PHP5 with FastCGI and suexec in Debian
Wanna speed up those php apps, while reducing your server’s memory footprint, and improve your security model all at once? Of course you do! All you have to do, is ditch the defaults and run PHP5 through fastcgi and suexec on Apache2. This is a fairly straightforward task, but there are several gotchas. This setup [...]
notes on PHP session security
besides the official documentation, some must-read overviews of the issues with PHP’s session support are provided by Harry and segfaultlabs.
the problem with PDO
At long last I’ve decided to use the latest and greatest PDO in a new app, switching from good old PEAR MDB2/DB for all database access. This is supposed to give you added speed, uniformity and a consistent standard to use throughout PHP-land. But the infatuation was short-lived.
