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A new update of PHP5 has been released.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.4:

• Fixed a floating point exception inside wordwrap() (Reported by Mattias Bengtsson)
• Fixed several integer overflows inside the GD extension (Reported by Mattias Bengtsson)
• Fixed size calculation in chunk_split() (Reported by Gerhard Wagner)
• Fixed integer overflow in str[c]spn(). (Reported by Stanislav Malyshev)
• Fixed money_format() not to accept multiple %i or %n tokens. (Reported by Stanislav Malyshev)
• Fixed zend_alter_ini_entry() memory_limit interruption vulnerability. (Reported by Stefan Esser)
• Fixed INFILE LOCAL option handling with MySQL extensions not to be allowed when open_basedir or safe_mode is active. (Reported by Stanislav Malyshev)
• Fixed session.save_path and error_log values to be checked against open_basedir and safe_mode (CVE-2007-3378) (Reported by Maksymilian Arciemowicz)
• Fixed a possible invalid read in glob() win32 implementation (CVE-2007-3806) (Reported by shinnai)
• Fixed a possible buffer overflow in php_openssl_make_REQ (Reported by zatanzlatan at hotbrev dot com)
• Fixed an open_basedir bypass inside glob() function (Reported by dr at peytz dot dk)
• Fixed a possible open_basedir bypass inside session extension when the session file is a symlink (Reported by c dot i dot morris at durham dot ac dot uk)
• Improved fix for MOPB-03-2007.
• Corrected fix for CVE-2007-2872.

You can take a look at the top 20 Symfony plugins here.There is a new Turkish website with a very interesting content. A video sharing platform, but the thing is that all the videos is about a subject and the creator of this video is an expert of that subject. Cool idea…

As you know, using templates by creating dynamic websites is a very good way for optimization. Since a long time there have been many template engines but one of them was always one step further and was developed in a very professional manner, Smarty.

Yes, I’ve used it also and I think it is a well-coded, detailed, fascinating engine.

Now, I’ve heard a new one and in a very short time it gained many users and is developing very quickly. It is called Blitz. I couldn’t have the time to use it, but I have a new project idea and maybe I can try Blitz as a template engine in this project. The chart at left actually took my interest about using it, too.

However, before using it, I recommend all of my readers to read this blog entry written by Rob Peck.

I am a big fan for books but I am a little selective about its content depth and quality. Because of that I will recommend you some books about PHP and webdesign for reference and guide which I think, would help you a lot.

Here is the list:

• The PHP Anthology, Volume II: Applications (Anthology)
  by Harry Fuecks
• The PHP Anthology, Volume I: Foundations (Anthology)
  by Harry Fuecks
• Professional Ajax
  by Nicholas C. Zakas
• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
  by Martin Fowler
• Advanced PHP Programming
  by George Schlossnagle
• PHP 5 Power Programming (Bruce Perens Open Source)
  by Andi Gutmans
• PHP Unleashed
  by John Coggeshall
• Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design
  by Eric Meyer
• AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications
  by Cristian Darie, Bogdan Brinzarea

I hope you will take a look at these books and find them useful, too.

I started to post to this blog in English, but I am currently considerin to either switching it to Turkish or posting some posts in Turkish in another category.

The main reason to do that is giving a good Turkish PHP and web programming web-source.

The vast majority of my readers are Turkish PHP newbies or coders who are still waiting fresh ideas about PHP.

I am thinking about ways to publish my blog in both languages. I hope I’ll find a solution as soon as possible.

I lost my PHP scripts archive; also all self-coded projects… If anybody ever downloaded the project files/packages please let me know and send them to me.

Thank you in advance.

(Hint: I’ll start to send more about PHP and also my projects in PHP.)

Here they are:

As I started this blog,  I had the idea to share some PHP tricks, articles, tips and even code snippets.

Beside my personal blog entries I will post them either, thus I have now decided to tag/categorize them and not create another page.