February 2006
February’s Random Thoughts
February 27, 2006, 10:05 PM | 0 Comments
February turned out to be a much busier month than I was anticipating. Despite being extremely busy though, I did manage to find time to work on the site. For those of you who subscribe to the RSS feed - you’ll notice that I’ve added the Recent Links section of the site to the feed. A lot of the other things that I’ve been working on will be launched soon.
Getting back to February, there were a lot of ideas I had to post about, but never got a chance to actually write them. Plenty of ideas, but not enough time right now. So here’s a few of the things I’ve had on my mind over the past 27 days.
Securing PHP Mail Forms
February 25, 2006, 12:40 PM | 0 Comments
Over the past several days, I’ve been doing a fair amount of research on PHP’s Mail function and the specific vulnerabilities that it suffers from. Because of the way the Mail function works, there are specific ways that hackers or spam-bots can utilize seemingly innocent forms to spread their spam.
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not criticizing PHP’s Mail function or it’s developers in any way. On the contrary, I find that PHP’s Mail function is well thought out and very powerful. However, to quote a line from the movie ‘Spider-Man:’
“With great power comes great responsibility.”
TinyMCE 2.0
February 7, 2006, 10:30 PM | 2 Comments
If you’ve ever gone on a hunt for a good ‘What You See Is What You Get’ (WYSIWYG) text editor to use for your web applications, you’ll probably know that there are many options out there. I’ve used several different editors, all with their own pros and cons. htmlArea, Xinha, and FCKEditor are all fairly common free or mostly free WYSIWYG editors that will get the job done without too much hassle.