Securing PHP Web Applications

Appendix Additional Resources

No one book can include every piece of information you need, so we’re doing the next best thing—giving you the list of resources we’d take with us if we were stranded on a deserted island (that just happens to have electricity, computers, caffeine—the bare essentials) and had to write a PHP Web application.

PEAR

The PHP Extensions and Application Repository is the equivalent of the Library of Congress for reusable PHP code libraries. We’ve already discussed using off-the-shelf libraries to speed up development and improve security by delegating some of the more complicated code to someone with more specialized knowledge. PEAR is the first place you should look when you need a code ...