Hi there and welcome to our first PHPWeekly newsletter that is going out to a wider audience. As some of you know we have been running a curated list of interesting links that we send out each week. We’ve made some significant changes and created a site - www.phpweekly.com - in order to share this with more people.  If you know someone who would benefit, please let them know about us and point them to the site. If you have any sources of great PHP news, or would like to share information with us, then please email me at [email protected]
 

Have a great weekend,

Katie

 

20 Point List For Preventing Cross-Site Scripting In PHP
A great list of 20 brief points you should bear in mind when battling Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in PHP

About Symfony: Stability over Features
Should the Symfony core contributors focus their efforts toward stabilising the existing features instead of working on new ones?

Best Practices in Composer when Developing an App and a Frame
Read how a team of developers are undertaking various projects using a new PHP framework, and what led them to choosing Composer

UTF8 double encoding issues in web apps and MySQL
UTF8 is a way to encode unicode characters into strings of bytes. Learn this in-depth analysis of what can, and will, go wrong, and a walk through of possible solutions.

Listing Packages on Packagist for Composer
You’ve created an awesome library, and now you’re ready to open source it and share it with the world. Take it to the next level
 
Why Testing Makes a Project Successful and You Can’t Afford to Deny It
Should testing not only be a serious going concern, but an integral part of the development mindset. Do you consider testing a second thought?
 
Cool New Stuff in PHP 5.4
Re-familiarise yourself with the benefits of PHP 5.4

PHP 5.5 beta 4 is now available
 

PHP 5.4.14 and PHP 5.3.24 Released

 

Drupal 7.22 Released

 

Webinar: Behavior Driven Development with Behat
 

PHP South Africa 2013

 

PHP(TEK) 2013 

 

A Better PHP Feature Voting Process Podcast

The current PHP feature voting process causes problems to those that do not know why features are approved or rejected by each voter. A better solution was proposed to require justification for each feature vote.
 

PHP & MySQL Novice to Ninja - 5th Edition

A hands-on guide that will help you build your first database driven website.

 

PHP Master - Write Cutting Edge Code

Tailor-made for PHP developers who are serious about refining their server-side applications.

 

Write Better Object Oriented PHP Today

Object oriented programming always leaves you with a headache. What if you could master it instead?

 

 

Consuming Feeds with SimplePie

The PHP library SimplePie allows for quick and easy feed consumption and display. Here’s how you can get started on your own feed reader.

 

Setting Up PayPal IPN in PHP

PayPal IPN (Instant Payment Notification) is a service provided by PayPal that allows you to accept payments on your e-commerce website.

 

SourceGuardian PHP Encoder

Visit our sponsor, SourceGuardian, who provide a PHP encoder to protect your code