Community News: 6th Generation of ElePHPants is Born!
The team that has brought you the infamous PHP ElePHPants in the past is back with another round - the 6th generation of the cuddly PHP mascot in both traditional blue and pink. April 19, 2011 PHPère...
View ArticleAnthony Ferrara's Blog: Random Number Generation In PHP
Anthony Ferrara has a new post to his blog today looking at true random number generation as it relates to predictability and bias. He also talks about a method/tool you can use (based on RFC 4086) to...
View ArticleProject: Zend Framework Google Analytics Code Generation
Martin Aarhof has put together an handy tool for Zend Framework applications that creates the async javascript analytic code recommended by Google to provide tracking information back to Analytics. It...
View ArticleCodeIgniter.com: New User Guide in Development
The CodeIgniter development team is happy to announce work that's been done on the framework's user guide to help make it even better and easier to find the information you're looking for (now based...
View ArticleNetTuts.com: Easy Form Generation Using FuelPHP
On the NetTuts.com site today there's a new tutorial from Sahan Lakshitha about creating forms in FuelPHP, the PHP 5.3-centric framework. Thanks to FuelPHP's fieldset class, working with forms...
View ArticleMaltBlue.com: Zend Form Mastery with Zend_Config - Part 2, Core Form...
In his previous post to the MaltBlue.com blog Matt introduced the concept of configuration-driven Zend_Form instances. He's back with a second part to the series, enhancing his original examples by...
View ArticleKevin Schroeder: Generating secure cross site request forgery tokens (csrf)
In this new post to his site Kevin Schroeder has a new post with his take on generating more secure CSRF tokens for use in your site. In researching the second edition for the IBM i Programmer's Guide...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: Simplifying Test Data Generation with Faker
In a new post to PHPMaster.com today, Rakhitha Nimesh takes a look at Faker, a tool that can be used to generate random test case data as a part of your workflow. Testing is an iterative part of the...
View ArticleAnthony Ferrara: Preventing CSRF Attacks
Anthony Ferrara has written up a new post to his site looking at efective use of CSRF tokens and a few different strategies for generating them. There's been a bit of noise in the past week about the...
View ArticleTimoh's Blog: Secure random numbers for PHP developers
Timoh has posted a look at random number generation to his site, focusing on one of the many methods to produce truly random number - using /dev/(u)random (available on Unix-based filesystems). How...
View ArticlePHP.net: PHP Next Generation
On the main PHP.net site today there's an announcement posted about the working being done on the next generation of the PHP language based on some recent discussions (and actual development work)....
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Effective PDF Generation in Drupal
On the SitePoint PHP blog today there's a new post showing you how to create PDFs in a Drupal-based site making use of the Print module for the creation and formatting. DF generation takes a slight...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: 4 Best Chart Generation Options with PHP Components
The SitePoint PHP blog has a new article posted sharing four of the best charting libraries they've seen for use in your PHP applications. Options include both server and client side tools, making...
View ArticleParagon Initiative: How to Safely Generate Random Strings and Integers in PHP
The Paragon Initiative blog has posted a guide to what they see as a way to safely generate random strings and integers in PHP applications. Generating useful random data is a fairly common task for a...
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