WebReference.com: Security Techniques: Part 2
WebReference.com has posted part two in their series looking at security techniques in PHP. This time they focus on the use of a few things - the PECL filter, the PEAR Auth module and mcrypt. For each...
View ArticleDevX.com: A Guide to Cryptography in PHP
The DevX.com site has posted an introductory guide to using cryptography in PHP, showing how to use the various packages the language has to offer. Cryptography is just one piece of the security...
View ArticleITNewb.com: PHP Encryption / Decryption Using the MCrypt Library (libmcrypt)
On the ITNewb.com site there's a recent tutorial that's been posted by Andrew Johnson about using the mcrypt library in your PHP apps for a simple level of data protection. The ability to encrypt and...
View ArticleWebReference.com: Using PHP Encryption for Login Authentication
New on WebReference.com there's a follow up article that talks about using encryption built into PHP to handle login information and authentication. Following up on "Implementing One-way Encryption in...
View ArticleMark Karpeles' Blog: PHP can do anything, what about some ssh?
In an effort to just about everything he can with PHP Mark Karpeles has posted an article about how he created a SSH server in PHP with most (not quite all) of the functionality of some of its...
View ArticleRob Allen's Blog: Setting up PHP & MySQL on OS X 10.7 Lion
Rob Allen has posted his own guide to getting PHP 5.3 set up on OS X 10.7 Lion, the just-released update for Apple's operating system. It comes with a bundled set of PHP-related tools but you might...
View ArticleRob Allen: Setting up PHP & MySQL on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
Rob Allen has posted some notes to his site helping you get PHP set up on OSX Lion (10.8) successfully. With OS X 10.8, Apple continues to ship PHP 5.3 with Xdebug, PEAR, GD and PDO_MYSQL. This is how...
View ArticlePádraic Brady: Predicting Random Numbers In PHP - It's Easier Than You...
Pádraic Brady has a new post to his site about "randomness" in PHP and how, depending on the method used, you might not be as random as you think. The Zend Framework team recently released versions...
View ArticleLeaseWebLabs.com: Lessons learned implementing AES in PHP using Mcrypt
The LeaseWebLabs.com site has a new post talking about some of their difficulties (and lessons learned) when implementing AES in PHP with mcrypt for a recent project. The Advanced Encryption Standard...
View ArticleRob Allen: Setting up PHP & MySQL on OS X Yosemite
Rob Allen has posted a quick guide to help you get PHP and MySQL set up on Yosemite, the latest version of Apple's OSX operating system (just released last week). t's that time again; Apple has...
View ArticleMike Bronner: Run #AllTheCommands Outside of Homestead
In this new post Mike Bronner shows you how to get the latest PHP5 and Mcrypt versions installed on OS X Yosemite to make ti easier on developers needing to run commands outside of Homestead. Laravel...
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