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WordPress 2.8.4: Security Release

Penton — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:20:50 +0000

Yesterday a vulnerability was discovered: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset. As a result, the first account without a key in the database (usually the admin account) would have its password reset and a new password would be emailed to the account owner. This doesn’t allow remote access, but it is very annoying.

Wordpress had fixed this problem last night and have been testing the fixes and looking for other problems since then. Version 2.8.4 which fixes all known problems is now available for download and is highly recommended for all users of WordPress.

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Zend_Paginator with Search Parameters

Penton — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:53:36 +0000

While working on Zend Framework, I had found 2 good blog posts regarding how to use Zend_Paginator with search parameters. The steps are:

1. Set up the action to capture the parameters

2. Set up our router to accept the params

3. Modify the example paginator view partial

4. Pass the search params to the paginatorControl view helper

Please click here and here for the complete post.

Generate Formatted Excel Files with PHP

Penton — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:18:11 +0000

There’re many reasons why we would want to generate our report in excel formats. One of them is because a huge number of business personnels are relying on it heavily in their daily operations.

There’re 2 very good methods to generate formatted excel reports. They let you generate excel report with ease able to customize the formatting of the reports like setting cell’s background colors, merging cells, insert formula, insert image, & etc.

The first one is PHPExcel. It let developer to generate Excel 2007 with PHP 5.2 and above. Its a well written library but the fact that it required PHP 5, sites that are still using PHP 4 won’t be very happy about it.

For developers who are still using PHP 4, Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer Pear package will come in handy to you guys.

Hopefully, this blog post will be useful for those who need to generate formatted excel reports with PHP. Enjoy!