Secure PHP development : building 50 practical applications

* Offers fifty practical and secure PHP applications that readers can immediately put to use * Explains the entire life cycle of each PHP application, including requirements, design, development, maintenance, and tuning * Reviews application development line-by-line and module-by-module to help readers understand specific coding practices and requirements * Applications can be readily adapted to many real-world business situations * CD-ROM contains fifty ready-to-use PHP applications, an evaluation version of Zend tools, and the latest versions of PHP, Apache, and MySQL It's a hacker's dream come true: over one million Web sites are now vulnerable to attack through recently discovered flaws in the PHP scripting language. So how do you protect your site? In this book, bestselling author Mohammed Kabir provides all the tools you'll need to close this security gap. He presents a collection of 50 secure PHP applications that you can put to use immediately to solve a variety of practical problems. And he includes expert tips and techniques that show you how to write your own secure and efficient applications for your organization. This text describes the entire nuts-and-bolts process of each PHP application life cycle: requirements, design, development, maintenance and tuning. PHP BEGAN AS A PERSONAL home page scripting tool.