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Richard Lord's Blog: PHP Password Security [2007-10-12 04:34:45] Richard Lord has posted a new entry today talking about working with passwords and keeping them secure: If you build websites that require users to register it's your responsibility to keep their passwords safe. And if you're storing the passwords in plain text then you're not doing your job properly. [...] There's always a chance your database could be stolen. So, the simple rule is to hash your passwords. His post talks about hashing with simple examples and a mention of an additional method of protection against the database of hashed passwords being stolen - salting the stored values.

The Show: The Low Down On Internationalization (i18n) [2007-10-12 04:33:55] The CakePHP podcast, "The Show" has posted their latest episode - The Low Down On Internationalization (i18n): Larry Masters joins us once again to discuss internationalization and localization features in the upcoming CakePHP 1.2 release. You can download this edition directly from their servers (via the mp3 link) or you can point your favorite feed reader at their podcast feed and get each show as it comes out.

Zend Developer Zone: PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 17: Attracting Talent [2007-08-26 10:50:47] The Zend Developer Zone has posted their latest episode of the PHP Abstract podcast hosted by Cal Evans himself covering ways you can attract quality talent to your organization. Along the way I've picked up a few truths, mainly stolen from people like Joel Spolsky. Some of these ideas can be found in an article I wrote a while ago titled "Nerd Herding", a link to which can be found in the show notes. Recently, I've had many people ask me variations of the same question, "How do I find talented programmers?" So today, I'm going to share with you some of the things I've learned. The latest show is available for direct download or, as always, you can subscribe to their feed to get this and lots of other great shows.

Internet Super Hero Blog: PHP: mysqli_stmt_get_result() [2007-08-26 10:50:02] Frustrated with the lack of something simple (like mysql_fetch_assoc) in the new mysqli extension, this new function was created an posted about on the Internet Super Hero blog - mysqli_stmt_get_results. By help of the new function, you can create a mysqli_result object from a statement that returns data (SELECT and other - version dependent!). Then you can use the mysqli_result object to process the returned data: fetch results, access meta data - all you can also do using a mysqli_result object returned by mysqli_query(). Included in the post are a few code examples showing the simplicity of the function and how it can still be used with the standard mysql_* functions to grab the results.

Travis Swicegood's Blog: Some new PEAR channel code [2007-08-26 10:49:18] Travis Swicegood talks about some updates he's made to the Ctrx_PEAR_Channel_Frontend package to make some updates for creating PEAR channels. The code's great and provides a good jumping off point, but I thought it needed some updates. Davey's been a busy guy and I had a few free hours every other evening or so for a few, so I decided to start extending it. Among the things he changed were some updates to the frontend text (to move away from hard-coded and into a more templated style) and the push of these changes into two new packages: Domain51_PEAR_Channel and Domain51_PEAR_Channel_Frontend. Together they allow access to the tables that Chiara_PEAR_Server creates and an extension system that allows for what he calls "package extras".

Community News: PRADO Watch Blog Launched [2007-08-10 18:21:29] Sam Hennessy submitted a link today to the PRADO Watch blog, a site dedicated to providing some of the latest information on the PRADO framework project. PRADO is a component-based and event-driven framework for rapid Web programming in PHP 5. PRADO reconceptualizes Web application development in terms of components, events and properties instead of procedures, URLs and query parameters. Recent updates to the blog include an interview with Dario Rigolin of foxcoverplay.com and several Prado Watch editions. Keep checking back for the latest updates on this great framework.

Zend Developer Zone: Paging Data Sets With PEAR Pager [2007-08-07 03:04:49] On the Zend Developer Zone today, there's a new tutorial covering the use of the PEAR Pager class to break sets into smaller sets for all sorts of data sets (not just database results). PEAR's Pager class, [which] offers developers a framework for breaking large data sets into smaller chunks, or pages, for greater readability or easier navigation. Pagination is important, particularly when dealing with result sets containing hundreds or thousands of items, because it allows the user to exert some degree of control over which segment of the data set is visible at any given point, and thus avoid drowning in a never-ending sea of data......

Nick Halstead's Blog: Reverse Polish Notation in PHP [2007-08-07 03:03:50] As a follow up to a previous post where he discussed reverse polish notation, Nick Halstead has decided to split off the code he created for that previous post into a new, sleeker post without much of the explanation and heavy on the code. My last post about back to basics covered reverse polish notation including a link to a RPN parser which I wrote to allow people to learn by example (best way in my opinion and in yours). The post got quite long and the PHP code was not really relevant to the subject so I have decided to include in this separate post instead. There's two parts to the post - a pseudo-code explanation that an overview of how things work and the actual code, a block of code (in the 30 line area) that runs through each item and, based on a token, pushes the value into the array differently.

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