Your in-depth guide to designing and developing secure PHP applications t’s a hacker’s dream come true: over one million Web sites are now vulnerable to attack through recently discovered flaws in the PHP scripting language. So how do you protect your site? In this book, bestselling author Mohammed Kabir provides all the tools you’ll need to close this security gap. He presents a collection of 50 secure PHP applications that you can put to use immediately to solve a variety of practical problems. And he includes expert tips and techniques that show you how to write your own secure and efficient applications for your organization.

You’ll learn how to:

• Implement the featured applications in business environments such as intranets, Internet Web sites, and system administrations

• Develop e-mail and intranet solutions using PHP

• Determine the importance of certain coding practices, coding styles, and coding security requirements

• Follow the entire process of each PHP application life cycle from requirements, design, and development to maintenance and tuning.

• Use PHP in groupware, document management, issue tracking, bug tracking, and business applications

• Mature as a PHP developer by using software practices as part of your design, development, and software life cycle decisions

• Improve the performance of PHP application

Contents:

Part I Designing PHP Applications

Chapter 1 Features of Practical PHP Applications

Chapter 2 Understanding and Avoiding Security Risks

Chapter 3 PHP Best Practices

Part II Developing Intranet Solutions

Chapter 4 Architecture of an Intranet Application

Chapter 5 Central Authentication System

Chapter 6 Central User Management System

Chapter 7 Intranet System

Chapter 8 Intranet Simple Document Publisher

Chapter 9 Intranet Contact Manager

Chapter 10 Intranet Calendar Manager

Chapter 11 Internet Resource Manager

Chapter 12 Online Help System

Part III Developing E-mail Solutions

Chapter 13 Tell-a-Friend System

Chapter 14 E-mail Survey System

Chapter 15 E-campaign System

Part IV Using PHP for Sysadmin Tasks

Chapter 16 Command-Line PHP Utilities

Chapter 17 Apache Virtual Host Maker

Chapter 18 BIND Domain Manager

Part V Internet Applications

Chapter 19 Web Forms Manager

Chapter 20 Web Site Tools