In this second excerpt from Advanced PHP Programming, George Schlossnagle offers advice on how to defend against both attacks and carelessness.

A new dialect of PHP, code-named P++, could be developed as a stricter variant of its dynamic predecessor, with more advanced features and less baggage. The proposal, being floated in the PHP ...

Fortunately, the malicious code was spotted quickly thanks to good code review practices and only impacted the development branch of PHP 8.1 which is not expected to be released until November and ...

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3] GNU Emacs Next up, we have a cross-platform, open-source IDE for you to write and compile PHP codes on. GNU Emacs was first designed for a GNU-based OS, but now it supports Windows 10. Talking ...

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When coding in PHP, there are a handful of string functions that I use again and again. Here are four that you can bookmark and reference for later: ...

CVE-2019-11043 is trivial to exploit — and a proof of concept is available. A buffer underflow bug in PHP could allow remote code-execution (RCE) on targeted NGINX servers. First discovered ...