server side scripting

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.

I often get asked by potential employees and clients, why we do PHP and mostly PHP only. A valid question, of course and my first answer usually is (besides the "historical reasons" one), that nowadays all those server side (scripting) languages are mainly the glue layer between the front-end (the browser part) and the back-end (your storage and "database" solution) and not the one and only defining factor if your project will be a success.

Or not.

On DevShed today there's a new tutorial loking at an advanced form of a very common need in PHP development - form validation.