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Apparently PHP has a lot of functions starting with the letter A, and people find it offensive (Read a pro-PHP response to that article here).
PHP Versus The World
Open Source • PHP • Web development May 22nd, 2008Models In The Zend Framework – Part 2
Open Source • PHP • Web development May 21st, 2008Continuing with this series, we'll get right to business.
Filtering and validation
Filtering and validation are the basics of dealing with user input in the web. We filter data before passing it to the database to prevent attacks (such as SQL Injections) and we validate user input to make sure it is what we expect it to be (hence, valid).
I will be using the Zend_Filter and Zend_Validate components to deal with those two tasks, and combine their usage via the Zend_Filter_Input component. Zend_Filter and Zend_Validate are self explanatory, however I will cover Zend_Filter_Input in brief.
Zend Lay-offs, Prepare for acquisition
PHP • The Webs • Web development May 19th, 2008
The breaking news are that Zend has fired 25% employees R&D department (Updated, thanks David for pointing that out), possibly in preparation for acquisition my a major player. Zend employees are major contributers in the PHP open-source project, so this has tangible ramification for all of us PHP developers out there.
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Models in the Zend Framework – Part 1
Open Source • PHP • Web development May 18th, 2008
Preamble: This series of articles deals with providing a generic model class for use in the Zend Framework.
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Processing… in Javascript
Interesting • Javascript • Web development May 17th, 2008
John Resig (of jQuery fame) has released 10 days ago a Javascript implementation of Processing, a Java based visualization language. Read the rest of this entry »