In our previous article, we discussed how we should hash and salt our user’s passwords to make them harder to crack if our database becomes compromised. In this article, we’re going to discuss how to use PHP’s built-in functions to do this.
As someone who has maintained this kind of logic in other systems, I’m so glad it was added to the core.
Read MoreUntil we can get all of our users using a better solution like OAuth or SQRL storing our user’s passwords is going to be a common point of pain for us as developers. In this article, we’re going to discuss how to help our users have good password hygiene and what we should be doing to protect their passwords.
Read MoreAs developers, there are going to be times when we need to be able to keep digital information secret from individuals who we don’t trust. Encryption gives us the ability to keep our secret information secret and allows us to keep our jobs if we work with sensitive information.
In this article, we’re going to discuss the two types of encryption and go over the pros and cons of each.
Read MoreAs developers, there are going to be times when we need to be able to keep digital information secret from individuals who we don’t trust. Encryption gives us the ability to keep our secret information secret and allows us to keep our jobs if we work with sensitive information.
In this article, we’re going to go over what encryption is, why we need it, and discuss the major types.
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Read MoreIn our previous 2 articles (“What is Test Driven Development?” and “Introduction to PHPUnit”), we discussed what Test-Driven Development is and why you should use it and we gave a very basic intro to PHPUnit. In this article, we’ll work through how to use PHPUnit to develop some new features using TDD.
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