Category Archives: MySQL

What goes around, comes around

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Richard K Miller

I’m not a big believer in karma, but this week I experienced some karma-like effects. Two years ago for work, I developed code to protect wiki websites. Then I published it on my blog. This weekend a software upgrade caused … Continue reading →

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Essential PHP Security

Posted on August 16, 2006 by Richard K Miller

I recently finished reading Essential PHP Security by Chris Shiflett (O’Reilly). It was a good, quick read, and for me it was mostly a review of principles I had previously read on Chris’s blog. The main principles are filter input … Continue reading →

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CSS Best Practices

Posted on August 14, 2006 by Richard K Miller

Last month at the UPHPU meeting, Wade Shearer presented on CSS best practices. He’s one of the few programmers in the group that’s a designer first, and a programmer second, so he has unique insight into web design. Here are … Continue reading →

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Password protecting MediaWiki with mod_auth_mysql

Posted on May 25, 2006 by Richard K Miller

MediaWiki is the powerful software on which Wikipedia and many other sites are built. It does not, however, come with the option to password protect pages from being viewed. (It can password protect pages from being edited.) If you need … Continue reading →

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