525. Making PHP 7.2 More Secure with LibSodium Extension - 5 Minutes Lately in PHP podcast episode 80
Updated on: 2017-03-08
Posted on: 2017-02-16
Many PHP developers still use the mcrypt extension for encrypting and decrypting data. However, that extension is based on a C library that is not being maintained anymore by its developers. PHP applications are at risk of being exposed to eventual vulnerabilities that may be discovered in mcrypt but its developers will not fix them.
A better alternative is to use the LibSodium extension proposed by the security expert Scott Arciszewski to become part of the core PHP distribution since PHP 7.2.
This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Christian Vigh (the PHP Innovation Award Winner of the Year of 2016) on the episode 80 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
In this episode they also talked about other proposals for future PHP versions like improving the mail() function with options passed using the 5th parameter, final modifier for class constants, type hinting for static objects, using namespaces for global functions, type hinting for arrays with values of the same type .
This article also contains a podcast summary as a text transcript and a 5 minute video of the summary.
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A better alternative is to use the LibSodium extension proposed by the security expert Scott Arciszewski to become part of the core PHP distribution since PHP 7.2.
This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Christian Vigh (the PHP Innovation Award Winner of the Year of 2016) on the episode 80 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
In this episode they also talked about other proposals for future PHP versions like improving the mail() function with options passed using the 5th parameter, final modifier for class constants, type hinting for static objects, using namespaces for global functions, type hinting for arrays with values of the same type .
This article also contains a podcast summary as a text transcript and a 5 minute video of the summary.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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Updated on: 2017-04-09
Posted on: 2017-02-15
Blog: PHP Termux API package blog
Package: PHP Termux API
The Termux application allows running many well known Linux applications on an Android phone, tablet or any other kind of device.
This allows running PHP either from the Termux shell as a console script or as a Web server.
Read this article to learn how to execute PHP scripts from inside a Android device and expose to PHP some Android functionalities using the Termux application.
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This allows running PHP either from the Termux shell as a console script or as a Web server.
Read this article to learn how to execute PHP scripts from inside a Android device and expose to PHP some Android functionalities using the Termux application.
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Updated on: 2017-02-14
Posted on: 2017-02-14
MySQL is by far the most popular database used in PHP applications. Part of PHP application documentation is the information of the underlying database schema.
This class makes it simpler to generate documentation about an application database by generating HTML to display the schema of tables, fields and indexes of a MySQL database.
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This class makes it simpler to generate documentation about an application database by generating HTML to display the schema of tables, fields and indexes of a MySQL database.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Updated on: 2017-02-13
Posted on: 2017-02-13
Well formed sentences are based on grammatically correct combination of verbs and nouns, thus forming what is called complete thoughts.
This package provides a solution for generating complete thoughts from verbs and nouns.
It also allows verifying if sentences may have been written by bots that generate fake text by checking if the combination of verb and noun words is present in sentences.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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This package provides a solution for generating complete thoughts from verbs and nouns.
It also allows verifying if sentences may have been written by bots that generate fake text by checking if the combination of verb and noun words is present in sentences.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Updated on: 2017-02-09
Posted on: 2017-02-09
Many video hosting sites like for instance YouTube can show videos with sub-titles provided by the authors. The subtitles may be submitted in several known formats.
This package allows PHP applications to create and edit subtitles in some formats like SRT and VTT.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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This package allows PHP applications to create and edit subtitles in some formats like SRT and VTT.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Updated on: 2017-02-25
Posted on: 2017-02-08
Since PHP 7 was introduced and PHP 5 end of support life was reached, many hosting companies dropped PHP 5 from their servers and PHP developers were forced to migrate their code to work with PHP 7.
One of the changes of PHP 7 was the discontinuation of the original MySQL extension. Developers had to choose to migrate their code to use either the MySQLi or and the PDO extension.
Read this article to learn about the differences and decide which is the best for you to migrate your code to work on PHP 7 or later, as well learn about some recommended packages that use PDO or MySQLi for performing common database purposes like backup, security, user registration and login, database abstraction, ORM (Object-Relational Mapping), etc..
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One of the changes of PHP 7 was the discontinuation of the original MySQL extension. Developers had to choose to migrate their code to use either the MySQLi or and the PDO extension.
Read this article to learn about the differences and decide which is the best for you to migrate your code to work on PHP 7 or later, as well learn about some recommended packages that use PDO or MySQLi for performing common database purposes like backup, security, user registration and login, database abstraction, ORM (Object-Relational Mapping), etc..
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Updated on: 2017-02-07
Posted on: 2017-02-07
YouTube is the most popular video hosting site, but Vimeo is also used by many video publishers.
Many users would like to be able to download videos from these sites and watch them offline, but the sites do not provide a good solution for that.
This package provides means for downloading videos from either YouTube or Vimeo using PHP scripts.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Many users would like to be able to download videos from these sites and watch them offline, but the sites do not provide a good solution for that.
This package provides means for downloading videos from either YouTube or Vimeo using PHP scripts.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Updated on: 2017-03-07
Posted on: 2017-02-01
All database applications should provide means to take backups of the database structure and contents, so there is a way to recover when there is an accident that causes database data loss.
This package provides an efficient solution to take MySQL database backups.
It can take backups of all or specific tables in a database. If a previous table backup exists, it may determine if the table has changed using the table checksum, and avoid making the backup in case the table did not change.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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This package provides an efficient solution to take MySQL database backups.
It can take backups of all or specific tables in a database. If a previous table backup exists, it may determine if the table has changed using the table checksum, and avoid making the backup in case the table did not change.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Updated on: 2017-01-31
Posted on: 2017-01-31
GitHub is the most popular repository for software projects. Nowadays many developers host their projects code in GitHub.
Many developers like to track the interest of their repositories are getting in GitHub.
This package provides means to get the repositories of a given user, as well the total number of stars and forks.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Many developers like to track the interest of their repositories are getting in GitHub.
This package provides means to get the repositories of a given user, as well the total number of stars and forks.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Updated on: 2017-01-30
Posted on: 2017-01-30
This is the January 2017 edition of the podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the latest outstanding PHP articles published recently.
In the edition they discuss articles about PHP performance comparison and evolution since PHP 5 to PHP 8 or PHP 7.2, a tool for helping to develop scalable PHP applications, tutorial on how to create a PHP secure login and registration system, and tutorial on processing Word Processing documents in RTF format.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles.
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In the edition they discuss articles about PHP performance comparison and evolution since PHP 5 to PHP 8 or PHP 7.2, a tool for helping to develop scalable PHP applications, tutorial on how to create a PHP secure login and registration system, and tutorial on processing Word Processing documents in RTF format.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles.
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