Monthly Archives: July 2013

The Negative Influence of WordPress on PHP

Posted on 31 Jul 2013 by hakre

The current The TIOBE Programming Community Index for July 2013 shows an increase for PHP, gaining grounds fast and as an ongoing trend over the last year: If compared to January 2013, PHP is the fastest climber with an increase … Continue reading →

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Atomic deploys at Etsy

Posted on 23 Jul 2013 by hakre

Atomic deploys at Etsy

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Mitigating XPath Injection Attacks in PHP

Posted on 11 Jul 2013 by hakre

PHP has two libxml based extensions that allow to execute XPath 1.0 expressions: DOM (by the DOMXPath class) and SimpleXML (with its xpath() method). Both extensions are prone to XPath Injection Attacks, a common attack form. Albeit all this, and … Continue reading →

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SimpleXML and JSON Encode in PHP – Part III and End

Posted on 10 Jul 2013 by hakre

The previous two parts (Part I; Part II) did outline PHP’s standard behaviour when JSON encoding a SimpleXMLElement with json_encode(). As outlined this does not always fits the encoding needs and for some potential problems some workarounds have been showed. … Continue reading →

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SimpleXML and JSON Encode in PHP – Part II

Posted on 9 Jul 2013 by hakre

In the previous post (Part I) I was giving a little overview for common woes turning a SimpleXMLElement into JSON when XML structural information is available that JSON is not capable to encode easily. The explanations given there were intended … Continue reading →

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SimpleXML and JSON Encode in PHP – Part I

Posted on 9 Jul 2013 by hakre

With SimpleXMLElement it is often easy and looks like a very quick way to turn some XML into JSON. But not everything in PHP that has an easy interface works out of the box. In this three part series I’ll … Continue reading →

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