php functions

In this recent post to his blog Anson Cheung provides a set of helpful hints for sysadmins to follow when installing (or just securing) the PHP installations on their systems.

The Bakery (a CakePHP site) has announced the release of CakePHP 2.0, a major shift in the framework with some very large changes to bring it up to the level of other full-stack frameworks currently offered for PHP.

Rafael Dohms has an interesting new post to his site today looking at a library he's developed (inspired by the Symfony Validation library) to help filtering values with rules defined in annotations.

On NetTuts.com today there's a new tutorial from Burak Guzel about keeping your passwords (and web applications) safer by using hashing with passwords and understanding which of the PHP functions is right for you.

On PHPBuilder.com there's a new tutorial showing you some of the PHP functions that you can use to interact with the network surrounding (and even vaguely related to) your application.

Fabien Potencier has a new post today about an update he's made to an aging bit of code for the Symfony framework to find files on the local filesystem - sfFinder.

The best practices for finding files with PHP has evolved a lot in a the last few years. Back in 2004, one of the very first thing I did with PHP was porting the File::Find::Rule Perl module to PHP. File::Find::Rule is a great way to describe the files and directories you want to work with.

I used the opendir, readdir, and closedir native PHP functions, and it did the job quite well.

The PHP class was named sfFinder, and it can still be found in all symfony versions.

Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:

• Brendon's Blog: 10 PHP functions you (probably) never use
• Tutorialzine.com: Advanced Event Timeline With PHP, CSS & jQuery
• StackOverflow.com: What PHP framework would you choose for a new application and why?
• Rdavid.net: Test Results on Memory Usage of Zend Framework and Doctrine with APC

New from his blog Brendon has a list of what he thinks are ten PHP functions you'll never use.

Hannes Magnusson has a new post today about an interesting feature of the PHP documentation some might not have known existed - manual pages (man) for PHP functions/methods for unix systems.