Is there an easier way to do this? You’d better believe it. The ability to include the contents of one document in another document is something that can make site maintenance much easier. The concept is simple – have one set of code to maintain rather than the same code all over the place. Then, ‘include’ that one piece of code everywhere you need it rather than having the code (more…)

In this tutorial, you’ll continue working on the National Exasperator’s online store. You’ll work on two administrative pages that allow employees of the National Exasperator to add new products to the database, and to edit products already in the database. This tutorial assumes you’ve already completed parts I and II of the PHP Tutorial. If not, start with phpTutorial1.pdf, follow the instructions for preparing (more…)

In this tutorial, you’ll continue the work you started in the last chapter. The National Exasperator’s online store requires two dynamic pages. The first will display a list of all products available on the site. From that page, visitors can jump to a detailed description of an item for sale by clicking its name. You’ll learn how to create both basic and advanced recordsets and take advantage of some of Dreamweaver’s (more…)

1 JSAPI Java Proxy Installation & Configuration The following procedure details the steps necessary to install and configure the JSAPI Java proxy. How to Install the JSAPI Java Proxy Note This procedure describes installation of the JSAPI Java Proxy using the Tomcat web server on a Windows-based computer, with a current Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed. 1) Download and install the Tomcat web server for Windows XP. Select the default settings (more…)

Who Am I? (Why Listen to Me?) Author of PHP Security (O’Reilly) and HTTP Developer’s Handbook (Sams) Author of Security Corner (php|architect) and Guru Speak (PHP Magazine) Founder of PHP Security Consortium Member of Zend Advisory Board and an author of the Zend PHP Certification Founder and President of Brain Bulb, The PHP Consultancy Talk Outline Introduction Two Best Programming Practices Two Most Common Vulnerabilities Lightning Attacks PHP (more…)

Introduction PHP is a server-side scripting language that has proven its popularity and success through explosive growth. In the last five years, the number of domains using PHP to generate Web pages has grown from under two million to nearly 20 million (http://www.php.net/usage.php), and there are no signs of that trend slowing down. PHP long ago moved from a hobbyist tool for creating dynamic Web pages to a commercially viable option for large (more…)

1 Background The web programming language PHP is used by a lot of developers today, which means that a lot of web applications are made in PHP. There is a threat against PHP applications because it is not that hard to perform an attack if the programmed application is not protected. We both have an experience of programming PHP, but the security part with all threats that lures out there and how you protect your script has been blurry for us. Our background with PHP is that we both enjoy making web application programmed in the language. We have (more…)

Chapter 1 Introduction E-commerce programming represents what is probably the most creative outlet for a developer. Implementing an e-commerce solution for yourself, or for a client, requires creative solutions to stay one step ahead of your competitors in the everchanging online world. Enticing potential customers to “turn-over” and become customers of your store calls for the best user experience. Organization, searching, fast load times, attractive (more…)

What is PHP? ? PHP Hypertext Pre-Processor ? Developed initially by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994 ? Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski in 1997 ? Thousands of contributors worldwide ? 4-5 million developers ? 20-25 million web sites over 5+ million IPs? PHP is a Scripting Language ? Not compiled, interpreted ? Easy way to get database info to Web ? Short learning curve as OO is optional ? Forgiving and intuitive code structure ? Similar in nature (more…)

Chapter 3 – Developing PHP Web Application With the DB Visual ARCHITECT (DB-VA) you can develop quality PHP Web Application much faster, better and cheaper. All DB-VA generated code, configuration file and persistent layer library are deployable to Apache Server with PHP. DB-VA generates all PHP code for accessing database. You do not need to write SQL to insert, query, update or delete the record. All code you need to program is plain (more…)