7 Laravel Features to Enhance the Security of Your Application

September 8, 2019  No Comments

In the world of web development, ensuring the security of your application is a top priority. Laravel, a popular PHP framework, comes with a range of built-in features that can help you enhance the security of your applications. In this article, we’ll discuss seven powerful Laravel features that you can use to level up your app’s safety.

  1. CSRF Protection:

Laravel’s built-in CSRF protection guards your application against Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks. To enable this feature, use the @csrf directive in your forms.…

What are some limitations of PHP?

What are some limitations of PHP?

, August 12, 2013  No Comments

Recently I answered a question on quora. I am reproducing it here again.

In my view question is not complete and does not provide context which has to be evaluated to answer.

So I am writing this answer based on two assumptions.

First of all I am assuming that questioner is evaluating few programming languages and wants to make a decision which language to use or learn?

One of the major feature of PHP is also its biggest limitation. It is loose type and does automatic data type conversion in most of the situations.…

Drupal vs Zend : which one should be used for application development?

Drupal vs Zend : which one should be used for application development?

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“You have done that specific site in Zend, don’t you think our application is also suitable for Zend instead of Drupal”, I just got this email from a prospective client.

This question has been asked to me many times. I am a big fan of Drupal as well Zend, so this question always put me in my difficult zone. As I know both, I really can not take a stand against any one of them. Technically speaking, both are capable of handing any kind of project, although both have their pros and cons.…

PHP Functions to work with PHP Arrays

PHP Functions to work with PHP Arrays

, November 12, 2012  1 Comment

This posts was written in year 2006 on 20th May. In one of my server crash, I lost my posts, Today I got it recovered from Archive.org, and representing it again.

 

Today, I am going to write about array PHP functions, these functions allow you to interact with and manipulate arrays in various ways.
Arrays are essential for storing, managing, and operating on sets of variables.

What are Arrays?

This is very easy to tell but sometime it is really difficult to understand the dynamics of arrays, after functions, arrays are one of the greatest mechanism of programming to solve the problem of data maintenance and presentation.…

How to optimize all databases and tabels on mysql server?

How to optimize all databases and tabels on mysql server?

,,,,,,, September 13, 2012  No Comments

Optimization of database tables in mysql is a process which has to be carried out regularly to make your database in good health.

According to mysql manual,

OPTIMIZE TABLE should be used if you have deleted a large part of a table or if you have made many changes to a table with variable-length rows (tables that have VARCHAR, VARBINARY, BLOB, or TEXT columns). Deleted rows are maintained in a linked list and subsequent INSERT operations reuse old row positions. You can use OPTIMIZE TABLE to reclaim the unused space and to defragment the data file.

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Using PHP and Java in the Same App with PHP/Java Bridge

Using PHP and Java in the Same App with PHP/Java Bridge

,, April 3, 2012  No Comments

In this article you will learn how to install and configure the PHP/Java Bridge and how to use Java classes in PHP scripts in a demo application. To use the PHP/Java bridge, you should have knowledge of Java SE and the PHP5 core, as well as how they interact.

PHP 4 supported an extension for combining PHP with Java, but to combine PHP with Java in PHP 5  you should install the PHP/Java Bridge, which the website describes as:”… an implementation of a streaming, XML-based network protocol, which can be used to connect a native script engine, for example PHP, Scheme or Python, with a Java virtual machine.”…

Integrating Zend Framework with Drupal and WordPress

Integrating Zend Framework with Drupal and WordPress

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Zend Framework is not only a framework but a robust library for many kind of operations and services. While working with Drupal or WordPress sometime we found that a good library for one particular operation is already available in Zend Framework.

You can easily use Zend Framework library in your projects with bothering about its app framework and MVC structure. Drupal and WordPress both have mechanism to use Zend framework in them without doing any major work.

Drupa module for Zend Framework

Its very easy to setup and use.…

PHP Functions to work with PHP functions

PHP Functions to work with PHP functions

,,, July 9, 2009  No Comments

In this article, I am going to write about the functions using which you can get the information about php functions.

For a full list of PHP functions you can visit http://www.zend.com/phpfunc/

Using these functions you can query the stats/status of your functions, these functions are very useful in dynamic application creation.

For example, using func_get_arg and func_num_args functions you can simulate the function overloading in PHP.

Read a good example for http://www.dubi.org/php-function-overloading

Functions I will write in this article are :-

get_defined_functions();

You want to how many functions are in your installation of PHP, just call this function, it will return an array of all php functions you can call.…

Use Exit after redirecting user via header function

Use Exit after redirecting user via header function

, June 18, 2008  No Comments

Some weeks ago I got an old PHP application to work with. I was asked to look for the potential problems and bottlenecks in the application. So I decide to use APD as a profiler for the application, after installing the APD on that server. I enabled profiler on one of the reportedly slow page.

That page was meant to be displayed and executed only if user is logged in and session variables are set. If we don’t found user session then user was being redirected to Login page of the application.…

Using SQL abstraction and CRUD factory classes is a good practice?

Using SQL abstraction and CRUD factory classes is a good practice?

,, July 6, 2007  No Comments

This question again struck me today, somebody just throw a simple question about EXPLAIN statement in MySQL and in hast I relate that to DESCRIBE. When that person cut the line of phone, I suddenly realize my mistake.

I am working with PHP and MySQL since last seven years then why this happen to me? This is because I am not using MySQL frequently, although it is the integral part of almost every application I am working on. I am fairly away from MySQL queries because I am using my factory classes or framework like cakephp which does not require me to write the SQL queries.…

PHP4 and PHP5 version conflicts and why we should stop using PHP 4

PHP4 and PHP5 version conflicts and why we should stop using PHP 4

,, June 14, 2007  No Comments

PHP 5 is in the market since many years, but it still has to capture the market.

Why? Is it not efficient version of PHP language?

What are main reasons behind slow-adoption of PHP version 5.

I am compiling a list of reasons; you can also send me the reason why you have moved to PHP5 or why you are not able to do that?

I will write about that list in my coming articles.…

How to create a file upload progress bar in any version of PHP?

How to create a file upload progress bar in any version of PHP?

,, May 19, 2007  No Comments

In this article I am going to write my experience with a work in which I was supposed to do file upload progress bar.

First of all I consider using APC then came to know about PECL extension uploadprogress

Unfortunately both were not possible for me as I have no control on the server on which it was supposed to run.

Tweaking with installed version of PHP or up gradation of PHP was also ruled out.

In India we have a word which is very common in use whenever someone is in a deadlock, the magic word is ‘Jugad’, if simply translated into English, it will mean ‘system’, but in contextual meaning it stands for ‘Smart Work’.…