Spurred on by Jason's plan, I thought that I would do something similar. I thought it would might be useful if I wrote a small series based upon a set plan. Maybe write up 5-10 (or more?) articles, say one a week, and hopefully get some people thinking about how they should be coding up their scripts, in terms of security, database structure and so on.
A few topics I've thought of:
- A basic user administration program with multiple levels of access
- A guestbook
- Regular Expressions
- Classes 101
- New features in PHP 5
- Database Structuring
- …
April 28th, 2006
Ilia has posted up a PDF copy of his slides used in the recent PHP|Tek conference. Its well worth a quick read over. On another note, Ilia's book on PHP security is a must have for any serious coder. It is full of useful information and my well thumbed copy has been a life saver and taught me a few things I hadn't really considered. Nice one Ilia!
April 28th, 2006
Quite a few of the people that read this blog are coders who work either part time, or full time, mostly from home but some in an office. However, most if not all have coded an ecommerce site, but maybe not looked at all the angles. Jason Chance is going to be looking at these concepts based upon his own experience:
I don’t want these articles to focus on what so-called “experts” say are the best practices, or what you can read in some business book you pick up at the bookstore. These articles instead will focus on my personal experience as I have worked with various companies setting up their online operations.
April 28th, 2006