php core

Howtoforge: "This tutorial shows how to harden PHP5 with Suhosin on a CentOS 5.4 server. From the Suhosin project page: "Suhosin is an advanced protection system for PHP installations that was designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in PHP applications and the PHP core."

Being the verbose kind, I guess I will put in a summary at the top leaving the original post below for everyone to read all the little details.

Essentially the summary is that I (and many other core developers) agree that HEAD/trunk in its current form was stalling future development on PHP.

Jani indirectly jump started the discussion of moving this stumbling block out of the way by essentially doing two commits that violate the most fundamental rules of PHP development (and common sense courtesy) we have.

A big topic in the world of PHP recently has been interoperability between libraries. With the release of PHP 5.3 and the introduction of namespaces some discussion of new standards around the use of namespaces to promote the interoperability of autoloader implementations has started.

In a new post to his blog Brandon Savage takes a look at five different functions for working with arrays you can do some pretty cool things with:

Following up on all of the craziness that was caused by the suggestion of including type hinting into the PHP core, Ilia Alshaetsky recently posted some of his thoughts on how things turned out and where he'll go from here.

For those looking forward to PHP6 (a jump beyond the upcoming PHP 5.3) Fabien Potencier has pointed out a few things that will be coming out in this future release (based on these notes).

HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how to harden PHP5 with Suhosin on a CentOS 5.3 server. From the Suhosin project page: "Suhosin is an advanced protection system for PHP installations that was designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in PHP applications and the PHP core."