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Tuesday, October 23. 2007

Project Planning for Developers

Project planning can be a tough task, as well as in any other software development. Every programmer knows that to create something new for the world to share and use, it starts with the planning. Planning your projects ahead of time can save you a lot of time, and present a more exciting challenge at the very same time. Remember, if you fail to plan, plan to fail. This article will present some basic concepts to think about during your own planning session for your next project.
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Monday, October 15. 2007

8 Practical PHP Regular Expressions

Here are eight examples of practical PHP regular expressions and techniques that I've used over the past few years using Perl Compatible Regular Expressions. This guide goes over the eight different validation techniques and describes briefly how they work. Usernames, telephone numbers, email addresses, and more.
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Saturday, October 13. 2007

Regular Expressions in PHP

What are Regular Expressions?

Regular expressions are a way of describing a pattern, using this pattern with PHP you can match, examine, replace, and edit strings with extreme versatility and flexibility. This guide covers the basics of Perl Compatible Regular Expressions, or PCRE, and how to use preg_match(), preg_replace(), and preg_split().
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Sunday, October 7. 2007

PHP Security - Part Two

This is part two of PHP Security basics. In this part, we'll be talking about validating integers better, validating strings with regex, hashing sensitive information, and webserver security.
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PHP Security - Part One

This guide goes over the basics of cleaning user input for safe use. This includes escaping strings correctly, stripping html and tags, preventing SQL injection, and other security issues. Anytime you use a $_POST, $_GET, or are receiving any information that the user can modify, you must be sure that you properly escape it, and clean it in some cases. This guide will show you how to do that, and more.
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Thursday, October 4. 2007

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