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Similarities in PHP and ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’
Yes that is right ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ is intentionally included in the title. I am going to make a short comparison between PHP and ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’, believe it or not here it comes!
First of all what is PHP?
PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML.
Source: http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php
Afterwards what is ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ about?
When college senior Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) for their campus paper, little does she realize the path her life will take. Christian, as enigmatic as he is rich and powerful, finds himself strangely drawn to Ana, and she to him. Though sexually inexperienced, Ana plunges headlong into an affair — and learns that Christian’s true sexual proclivities push the boundaries of pain and pleasure.
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2322441/
Now how on the world can these two compare?
Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
What is an XSS attack?
Cross-site Scripting (XSS) flaws occur whenever an application takes untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or escaping. XSS allows attackers to execute scripts in the victim’s browser which can hijack user sessions, deface web sites, or redirect the user to malicious sites. Continue Reading →
Which Social Network you Should be Focusing on!
Social networks have become a part of our everyday life, nowadays there no companies without a social network profile.
Everyone (even babies most of the times) have a social profile in one or more networks, so in short the importance of social networks is known to everyone.
There are many new and old social networks with many features. Although a shift is seen in social networks focused on images and image sharing there is no decline in the giants like Facebook.
So what should a new company ( or startup ) be doing?
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Opencart Optimization Guide
This will be a step by step guide that will optimize any Opencart website. Opencart being a opensource PHP shopping cart is great but has many flows and those flows render it not appropriate for big businesses. But what if you fix these flaws or get a way around them?
The main and most important problem of Opencart is that the default version is not ready for escalation, what i want to say is that after some time and after including many products + categories your website’s speed will degrade exponentially, well this sounds horrible and it is. I have personally experienced in my website a waiting time ranging from 2 to 24 seconds and this is for TTFB only. Continue Reading →
OpenSSL Hearbeat Vulnerability why should we care?
Lately everyone in the last weeks have heard of OpenSSL and its vulnerability called Heartbeat. The video below describes clearly the actual vulnerability but not the reason we should care, so here are some questions i had and the answers i found. Continue Reading →