NETTUTS: 5 Helpful Tips for Creating Secure PHP Applications
NETTUTS posted an article, 5 Helpful Tips for Creating Secure PHP Applications. Frequently PHP sites have security issues, as some things make sense but are just not fully thought out. When doing web...
View ArticleFormatting Stock Data from Yahoo Finance
Yesterday I was playing with manipulating information pulled from stocks. I ended up pulling data from Yahoo Finance, because it is just so easy to do in PHP. I ran into a problem, how would I pull...
View ArticleHow web developers protect PHP sites from SQL injection attacks
Web developers are responsible for writing websites that work today, but also years or even decades from now (though I would argue the average website shouldn’t be left alone for a decade). It can be...
View ArticlePHP Email – A Beginners Guide
Saw a nicely done introduction tutorial to sending email with PHP: PHP has a very simple mail function which is used very often for basic text mail messages. What if you need to attach files or if you...
View ArticleHosting: How to pick a WordPress Host
WordPress is a popular CMS platform (and has evolved from a purely blogging platform). If you have virtually no technical knowledge at all, start off very basic with a WordPress.com account. There...
View ArticleFacebook Like Button: It says “likes http://example.com/page/to/like on...
If you’re implementing a Facebook Like Button, and copied the code from the Like Button page to paste generically into a template, then you may have a problem. Using the iFrame code, by default, you...
View ArticleWordPress 3.2 Gershwin Released – new interface, and much more
While we were all celebrating July 4th, WordPress 3.2 was released. The purpose of the release seems to be in streamlining the administrative control panel for both speed and ease of use. Included in...
View ArticleSOPA Protest Today
It seems like quite a number of sites have joined in the SOPA protest. Some interesting one’s that I’ve seen have been: Google Given their high profile, I was happy to see the logo was blacked out...
View ArticleHelp: Uploading MP3s on WordPress doesn’t work
Today I ran into a minor issue with WordPress. When uploading an MP3 file (in my case, although I’m sure many other file types) — I was getting an “HTTP Error” or “Internal Server Error” depending on...
View ArticleWordPress 3.4.1 Maintenance / Security update Released
Time to update again.. WordPress released the 3.4.1 update addressing some basic maintenance issues and a few security vulnerabilities. Some fixes: Theme’s page template detection fix (this could get...
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