A couple weeks ago, I posted a link to the Nettuts+ article “HTTP: The Protocol Every Web Developer Must Know – Part 1” by Pavan Podila. That was the first part of a two-part article, covering what every Web developer ought to know about the Hypertext Transfer Protocol. That article explained the fundamentals of HTTP, and is something that that truly every Web developer should read. Nettuts+ just posted Part 2. In this article, Podila goes into…
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I’m working on Part 3 of “The Yii Book”, and have made reference to the fact that I’ve been working on Chapter 15, “Internationalization,” and Chapter 16, “Leaving the Browser.” These are not the original chapters, per the first table of contents. Here, then, is an updated table of contents. These are still subject to change, but considering there’s not that much of the book left, there probably won’t be any dramatic changes.
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Pádraic Brady just posted “20 Point List For Preventing Cross-Site Scripting In PHP”, a thorough list of steps you should take when developing a Web site to prevent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. Arguably, it would have been useful to include the explanations for some of these, but then the post could have been too long. In any case, it’s worth a quick read. I particularly like the following:
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For several months now, I’ve been doing some pro-bono (i.e., free) work for a local non-profit, the Centre County Down Syndrome Society. I’m helping them bring their Web site into the modern age. (If you look, you’ll see that the site is currently terrible. Terrible!) That process is moving right along, but they have a need I cannot address, and I’m hoping that some friendly graphic designer out there can help them (and me) out.
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Let’s look at a different way of rendering view files: using static pages. The difference between a static page and a standard page in the site is that the static page does not change based upon any input. In other words, a dynamic page might display information based upon a provided model instance, but a static page just displays some hard-coded HTML (in theory).
This is an excerpt from Chapter 7, “Working with Controllers,” of “The Yii Book”.
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