In this article, we’ll look at why it’s so important to filter anything that’s incorporated into our applications. In particular, we’ll look at how to validate and sanitize foreign data in PHP. Never (ever!) trust foreign input in your application. ...
When working with PHP applications, we often need to open a local file and read data from it or write data to it. In this article, we’ll briefly review the tools available for doing this. PHP offers us three native ...
In this quick tip on PHP error reporting, we’ll look at how to use the tools available in PHP to handle errors in a controlled way and thereby save hours of debugging. PHP is, by definition, an “exception-light” programming language. ...
In this quick tip article, we’ll explain the basics of timezone usage in PHP. Working with timezones is an essential skill for every programmer working with web applications. As PHP has been used mostly for web applications throughout the years, ...
In this PHP quick tip, we’ll cover how to check whether or not variables are set, and if so, what their values are — which is a very common task in programming. When checking if a variable is set in ...
