Many developers rely on strip_tags to validate user input, and, although the function does a good job when removing all the html tags, there are some security issues when you want to leave some of them (like <a> or <img>).
That is because, although you removed all the <script> tags from the input, that doesn’t mean [...]
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How safe strip_tags is?
June 2nd, 2010
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OEmbed – transforming video links to embeds
May 31st, 2010
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Since the video sharing phenomenon began, many web developers struggle with the problem of embeding the videos without knowing anything but the url where the video page is. Many users didn’t know anything about embed code, how to put videos on their blog or other tehnical stuff like that, so developers tried to find ways [...]
Running multiple processes in PHP
May 25th, 2010
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Sometimes you need multiple commands to run in parallel to save up script processing time for repetitive tasks.
In the “Building a Video sharing site” project that i will present here soon, I needed a script to run multiple video processing jobs. PHP wasn’t meant to support multitasking, but with a few tricks we can emulate [...]
