PHP Conference, Zend took significant steps to further advance PHP’s capabilities as the premier platform for business-critical web applications. [...]

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php|tek 08 Schedule published!

The preliminary schedule for our upcoming php|tek 2008 conference, which will be held in Chicago between May 20th and 23rd, is finally up on the conference website.
Don’t miss it! The last two editions of php|tek sold out 4-6 weeks before the start date. Lock your spot today and enjoy free training, great pricing and one [...]

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PHP 5.2.5 Released

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.5. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.2.x branch with over 60 bug fixes, several of which are security related. All users of [...]

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