On May 1, 2010 The Month of PHP Security 2010 officially started, an initiative which took place first in 2007 aiming to improve PHP security. In each day of this month at least one PHP vulnerability will be posted. Along with the articles they’ll be writing, viewers can contribute with their own papers on this subject,...
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What is the POST revision? Everytime someone edits a post, a new row is created in the wp_posts table.The number of rows grows as the number of edits grows.It is important to know that autosaves do not create revisions of the post. This feature is useful only if there is more than one author on the blog, otherwise, it is useless,...
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Introduction As of MySQL 5.0 built-in (native) functions, user-defined functions and stored functions are now supported by the mysql engine. Although these functions are widely available to the developer their use isn’t fully exploited. In this article I am going to present the top MySQL functions that come in handy. Hash...
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How much time do you spend programming? I’m sure that it’s a large chunk of time.With time, the default IDE starts to lose its appeal and you would want to customize the way things look in your development environment.While some IDE’s do not support visual customization, others do. Visual Studio enables you to...
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You will often want to extract content from HTML pages to operate on it.A good example is when creating a SEO tool that returns the keyword density or performs other content-related SEO specific operations.Of course, you cannot just grab the HTML source code and operate directly on it.What you need is the content of the page.And...
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A cryptographic hash function is a procedure that takes in a variable amount of data and returns a fixed-size bit string known as the data’ signature or hash value. Among the hash functions the most widely used is by far MD5, but currently it’s days are numbered because of breakthroughs in cracking it. One approach I...
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