CSV files are often employed to import data from an application such as MS Excel into a database. Rob Gravelle demonstrates how to write a PHP script that reads in a CSV file and converts its contents into a multi-dimensional array for insertion into a WordPress database.
Application Architecture
In this section, you will find articles, tutorials, and snippets covering all areas of Application Architecture in PHP.
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It is almost an implicit standard for a modern web app/service to be fault tolerant and load balanced. Depending on the technologies involved, achieving a proper level of each can be difficult. This series will explore a few ways to handle each in PHP.
The “remember me” feature on user login forms (long-term persistent authentication) is one of the most common and convenient web authentication features. It allows the user to be constantly authenticated in the application without having to enter username and password in each session. The feature is based on cookies and handling cookie data in PHP. Since we are talking about authentication, security is important and any possible security issues and solutions will be covered in this tutorial.
DooPHP is a high performance open source PHP framework. It is also a rapid development framework for PHP application development. It uses common design patterns like MVC and ORM. The framework helps to write less code for performing tasks and also reduce development costs.
One of the most common security features during the user registration process is e-mail verification. It is important to create it according to industry best practices in order to avoid potential security risks. Let’s discuss these best practices and see how to create e-mail verification in PHP.
Learn more about the ins and outs of the main message services available in PHP–Semaphore, Gearman, and JMS (through Quercus and PHPMQ).
WebSocket is a relatively new technology that enables a persistent connection between client and server over TCP protocol. In other words, it allows bi-directional socket connections to a server, where both server and client can send the data at any time. This article will focus on WebSocket’s security issues and possible solutions to its vulnerabilities.
about lambda expressions and lambda PHP functions, then step through different example–from basic lambda functions, recursive lambda functions, lambda functions in PHP arrays and in PHP classes.
PHP has always had a few simple ways to implement password hashing to an extent. MD5 and SHA1 are examples of this, but the security of these methods is not what it should be. Many developers use MD5 and SHA1 without even adding a SALT, which is a string that helps to add complexity to the application. Some developers use something as awful as base 64 encoding and decoding simply because they can be easily manipulated. But these things are not secure folks, and the clever people who want to hack your site or steal your money can see right through them. Yes, they can.
In my previous article, I expanded a few ideas around test helpers and how to use setUp() and tearDown(). However, we still stayed in the realm of things built in to PHPUnit. Here, I want to expand on a helper function I include in most of my main testing classes that allows for the concept of setUp(), but grants a bit more flexibility.