My brother Mark has put together a comparison of addslashes() alternatives over at his blog.  He starts off with:
I’ve seen a lot of people talking about mysql_real_escape_string() vs addslashes() vs addcslashes(). There seems to be a lot of real confusion about what these functions do (even with the php.net manual around), especially when it comes [...]

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I’m starting a new series today over at http://phpjobbook.com which will cover a number of job boards that are useful to PHP developers (in other words, they have listings for PHP jobs).  If you’ve got a favorite job board you’ve used with good results, let me know!
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I’ve recently been working on a project trying to take an existing customized wordpress site and create automated integration tests around parts of it.  I’m using phpUnderControl, phpUnit, Selenium RC, Firefox, Xvfb (virtaul frame buffer) and … well, I think that’s it.
So, phpUC is configured to do a checkout from svn on a commit, then [...]

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I started my “PHP Job Hunter’s Handbook” many moons ago, and had interest from PHP Architect last summer/fall about publishing it.  After some false starts in finishing it, we wrapped it up several weeks ago, and happily it’s ‘out there’.  Whew!
The perfectionist in me was somewhat reluctant about publishing it at first, but after several [...]

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I’ve been using PHP since early 1996, back in the PHP/FI days.  I’ve used it steadily over the years, sometimes full time and sometimes part time, but that’s been pretty much a primary language for me for 12 years now.  During that time I’ve seen a lot of language changes, some for better and some [...]

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Manuel Lemos did an interview with Maurício Garcia on the topic of PHP certification.  It’s good to see this sort of thing talked about more, and to get an ‘international’ point of view.  My view on the topic is somewhat necessarily limited by my geography and experiences, but seem to mirror Mauricio’s fairly closely.
My PHP [...]

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So, tomorrow (technically *today* in Australia!) is the date for PDF delivery of my brother’s new book - the PHP Architect’s Guide to Programming with Magento (I think that’s the full title).  More details here.  I’m really excited for him, as I know he put a lot of work over the past several months learning [...]

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I’ve been asked a couple time recently for a list of ‘web’ people that would be useful to follow.  Here’s a partial list of some people off the top of my head.  If you’re not on the list, and I follow you, and you’d like to be, just add yourself and what sort of stuff [...]

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This is the last in my MySQL conference series.  Brian Moon, author of Phorum and Sr Developer at Dealnews.com, sat down and gave a recap of his two presentations.  We have here nearly a full hour of his insights in to PHP/MySQL scalability, both with an app like Phorum and a more complex environment like [...]

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I’ve been meaning to do this some time, and finally found the time to do it - jobs.webdevradio.com is up and functional (though quite empty at this point!) One of the things I mentioned on my podcast (webdevradio.com) one more than one occasion is that I tend to attract recruiters. Rather than just [...]

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