Secunia.com: Slackware update for PHP5
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The Slackware group has released an update to their PHP5 packages according to this new release on the Secunia site:   Slackware has issued an update for php5. This fixes some vulnerabilities, where one has an unknown impact and others can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and cause a DoS (Denial of Service).   You can grab the updated packages via the original advisory and bring your installation up to date with the latest security fixes.
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Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:Smarty and MIME message integrationYour SayphpPhotoGalleryInterfacesIlariaParser 7just7.comaDB PDO like database abstractionSAMP Socket
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On the Zend Developer Zone, Cal Evans has posted a quick look at one of the new offerings from the Manning Publishing group - "PHP in Action".   My buddy Olivia over at Manning Publications sent us a present recently. They are working on the title PHP in Action and they sent us a chapter to share with you. PHP in Action is scheduled to release in April of this year but it's available now in "Manning Early Release Program", or MEAP. MEAP is a cool program that allows you to buy the book long before it is released and have access to the chapters as they are released. Then, when the final dead-tree edition ships, they will send you one. The great thing is, there is no additional cost for MEAP.   He links to the book's description on the Manning site and gives some credit to the authors, Dagfinn Reiersol with Marcus Baker and Chris Shiflett. And, of course, the link to the sample chapter from the book - a look at Design Patterns.
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Chris Shiflett has posted his own recap of the (just passed) php|works conference up in Toronto over on his blog.   I've been traveling non-stop since php|works, so I haven't had a chance to reflect on the conference, what I learned, who I met, and things like that. (Zak has been doing a good job of this lately, and I'd like to follow his lead.) I've probably forgotten more than I remember, but this is my recap.   Included in the things he mentions are:  The people he was able to meet (like Joshua Eichorn and Sebastian Bergmann) The talks he gave ("Truth about XSS" and "Agile PHP Testing") His interview with Cal Evans of the Zend Developer Zone The PHP 5 Certification and Wez Furlong's "Not PDO" talk
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On his blog today, Ilia Alshanetsky has posted an update on one of the last issues before PHP 5.2 is released - the Filter extension - and some of the problems that have surrounded it.    If you have been monitoring PHP's internal mailing list you probably know that over the last few weeks we've been locked in a stalemate in regard to the API revision of the filter extension brought to light by Dan from our documentation team. This is also the reason why despite this being early October PHP 5.2 is still not out.    Fortunately, after mediation with Derick and Pierre the two protagonists of the filter conundrum a compromised was finally reached.    He mentions the commit that was made to include it into the current build, and no complaints have been lodged against it. He also comments that, with this isse out of the way, developers can look for PHP 5.2RC5 out as soon as this Thursday (10.05.06). Ilia also gives a brief tour of the filter extension's functions.
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Ilia Alshanetsky has noted that the latest release canidate for the PHP 5.2.x series, PHP 5.2.5RC1, is now available for download.   This RC includes a fair number of fixes since our last release and predominantly works on improving the stability of the 5.2 tree as well as including a small number of minor security fixes. I'd like to ask everyone to test this release against your code and setups, we are aiming for a quick release cycle and user feedback is critical for a successful release.   You can download this new edition directly from here (no Windows builds yet).
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A quick post from janschneider.de talks about questions regarding the PHP5 compatibility of Horde, IMP, or other applications on the Horde mailing list
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This week's edition of PHP Magazine's PHPBarnstormer has been released - Issue #22.
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Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:PHPThreaderVery Simple CaptchaPHP ThreaderMultiCurl class libraryPersistenciaOfile classSecurity_TokenPHP poppassd clientTree AJAXClass Treeview
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Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:phpTwitterGoogle Checkout ButtonPOP3Remote MySQL QueryPlatform_pearDatabase FunctionsArIdentifierMySQLClassMenuTreeWhoCalledUsNamespaceSimgWidgetsLarge Database BackupSite ToolsgStats
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As Ed Finkler points out there's a new article posted (written by him) on the C7Y site (from php|architect) talking about his Inspekt library - an introduction to the filtering library showing how to help make your applications safer.   Inspekt is a library for PHP4 and PHP5 that aims to make safe input handing easier, and unsafe actions more difficult. Inspekt establishes a new development approach by wrapping input within "cage" objects, and requiring the developer to use validation and filtering methods to test and manipulate the input data. This article provides a brief introduction to Inspekt and its capabilities.   The article covers all of the basics - what the library can do for you, how it integrates into your application and how it helps to protect you from potential problems with the data in your superglobals ($_GET, $_POST, $_REQUEST, etc).
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PHP Magazine has posted their latest issue of the PHPBarnstormer (Issue #19):
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Sebastian Bergmann has posted the results of some benchmarking on the compilation he's done on the branches of PHP from version 3.0 all the way up to 5.3-CVS.   As people keep asking me for an update to my previous benchmarks (PHP / GCC / ICC Benchmark, PHP 5.1 / GCC Benchmark (Update), and PHP 5.1 Performance, I quickly ran a new benchmark today.   He rendered the results out into a series of charts defining the number of total seconds taken for the compile and how long each of the components took. It's impressive to see how much of a jump there was between the 3.0 series and 4.3.   He also includes his compile settings (and machine information) as well as the numbers for the results if you'd like to graph them out yourself.
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Latest PEAR Releases:Config 1.10.11Auth 1.5.2Net_LDAP 0.7.3HTML_Progress2 2.3.0HTML_CSS 1.2.0Console_Getopt 1.2.3DB_Table 1.5.0RC3Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_DataObject 0.2.0PhpDocumentor 1.4.0a2PHP_LexerGenerator 0.3.3PEAR_PackageFileManager 1.6.1Games_Chess 1.0.1PHP_Parser 0.2.1Mail_mimeDecode 1.5.0Mail_Mime 1.5.0Auth_PrefManager 1.2.0