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Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:

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On NETTUTS.com today there's a new post by Dustin Blake with a few simple tips and helpful techniques to locking down and protecting your website with some simple PHP scripts.

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• DevShed: Advanced PHP Form Input Validation to Check User Inputs

New on the ITNewb.com site today is this new tutorial looking at generating session ID numbers and random passwords for your application using functions like mt_rand and mt_srand.