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The top 20 PHP App Insecurity

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

Ed Finkler, for the past couple of weeks, has been collecting data from the NIST NVD to get stats on PHP application vulnerabilities. In his blog,
he released the top 20 PHP security issues statistics.

The data covers only reported vulnerabilities, between April 1 2006 and April 1 2007.

Thanks for the nice work!

Google launches the AJAX Feed API

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007


This morning we launched the Google AJAX Feed API, an API that takes the pain out of developing mashups in JavaScript. Now you can mash up feeds using only a few lines of JavaScript rather than dealing with complex server-side proxies.

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PHP “__toString” magic method: not so magic before 5.2.0

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

I was confident that using one of php5’s magic methods, __toString() would just work, but the fact is that the following code works in php version 5.2.1 but not in 5.1.6:

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