International PHP Conference 2003 14
Sebastian Bergmann writes "The Call for Papers for the International PHP Conference 2003 Spring Edition has started. The conference will be held on May 8th and 9th in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Like its sister event, the International PHP Conference 2003 Fall Edition, the conference will gather both the PHP Development Team and PHP enthusiasts from all over the world for two days of discussion, sessions and workshops."
More Information (Score:5, Informative)
They really need a session on security. (Score:4, Interesting)
Lots of articles about PHP security are a bit vague about things.
Re:They really need a session on security. (Score:4, Informative)
Try is_int() [php.net] or is_numeric() [php.net]. The latter will return true for strings that are all number as well (ie. '123').
You can also convert that string to a number via:
Validation/filtration is pretty easy in PHP. I agree though, the tutorials usually don't provide enough references as to what functions are useful. Regexes can only take you so far (quite far albeit) before your application shows a noticeable drop in performance.
It would be nice to see PHP Security added to the list of topics.
Re:They really need a session on security. (Score:1)
Alphabetic: A-Za-z
Numeric: 0-9
Underscore: \_
hyphen: \-
any other char: \yourchar
etc...
You can do this yourself easily without even thinking about it in any language with regex support, if you ever find you need custom, flexible input-validating functions.
Regular expressions are powerful stuff.
Daniel
PHB Conference (Score:2, Funny)
Oh, wait. Never mind.
PHP Wishlist (Score:2, Interesting)
I've been holding off on PHP in favor of perl now for a significant amount of time because the lack of control in PHP scares me. There are some major sticking points: oop, variable scoping (BIGGIE) that I want to see come out of the next PHP release. Hopefully some meaningful discussion can be made on security issues as well.
However, the biggest thing the PHP community needs to start serious dialog on is how to meld it with the business world. PHP has so much potential and so much to offer the business world, but it won't get there until we shed the "kiddie" language aura that surrounds it.
We need dialog on how to make it a serious language in short...
Re:PHP Wishlist (Score:3, Informative)
The first thing ... (Score:1)
My company has used PHP since the very early days, and we've enjoyed year-over-year growth since then (granted, that has almost little to do with our choice to use PHP).
To claim that PHP isn't "ready for prime time" or whatever other crap gets spewed these days, is disingeneous. Maybe if you tell us what you think is missing, we can point you in the right direction.
Re:The first thing ... (Score:1)
Ummm... or maybe we should try what I REALLY said: that the PHP community needs to start serious dialog on how to meld it with the business world. As in: PHP IS ready for the primetime, now the community needs to talk about GETTING it there, because like it or not... it's not there. Again, this is because it has a kiddie language attached to it. Attitudes like "PHP is too easy to learn - it must be weak" or "PHP is just a beginner's language, it doesn't try to provide real functionality" must be eliminated.
PHP, when learned properly, does not have the limitations that people place on it. However, now the PHP community needs to sell that point to the folks who count - everyone's favorites - the PHB's with money.