Archive for the ‘PHP/mySQL’ Category
Upcoming WordPress Security Book
Posted on November 5, 2010 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development
I casually asked a few of you (okay, almost 8,000 of you) if there would be any interest in a commercial (but cheap) e-book on securing, monitoring, and un-hacking WordPress. I received enough “yes”, “absolutely” and “hell yeah!” replies that I decided to move forward with this project.
Firefox Addons for Penetration/XSS Testing
Posted on October 14, 2010 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development
2010 was supposed to be the year of the Tiger, but it’s felt more like the year of Pwny so far. This article covers some Firefox add-ons that help you test your own apps, whether you’re working with a penetration tester, or by default, you are the penetration tester.
Upgrading to WordPress 3.0 and Adding Multi-Site
Posted on June 19, 2010 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL
WordPress 3.0, code name “Thelonious”, has been released, and it brings multi-site functionality as part of the core. As someone with far too many blogs of my own, I thought this would be a great time to start switching them all over, and let you know what you’re in for if you choose to do [...]
Microsoft Web Developer’s Summit 2009
Posted on December 5, 2009 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development
I had the opportunity this week to go out to Redmond, Washington to attend the Microsoft Web Developer’s Summit at the MS headquarters. For this summit, about 25 leaders in the PHP (and PHP project) community were invited out to sit down with members of the MS product development teams and provide critical, honest feedback [...]
Funky characters in HTML mail using PHPMailer
Posted on October 10, 2009 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development
While working on a client project, I ended up having to send HTML email notifications to users. During testing, I discovered some stray characters at the beginning of the email.
PHP Regex to Make Twitter Links Clickable
Posted on September 10, 2009 by snipe in PHP/mySQL, Web Development
This is just a quicky post, not one of my usual long, rambling diatribes. This week is madness, even by my own absurd standards, but I didn’t want to miss jotting this down in case it might be helpful to others.
Writing Your First Twitter Application with OAuth
Posted on July 23, 2009 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development
If you’re interested in writing a web-based Twitter application but aren’t sure where to start, the Twitter OAuth library from Abraham Wiliams makes authenticating with OAuth and Twitter a breeze.
Using IP Geolocation and Radius Searching with PHP/MySQL
Posted on December 15, 2008 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development
Delivering content relative to the physical location of your users is an excellent (and fairly easy) way to fine-tune the content you’re delivering to be most relevent to the people visiting your site. Two simple ways of doing this are to use an IP-based geolocation lookup, or to do a manual radius search (like a [...]
Fixing Curly Quotes and Em Dashes in PHP
Posted on December 11, 2008 by snipe in PHP/mySQL
The curly quotes, or “smart quotes” generated by Microsoft Word and other applications can be a real headache to developers. If you’ve built an administration area for your content publishers, and the publishers frequently compose their posts in Word and then copy+paste into your form to publish to the web, you may run into the [...]
Planning a Facebook Application: Part Two
Posted on December 5, 2008 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development
I know I promised you that we’d get into some code in the next part in this series, but the article is coming out much longer than I anticipated, as I expect it to be one of the most thorough articles out there regarding Facebook application design. Part two of this series will walk through [...]
Planning Your Facebook Application
Posted on September 27, 2008 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development
This is part one of a series – the technical how-to of creating the application will be discussed in a separate article. This article is intended to help you plan out your application to best prepare for coding and best leverage the new aspects of Facebook for exposure and social interaction.
