The Code of a Ninja: Salt, Hash and Store Passwords Securely with Phpass
In this post to the CodeOfANinjs.com site, they walk you through password hashing, salting and storage using the PHPAss tool from OpenWall. The post itself is a bit older, but the content still...
View ArticleCal Evans: "Delivery Initiated" A word on having empathy for the users of...
In his latest post Cal Evans reminds us, as software developers, that our jobs aren't always about making the things we create about the best code or most tech. It's also about having empathy for...
View ArticleJoshua Thijssen: Symfony2: logging out
In this new post to his site Joshua Thijssen talks about something that's usually considered a common task and might be overlooked when it comes to security: logging out (specifically in Symfony-based...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: How to Implement User Log-in with PayPal
On the SitePoint PHP blog there's a new tutorial today showing you how to setup a user login through PayPal that lets users authenticate for your application through PayPal's systems. Curiosity is one...
View ArticleJulien Pauli: On PHP function calls
Julien Pauli has a new post today sharing an interesting function optimization he found using the Blackfire execution profiler. This blog post is a technical explanation of a PHP optimization found...
View ArticleJoshua Thijssen: Advanced user switching
Joshua Thijssen has a new post today with a "neat trick" that the Symfony Security component allows - switching (impersonating) another user programatically. This allows you to login as another user,...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: User Authentication in Symfony2 with UserApp.io
On the SitePoint PHP blog Daniel Sipose has written up a tutorial showing you how to use the UserApp.io service to authenticate users for your Symfony2 applications. UserApp.io is a handy user...
View ArticleNetTuts.com: Programming With Yii2: Integrating User Registration
NetTuts.com has posted the next part in their "Programming with Yii2" series today with this tutorial showing you how to integrate user registration into your sample application. This is part four of...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Efficient User Timelines in a PHP Application with Neo4j
In the latest post to the SitePoint PHP blog Christophe Willensen shows you how to use PHP and the Neo4j graph database to make efficient user timelines in your application. In this case, "timeline"...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Symfony2 Pre-registration and Invite System
The SitePoint PHP blog has kicked off a new series of posts today with part one of a set of tutorials showing you how to create a registration and invitation system with Symfony2. While they've talked...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Popular Users per Language and Region with Silex and Github
The SitePoint PHP blog has a new tutorial posted showing you how to use the data the GitHub API provides to find popular users, per language, in an area. His sample example is a simple Silex framework...
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