phalcon – a high speed php framework

phalcon – a high speed php framework

• https://phalconphp.com/en/

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howto downgrade ed/x/ubuntu 16 php 7.0 to php 5.6

howto downgrade ed/x/ubuntu 16 php 7.0 to php 5.6

install a clean ed/x/ubuntu from ISO but do not add php then

add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
aptitude update
aptitude install php5.6

# verify php
php -v

# verify apache
a2query -m

thanks to

• http://askubuntu.com/questions/761713/how-can-i-downgrade-from-php-7-to-php-5-6-on-ubuntu-16-04
• http://geekdecoder.com/ubuntu-16-04-xenial-downgrade-php-7-php-5-6/
• http://lornajane.net/posts/2016/php-7-0-and-5-6-on-ubuntu

github connected ci, code coverage and code style tools

github connected ci, code coverage and code style tools

• https://travis-ci.org/
• https://coveralls.io/
• https://styleci.io/

ED/X/UBUNTU ondrej PPA PHP 5.6 repo has changed

ED/X/UBUNTU ondrej PPA PHP 5.6 repo has changed

# LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

# aptitude update
# aptitude install php5.6
# aptitude install php-xdebug

php5 sessionclean crontab job

sometimes php5 will create a crontab job that runs php5/sessionclean every 30 mins this can cause php xdebug errors to occur every 30 minutes

PHP Authentication and Encryption the right way

PHP Authentication and Encryption the right way (hint dont use mcrypt)

• https://tonyarcieri.com/all-the-crypto-code-youve-ever-written-is-probably-broken

Paragonie

• https://paragonie.com/blog/2015/05/using-encryption-and-authentication-correctly#
• https://paragonie.com/blog/2015/05/if-you-re-typing-word-mcrypt-into-your-code-you-re-doing-it-wrong
• https://paragonie.com/blog/2015/08/you-wouldnt-base64-a-password-cryptography-decoded
• https://paragonie.com/blog/2015/11/choosing-right-cryptography-library-for-your-php-project-guide
• https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/02/how-safely-store-password-in-2016

PHP libraries

• https://download.libsodium.org/doc/
• https://github.com/paragonie/halite

php use dangers

php use dangers

example from https://github.com/cakephp/chronos

use Cake\Chronos\Date;
$today = new Date();
echo $today;

imagine line 2 was actually line 200 how am i supposed to remember that a Date is no longer a PHP Date