Interesting things Every PHP Developer does
Ankita Sharda
Senior Human Resource Executive || Hired for Adidas & KPMG (ex-clients) | MBA, Talent Acquisition- Corporate HR.
1. Create Your Own PHP Framework
In the past couple of years, PHP has moved on to provide a lot more viable and usable frameworks for rapid web application development. This is a 12-part series of tutorials that work together with the Symfony2 components to give you an idea of how to build your very own PHP framework. There is a lot to learn from these tutorials, and they’re definitely not for the light-hearted.
2. Seven Ways to Screw Up BCrypt
There are numerous articles on the web about how to properly use bcrypt in PHP. So this time, rather than writing yet-another-how-to-use-bcrypt article, the author gets straight to the point about the errors and mistakes when it comes to using BCrypt in your projects.
3. Preventing CSRF Attacks
Learning about development security is essential, and one of the things you will encounter a lot of the time are specifically Cross-Site-Request-Forgery (CSRF) attacks, learn how to overcome them and prepare for them whatever the project it is that you’re working on.
4. Use Env
To cut a short story even shorter, using env is going to guarantee that the script will always find the PHP folder/path on your server, can come in handy for bigger projects that are spread among st many servers.
5. Compser primer
Composer is something special in the world of PHP. It has changed the way we handle application dependencies, and quelled the tears of many PHP developers. So in this tutorial you’re getting a high-quality primer from one of the leading minds in PHP development, though mostly Laravel focused.
6. composer versions
This is a quick tutorial on how to become a better Composer user, and also some insight on why using branch-alias might be a good idea. Goes together well with the previous Composer tutorial we looked at.
7. Predicting Random Numbers in PHP
If you’re a Zend developer, this is a nice security article on how to work with the mt_rand() function call in PHP, see the article for more details.
8. A 20 Point List for Preventing XSS in PHP
Another one about development security, this time it’s about Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), and how to prevent it within your projects – even the smaller ones. It’s a rundown of 20 important things to remember when it comes to coding stuff that’s secure and reliable.