PHP

Frequent PHP problems and solutions

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I started off with frequent CakePHP problems last month. This month I add some common PHP problems. Strip additional white spaces With UTF8 the "normal" preg_replace doesn’t really work anymore. For some cases we could use the following trick: $str…

Preventing Brute Force on Login

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With default cake login procedures a user could try unlimited passwords to one specific account. That means, if you write a bot that tries every possible combination (thousand times per minute!), this bot could eventually gain access to the account….

Loading Classes on the fly

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With the LazyLoading Model from Lorenzo (there are other sources as well) we already speed up the application by 20-40% (depending on the application size and amount of models). Something i never really liked is that components and helpers can…