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A few days ago, Facebook released XHP, a PHP extension, which allows defining XML directly in PHP blocks, allowing you to “use PHP as a stricter templating engine”.
It seems a bit strange to be coding XML tags directly in PHP blocks, but it adds features such as automatic escaping, and the ability to manipuate the [...]

My previous articles on installing PHP on CentOS dealt with installing PHP 5.2.6. I have found this to have some bugs that kill the process without error information. One bug I found, which was on an x86_64 server, was that converting an object to a string did this.
So, I have compiled the latest PHP version, [...]

Recently, I wrote a mod_perl module for using a database backend for basic and digest authentication in Apache, however I found it to be much slower than mod_auth_mysql. This would be due to using mod_perl and DBI. So I have written a patch for mod_auth_mysql which performs the same, which means its as fast.
The main [...]

The HTTP protocol gives a standardised way to provide authentication. This is supported via two modes:
Basic – transmit the username and password in a reversable base-64 encode
Digest – transmits complex MD5 hash of the username, realm, password, a server generated nonce, request method and request uri
Basic HTTP authentication suffers from a very easy man-in-the-middle attack, [...]

Update 20th June 2009 – I found a bug in PHP 5.2.9, so I have compiled 5.2.9 rpms, including the ones that this article talks about, check out the article here.
Update 23rd May 2009 – It appears dbase, readline, json and filter were included either compiled into php or as a shared module in php-common, [...]

Update 20th June 2009 – I found a bug in PHP 5.2.6, so I have compiled 5.2.10 rpms and provided a repository from which to install them, check out the article here.
Update 19th May 2009 – I have written an article here detailing how to build RPMs and install some additional php extensions, which although [...]