Regular expression is the basic functionality of pattern comparison. PHP offers two sets of functions for regular expressions – POSIX style and Perl style. Both types have slightly different syntax and this post should give basic overview of the POSIX one.
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Many of my customers hold data in Excel files. Then, when they decide to build a web based, database driven project controlled by PHP, ask me to move their Excel data into the MySQL. Whether it’s possible and how to do it, will be the content of this post.
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Previous post Basic Security Related PHP Directives showed us the basic set of PHP directives which significantly affects security of not PHP apps only. This article increases the spectrum of PHP security related configuration directives.
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Configuration of PHP is one of the significant security breakpoints. There is no doubt that ignoring this can lead to serious security consequencies. I’m not talking just about web applications vulnerabilities. Wrong PHP setup can allow to take your server under control by some invader. This article is trying to help you to do more for your calm sleep.
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PHP Fatal Error: Call to undefined function utf8_encode() error message balked me to run new installation of web software. Why and how to get rid of this error is described in this post.
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