Mark Hawkins’ Blog

A great resource for everything PHP is the site PHPDeveloper.org (which is why I have the RSS feed on the blog) and have found a lot (loads!) of interesting articles from the site. I bookmark a lot of them at my del.icio.us account and can be found here.

Sometimes it’s good to mention particular articles and there is one I came across recently that I think is worthy of specific note.

Security is a big talking point at the moment in all aspects of computers and the Internet and when it comes to Web Programming there are certain areas that need to be looked at even with basic scripts such as SQL Injections, Cross site scripting (XSS), Form Vaildation etc. What can happen though is that programmers can end up constantly re-inventing the wheel when it comes to these issues but there is something out there that can help at least with Form Validation anyway, Pear::HTML_QuickForm, and there is an article that I came across via PHPDeveloper.org from the Zend Developer Zone entitled Generating and Validating Web Forms With PEAR HTML_QuickForm that gives a good overview of this useful PEAR module.