Tuesday, 8 May 2007
Is PHP Insecure? |
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PHP has always attracted flak for its security issues. Alistair Woolridge tries to convince you how PHP is secure and gives you the reasons as to why it is considered insecure. He thinks the users create this bad light about PHP.
He explains it under the following:
PHP in the Name
Alistair says, there is a obsession with this language to place its name inside software titles like phpNuke, phpBB, phpMyAdmin and the like. He explains this is a problem as whenever there is a bug within one of these pieces of software, it is automatically associated with PHP. With phpNuke in the equation, there are regularly bugs in this software, and generally this rubs off onto the PHP project. He however adds that the bugs in phpNuke have nothing to do with the PHP interpreter, it is purely bad code created by the developers.
Too Easy to Learn
PHP has opened the doors to many more developers, and have made it relatively easy for people to get started with web programming. Because of the little amount of knowledge needed to get a quick site up using PHP, this has caused learning developers to release insecure code.
Further Security
He says, there is room for further improvement when the security question comes in. He lists the following to help you secure your code and Linux Apache, MySQL Apache (LAMP) setup:
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