I blogged previously on using PHP on the command line, but I did not cover using PHP to access the file system in that post in the interest of blog post size. I use this post to cover some of the ...

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PHP web scripts lose performance for a lot of reasons. The bottleneck can be in database queries, web page access or even slow algorithms. When performance drops, the user gets frustrated waiting for ...

When you execute a PHP script from another PHP script and pass data using URL parameters, those parameters are visible on the address bar. A user can see and change the parameters. It's possible to ...

Perl is a language often associated with text processing and CGI. PHP is a language often associated with dynamic Web pages. Both are very popular with Web developers. Often, each of these languages ...

Web sites are generally more compelling and useful when content is dynamically controlled. Learn the basics of generating dynamic content with this simple file-driven example in PHP and lay the ...

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Learn how to troubleshoot Apache 2 when it’s not executing PHP files with this easy-to-follow, step-by-step tutorial. How many times have you set up a web server with Apache 2 only to find out that ...

Ransomware criminals have quickly weaponized an easy-to-exploit vulnerability in the PHP programming language that executes malicious code on web servers, security researchers said. As of Thursday, ...