OpenID34 items tagged “php”
Windows Live ID Delegated Authentication. Would make life a lot simpler if they just supported OAuth, but at least they include sample code in Python, Ruby and PHP. 
8th March 2008, 3:19 pm
Symfonians (via) Similar concept to Django People but for Symfony developers—coincidentally launched within the past week as well. 25th January 2008, 4:15 pm
Hacky holidays on OS X. Jeremy Keith documents how to get PHP 5 and Apache 2 virtual hosts running on Leopard. 29th December 2007, 11:49 am
The backdooring of SquirrelMail. A SquirrelMail developer’s account was compromised and used to insert a backdoor: the other developers initially missed the hole because it used $_SERVER[’HTTP_BASE_PATH’], which can be set with a Base-Path: HTTP header. 28th December 2007, 11:40 pm
The Web Application Scale of Stupidity goes from OGF (One Giant Function) to OOP (Object Oriented Programming), like this: OGF ——– sanity ——— OOP
— Cal Henderson (paraphrased) 2nd November 2007, 6:23 am
Cruciforum (via) Stuart’s new PHP forum—single script, stores threads as static HTML on the filesystem (no database), installation is a one-step process. 16th October 2007, 9:08 am
Becoming PHP 6 Compatible. According to this article, I’ve been writing PHP 6 compatible code since about 2002. 
24th September 2007, 12:13 pm
7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails. After two years working on a Rails rewrite of CD Baby, Derek Sivers scrapped it and instead rewrote the PHP version using Rails-inspired design principles. Derek would still use Rails for a greenfield project though. 
23rd September 2007, 8:49 am
J4P5: Javascript For PHP 5 (via) “J4P5 is a JavaScript interpreter written in PHP 5, that allows to run untrusted scripts in a sandbox on your server. It aims to implement most of Ecma-262 3rd edition.” 12th July 2007, 10:24 pm
GoPHP5.org. A campaign to encourage a mass switchover from PHP 4 to PHP 5 on February 8th 2008, by co-ordinating both hosting companies and PHP projects. 8th July 2007, 10:08 am
Index of /drupal/modules/openid. Drupal’s OpenID implementation in CVS. 26th June 2007, 12:26 am
Drupal 6 and OpenID. “The implementation is all Drupal native code—no third party libraries were used.” 26th June 2007, 12:26 am
Python 3000 Status Update. Doesn’t look like we’ll get multiline lambdas, but the other stuff looks great. I’m not looking forward to years of Python 2 and Python 3 co-existing and splitting the community though (ala PHP 4 and 5). 19th June 2007, 1:49 pm
Unsettling. Sounds like there might be a massive scripted hack going on against out of date WordPress installs on Dreamhost. Check your site. See also discussion in the comments attached to this post. 
5th June 2007, 9:16 pm
A brief unofficial history about register_globals in PHP. It’s been more than five years since register_globals was disabled by default in PHP 4.2.0. 30th April 2007, 8:20 am
phpbb-openid first beta. A fully functional OpenID consumer for phpBB 2.0, implemented as a set of patches. 
29th April 2007, 8:27 pm
Quercus: PHP in Java (via) A “fast, open-source, 100% Java implementation of the PHP language”, built to run on top of Resin. Claims to be compatibly with MediaWiki, Drupal, Wordpress, Gallery2 and DocuWiki. 12th April 2007, 4:25 pm
phpsh. An interactive shell for PHP, developed at Facebook and written mostly in Python. Facebook are really pushing their open-source stuff at the moment. 3rd April 2007, 9:43 am
ANN: PHP OpenID 1.2.2 released. Includes a fix to a bug that was causing some consumers to be incompatible with the WordPress.com OpenID provider. If you’re using this in a PHP OpenID consumer you should upgrade now. 23rd March 2007, 8:33 pm
OmniTI_OpenID. OmniTI’s PHP OpenID 1.1 consumer library. Much less full featured than the JanRain library, but it’s good to have more than one. 18th March 2007, 1:15 am
PHP 4 phpinfo() XSS Vulnerability. Another reason not to run an open phpinfo() page on your server. 
4th March 2007, 9:24 pm
PHP and “OpenID authentication failed: Bad signature”. If you’re seeing a “Bad signature” error in your PHP OpenID application it could be down to a miscompiled GMP library. 15th February 2007, 10:02 am
OpenID (and TypeKey) using native OpenSSL functions in PHP. Wez Furlong shows how a small patch to PHP’s OpenSSL support makes it a whole lot easier to perform the cryptography behind OpenID (at the moment you need to use the bc or gmp modules). 10th February 2007, 10:49 pm
phpMyID. A simple, stand-alone OpenID server in a single PHP script with no dependencies. Makes managing your own identity trivial. 17th December 2006, 9:06 am
Yahoo! bookmarks uses symfony. Top reason for the decision was the excellent documentation. 9th November 2006, 12:28 pm
PHP: JSON Functions. Now bundled in PHP 5. A great way to move data from PHP to some other language. 3rd November 2006, 12:25 pm
PHP: __halt_compiler(). This is nuts. 10th May 2006, 5:28 pm
Testing a new version of IXR
Almost two years to the day since the last release, I’ve put together a new version of IXR, my PHP XML-RPC library. I haven’t published it on the site just yet as I want to make sure any bugs are ironed out first, but you can grab a copy here: [... 177 words]
Updated FormProcessor code released. Now available through Subversion. 25th July 2004, 10:50 pm
Zend PHP 5 Goodies
Zend have quietly released a veritable treasure trove of PHP 5 tutorials via their PHP5 InfoCenter: [... 212 words]
PHP 5 Release Candidate 1
I haven’t blogged much about PHP in a while because I’ve been up to my nose in mod_python and loving every minute of it. This news is just too important to miss: PHP 5 Release Candidate 1 has been released, bringing the first production-ready release tantilisingly close. While I doubt PHP 5 will tempt me back it’s definitely an exciting upgrade—my biggest complaint with PHP 4 is the brain-dead object model which defaults to copying whole objects rather than passing references, and this is one of the many things addressed by PHP 5. The new libxml2 powered XML features sound really powerful, and SQLite as an on-board database should be ideal for knocking out small stand-alone applications without needing to set up a mySQL database for them. [... 173 words]
PHP philosophy, and bundling SQLite
Here’s a great quote from Rasmus Lerdorf (the creator of PHP) for people who have become disheartened with PHP’s lack of elegance when compared to other languages such as Python: [... 232 words]
Hashing client-side data
Via Scott, a clever PHP technique for ensuring data sent to the browser as a cookie or hidden form variable isn’t tampered with by the user: [... 248 words]
Girlfriend as a case study
I’ve been helping my girlfriend recreate her site using CSS and structural markup. She’s new to web design and has been taking to CSS like a duck to water—as a veteran of Microsoft Word globally defined styles come to her naturally and she took very little time to cotton on to the importance of seperating presentation from content. I’ve shown her tables as well but she isn’t really interested as she sees CSS as a much better solution for general presentation. I’m hoping to help run an HTML/XHTML/CSS training course at the University early next year with a heavy emphasis on structural markup, standards compliance and accessibility so it’s great to have a guinea pig to play with :) [... 201 words]
