Most people are familiar with common vulnerabilities in PHP code, such as SQL Injections and XSS. SQL Injections can be prevented by using a good data base abstraction layer, but there may be old code which depends on developers manually sanitizing input. XSS vulnerabilities may not be dealt with properly, nor may command execution vulnerabilities using functions such as system().

This short video show you how to deploy a PHP application to Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure.

PHP 5.4 is about to bring some of the most exciting changes to the PHP language to date. Learn about traits, array dereferencing, indirect method calls using array callback syntax and improvements to closures and streams. Additionally, the talk reminds the new bits in PHP 5.3, in case you missed them: Namespaces, closures and PHAR.

Couchbase Server is a fully memcached API compatible database that solves performance, scaling and querying needs. It relies on proven technologies like memcached and Apache CouchDB along with a chunk of open source components that make the whole thing work. Couchbase developed a PHP extension to work with Couchbase Server.

This short tutorial explains the if/elseif/else instructions for PHP.

Video producer: TheNewBoston.com

Rasmus Lerdorf, the inventory of PHP, discusses PHP performance.

Ryan Lane, Operations Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation, gives a detailed presentation of the infrastructure of one of the top web presences.

Video Producer: http://marakana.com/

This video covers the basics of the CouchDB HTTP API and how to use it from PHP. Some architecture approaches are discussed and it briefly looks at things to avoid when moving from an RDBMS to a Document Database such as CouchDB.

This tutorial shows how to write “if else” statements in PHP.

Video Producer: The New Boston

This video demonstrates how to quickly get up and running with PHP 5.3.1 and MongoDB on Windows 7 and IIS 7 and getting started with Lithium, the most RAD framework for PHP 5.3+.

Video Producer: spacialeffect.com