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If you handle the security for a PHP-based website, pay very close attention to the security, and make sure you're using up-to-date versions of plug-ins. That's the message from Arbor Network, who reported that hackers were using PHP-based websites to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks against banks.

Linux-using PHP programmers will want to pay attention to the latest news item from Red Hat and Zend. The two companies – the Linux provider and the maker of the popular PHP development and runtime environment – are partnering to expand Red Hat's OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service offering to PHP.

This month saw major releases of two integrated development platforms for PHP. JetBrains unveiled PhpStorm 5.0, while Symfony released both Symfony 2.1.0 RC and Symfony 2.0.17.

Business Computer Design International (BCD) and Zend Technologies partnered to improve the usability of their PHP solutions for businesses using the IBM i operating system.

Looking for quality answers to some frequently asked PHP questions? Want to know what security precautions you should take or how best to program a secure login system? Look no further.

If you've ever been frustrated by PHP, even as you use it every day to create web applications, consider this: the language's creator himself admits that he didn't really set out to create a language. He had much more modest goals in mind.

PHP is becoming the language of the Cloud. That should surprise no one who's been paying attention, of course, but Zend actually has proof. Its Zend Developer Pulse study polled more than 3,000 PHP developers on their use of emerging technologies and trends in PHP development practices. The growth of PHP for applications hosted in the Cloud was just one of many interesting findings.

One of the users at the Dev Shed forums is searching for the best method to run scheduled jobs in PHP. A few people have chimed in, but we would like to hear your opinion.

In this programming tutorial you will learn how to use the PHP array function array_change_key_case to manipulate data stored in your arrays.

In this programming tutorial you will learn how to work with the PHP array_combine function, which allows you to combine arrays into a single array.

In this programming tutorial, you will learn how to work with the PHP array_chunk function.

In this second part of a two-part tutorial, you'll learn how to use closures in the development of an extendable template system. This system can be customized at will without struggling too much, thanks to the number of interfaces that it implements.

In this first part of a two-part tutorial, I develop a basic template system that can parse any type of closure assigned as a property of its view object(s).

In this conclusion to an eight-part article series on working with a computer's file and operating system with PHP, you'll learn about the functions used in combination with a PHP script to execute system-level programs. This article is excerpted from chapter 10 of the book Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Robert H. Treat (Apress; ISBN: 1590595475).

In this first part of a two-part tutorial, I use a somewhat contrived example to show why you should avoid coding static helper classes in PHP.