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Vetting form input using PHP
Forms provide a really good way for a hacker to try and fiddle with the internal ‘gubbings’ of your PHP code both in a normal PHP software development situation and customising WordPress with PHP. The following functions allow a PHP developer to clean up the form’s data before they start to process it with their PHP […]
Checking if a URL has certain string within it using PHP
This PHP example checks the url has ‘fabbro.uk’ in it. Alternatively you can shorten this to if (strpos($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’], “car”) !== false){ echo ‘string found’; }
Optimisation by unrolling a PHP loop
A good PHP programmer or developer will use a number of techniques to ensure the code produced is efficient. This optimisation technique is a space-time tradeoff. The technique is used to optimise PHP program’s run-time speed, but at the expense of the size of the code or code length. Instructions that control loops (branching penalties) […]
MySQLi?
MySQL is owned by Oracle Corporation. It is is a full-featured database management system that is the world’s second most widely used. MySQL is now deprecated. It’s important that PHP developer use MySQLi on new website so they will continue to work after the next version of PHP is released. It may be advisable to […]
What is LAMP?
LAMP is simply an acronym made up of for the four components of a solution stack, the collection of software that is used to build a software project usually open-source software. In this case they are: Linux, Apache, MySQLi and PHP/Perl/Python
What to look for in a good Freelance PHP developer and things to avoid
Some LAMP/PHP developers use short tags, a sort of short hand. However, you may find that the PHP code works on your current web server, but problems arise when you migrate to a new one. This feature is best avoided. mySQL has already been mentioned, ensure your developer uses MySQLi or PDO when developing any […]