Gavin Sherry - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Gavin Sherry

Article | 5/08/2002 Security of PHP scripts

Security of applications is one of the most important aspects of programming today - and one of the most overlooked and misunderstood. Now we will loo...

Article | 30/07/2002 PostgreSQL address book

We have looked extensively at interacting with the PostgreSQL relational database; now we look at integrating this into our ongoing project - a databa...

Article | 20/05/2002 PHP and PostgreSQL

This column has been looking at ways to simplify the development of a database-driven Web-based address book. Now we look at a complete solution: the ...

Article | 1/05/2002 Search multiple fields with PHP

This column will look at modifying 'Address book in PHP revisited's' AB2 code to allow searching of multiple data fields.

Article | 1/05/2002 Covisint upgrades catalog-management system

This month, we will look at modifying last month's AB2 code to allow searching of multiple data fields.

Article | 15/04/2002 Address book in PHP revisited

In the last column we introduced the use of embedded databases within PHP via the Database Abstract (DBA) Layer. Now, we will re-implement Address Boo...

Article | 11/03/2002 Dealing with databases in PHP

Previously we have looked at building a basic address book database system. Address Book 1 stored its data in a flat file format - that is, plain text...

Article | 2/02/2002 Dealing with databases

We have looked at building a basic address book database system. Address Book 1 stored its data in a flat file format - that is, plain text. The probl...

Article | 1/01/2002 Searching address book data in PHP

We have looked at storing address book entries submitted by users. The other requirement of an address book is to be able to locate an address. Now we...

Article | 11/12/2001 Code deciphering

If you're considering developing programming skills in preparation for a career change, or are just interested in how software - from operating system...

Article | 1/12/2001 Advanced Processing of User Data in PHP

The previous column, 'Collecting user data' looked at how to accept data from basic HTML forms and store then in a structured format in a file. As thi...

Article | 2/11/2001 Collecting user data

There are two stages to receiving data from Web users: the first is to provide an interface to interact with, and the second is to retrieve this infor...

Article | 2/10/2001 Working with structured data

In this column we look at writing data to files in a structured format and how to read it back in that format.

Article | 2/09/2001 Strings and PHP

If you read the 'PHP Hypertext Preprocessor' column, you might have been wondering about some of the peculiarities of string handling with PHP. String...

Article | 6/08/2001 PHP Hypertext Preprocessor

The remarkable volume of information which has moved to the Web over the last few years, and the complexity of delivering it dynamically to Web users,...