When you execute a PHP script from another PHP script and pass data using URL parameters, those parameters are visible on the address bar. A user can see and change the parameters. It's possible to ...

PHP web scripts lose performance for a lot of reasons. The bottleneck can be in database queries, web page access or even slow algorithms. When performance drops, the user gets frustrated waiting for ...

I blogged previously on using PHP on the command line, but I did not cover using PHP to access the file system in that post in the interest of blog post size. I use this post to cover some of the ...

A malicious PHP script found on over 5,000 compromised websites has been fingered as the source of a large-scale spam campaign that has been silently redirecting users to web pages hosting diet and ...

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Using a combination of PHP and HTML, developers can create interactive websites in which users enter data. Web forms can include a variety of input elements, including single line text-fields, which ...

Perl is a language often associated with text processing and CGI. PHP is a language often associated with dynamic Web pages. Both are very popular with Web developers. Often, each of these languages ...

The Display.php script uses a separate configuration file containing variable values and several include files that contain the variable portion of the HTML. While this may not seem very dynamic, you ...