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Securing PHP Web Applications
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Securing PHP Web Applications

by Tricia Ballad, William Ballad
December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
6h 58m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Glossary

API (Application Programming Interface)

An API is a set of encapsulated functions and data that are made available to an application. Sometimes called a code library.

Basic Multilingual Plane

The first of 17 logical groupings, or planes, of characters in Unicode. The Basic Multilingual Plane contains most of the characters commonly used today.

black-box testing

A testing method that tests the functionality of a program without reference to the internal workings of the system.

buffer

A block of memory that temporarily holds data, such as application variables.

CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart)

A challenge-response test designed to filter out automated Web site requests. ...

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