I came across the Hardened-PHP website today, a project "that adds security hardening features to PHP to protect your servers… against a number of well known problems in hastily written PHP scripts and… against potential unknown vulnerabilities within the engine itself". Just this week, they launched a new forum on the site, with discussions revolving […]

Over the past week, I've been adding fresh links to the new phpDirectory website by the pound. I've encountered a rather frustrating trend however: most bloggers seem to have forgotten to populate the meta description tag! This means that I have to scout around the site to get a feel for it and write my […]

This is cool! I thought I might have to roll my own Amazon PHP API script, but after a little searching discovered this one from php9.com. My little brain is zooming with possible uses for this now! I admit this isn't anything particularly new, but I was a little late to the gates on Amazon […]

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I've purchased Mandriva CDs in the past, but never got around to installing it! I have a spare computer that I plan […]

I have alot of PHP related bookmarks stored in Firefox. I mean ALOT! Add to this the multitude of PHP blogs I subscribe to, and that's quite a collection of PHP resources. Some might call it an arsenal. Well, I call it an arsenal, and this morning, after deciding that I needed a better way […]