Posts Tagged ‘PHP’
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Image Manipulation With jQuery & PHP GD
- April 5th, 2011
- 58 Comments
One of the numerous advantages brought about by the explosion of jQuery and other JavaScript libraries is the ease with which you can create interactive tools for your site. When combined with server-side technologies such as PHP, this puts a serious amount of power at your finger tips. In this article, ...
Read more...Keeping Web Users Safe By Sanitizing Input Data
- January 11th, 2011
- 44 Comments
In my last article, I spoke about several common mistakes that show up in web applications. Of these, the one that causes the most trouble is insufficient input validation/sanitization. In this article, I’m joined by my colleague Peter (evilops) Ellehauge in looking at input filtering in more depth ...
Read more...What To Do When Your Website Goes Down
- December 13th, 2010
- 79 Comments
Have you ever heard a colleague answer the phone like this: “Good afterno… Yes… What? Completely?… When did it go down?… Really, that long?… We’ll look into it right away… Yes, I understand… Of course… Okay, speak to you soon… Bye.” The call may have been followed by some cheesy ...
Read more...Common Security Mistakes in Web Applications
- October 18th, 2010
- 90 Comments
Web application developers today need to be skilled in a multitude of disciplines. It’s necessary to build an application that is user friendly, highly performant, accessible and secure, all while executing partially in an untrusted environment that you, the developer, have no control over. I speak, of course, ...
Read more...PHP: What You Need To Know To Play With The Web
- April 15th, 2010
- 187 Comments
In this article, I’ll introduce you to the fundamentals of PHP. We’ll focus on using PHP to access Web services and on turning static HTML pages into dynamic ones by retrieving data from the Web and by showing different content depending on what the user has entered in a form ...
Read more...Web Security: Are You Part Of The Problem?
- January 14th, 2010
- 75 Comments
Website security is an interesting topic and should be high on the radar of anyone who has a Web presence under their control. Ineffective Web security leads to all of the things that make us hate the Web: spam, viruses, identity theft, to name a few. The problem with Web security ...
Read more...Website Performance: What To Know and What You Can Do
- January 6th, 2010
- 96 Comments
Website performance is a hugely important topic, so much so that the big companies of the Web are obsessed with it. For the Googles, Yahoos, Amazons and eBays, slow websites mean fewer users and less happy users and thus lost revenue and reputation. In your case, annoying a few users ...
Read more...10 Advanced PHP Tips Revisited
- March 24th, 2009
- 108 Comments
Here, on the Smashing Editorial team, we always try to meet the expectations of our readers. We do our best to avoid misunderstandings, and we try to spread knowedge and present only the best design practices and development techniques. However, sometimes we do make mistakes. And when we do, we ...
Read more...The Big PHP IDE Test: Why Use One And Which To Choose
- February 11th, 2009
- 241 Comments
Everyone wants to be more productive, make fewer mistakes and write good code. Of course, that all depends on you, but in most cases integrated development environments (IDEs) can help you achieve those goals more easily. Unfortunately, choosing the right IDE is very difficult because a lot needs to be ...
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