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Student Suspended Over Suspected Use of PHP

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Vikram Vaswani - PhP101 series has a pretty good tutorial at Zend.com on Cookies and Sessions that may be of value to you.

Party Time

Maybe you heard this at the last party you went to: "HTTP is a stateless protocol, and the Internet is a stateless development environment".

No? Hmmm. Obviously, you don't go to the right parties.

In simple language, all this means is that HTTP, the HyperText Transfer Protocol that is the backbone of the Web, is unable to retain a memory of the identity of each client that connects to a Web site,  Read More...

[13-Jul-2004] PHP Development Team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 4.3.8. This release is made in response to several security issues that have been discovered since the 4.3.7 release. All users of PHP are strongly encouraged to upgrade to PHP 4.3.8 as soon as possible.

Don't be in an all-fired hurry to migrate -- just yet :) The bug reports are coming in already (of course). John Lim writes "Looks as if the bug reports are coming in. Here's a serious one: HTTP authentication is broken. Expect a PHP 5.0.1 or 5.0.0 patch level 1 real soon now. There is also a link to the discussion over on Slashdot about the release - complete with both sides of the story slashdot's bile and blessings on the PHP5 release.

The following articles will provide you with valuable information on how to migrate to PHP 5 from previous versions Read More...

Roadsend announced their commercial PHP Implentation yesterday ($399 for 1 year license).

"The Roadsend Compiler offers a new, commercially supported implementation of the PHP language. It retains the powerful features that long-time PHP developers are used to, while offering significant advantages over the open source implementation to now make PHP a truly viable alternative to other compiled languages. With the Roadsend Compiler, developers can create native stand alone applications, libraries and web applications that require no interpreter. Because the Roadsend Compiler is compatible with open source PHP 4.3.7, existing code may be used in compiled products."

I often receive requests for a good survey module. Well, this is not a nuke module, but it could be converted to one with a little effort. From my brief looking, I think you might find this useful. Survey System (UCCASS) Read More...