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• Apache Performance and Security Guide

  Security
  Here’s a very good article on how to optimize performance and improve security on Apache Servers. “This guide is written mostly for web administrators/developers, who want to optimize the speed and increase the security of Apache web server. Without a doubt, Apache is still one of the best web servers on the Internet. Being open [...]

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• phpBB exploit in the wild – PHP Security Blog

  PHP
  A new threat for PHPBB users. Here’s a post from the PHP Security Blog. “At Halloween 2005 I had disclosed a number of bugs in phpBB, including a remote code execution exploit through the signature_bbcode_uid variable. You will not find this vulnerability in the phpBB security tracker because it is phpBB project’s practise to blame [...]

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• Unobtrusive Degradable Ajax Style Sheet Switcher

  Ajax
  Here’s a cool way to swap Stylesheets on the fly using UDASSS(Unobtrusive Degradable Ajax Style Sheet Switcher). Works great even if Javascript is disabled on the browser. The Unobtrusive Degradable Ajax Style Sheet Switcher combines the power of Server Side processing and DOM scripting to swap style sheets on the fly with the power of [...]

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• Upload, Store, Search and Watermark your images using PHP and GD

  PHP
  Here are a 3 tutorials showing you how to upload, store and watermark your images using GD with PHP. The first tutorial shows you how to upload and store images on your server using PHP & GD. Link: Storage and re-use of images using PHP/GD – Part 1 :: gvtulder.f2o.org The second part of the [...]

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• CryptoDox – an attempt to create a free encyclopedia on cryptography

  Security
  This is an attempt to create a free encyclopedia on cryptography. The initiative was started on 21-Dec-2005 by one of my friends Anuj Seth. The project is looking for contributions in terms of providing original (non-copyrighted) material. You can add it directly to the site at the appropriate location, once you register yourself there. Link [...]

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• Search engine using Symfony [PHP5]

  PHP
  Here’s a great tutorial on how to create a fully functional search engine using the Symfony framework. You can develop your own search engine, with results ordered by relevancy, smart indexing and stemming of search terms. Head over to this fifteen-minutes tutorial from the symfony project. Link: symfony PHP5 framework » Search engine Symfony is [...]

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• A few XML & PHP Tutorials

  Databases
  Here are a few XML parsing tutorials from kirupa.com. Kirupa.com is a cool place to check out tutorials on Flash and PHP. ” If you are looking at this tutorial then you probably have a good idea in your head about what XML is and what you can do with it. However, for those of [...]

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• How To Create an RSS Aggregator with PHP and AJAX

  Ajax
  Imagine using a simple HTML file to send a request to a server-side script, receive a custom XML file based on that request, and then display it to the user without ever refreshing the browser! Kris Hadlock explains how to use a combination of PHP and AJAX to create real-time data transfers in any application [...]

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• Top 7 PHP Security Blunders

  PHP
  PHP is a terrific language for the rapid development of dynamic Websites. It also has many features that are friendly to beginning programmers, such as the fact that it doesn’t require variable declarations. However, many of these features can lead a programmer inadvertently to allow security holes to creep into a Web application. The popular [...]

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• Generating One-Time URLs with PHP

  PHP
  Imagine that you’re selling a digital product online. Maybe you’ve written an article or a book and want to sell it on your site as a PDF. There are many ways one could do this, but one of the more convenient is to provide the user with a unique URL that only will work a [...]

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