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Matt Butcher

Matt Butcher is a Senior Developer in the About.com division of the New York Times Company. He has written six books and numerous articles. Matt is the maintainer of the QueryPath PHP library and active in the Drupal community. Along with blogging for php|architect, he regularly posts his thoughts at TechnoSophos. He lives with his wife and daughters in Chicago.
 

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Never Use $_GET Again

 

by Matt Butcher · July 8, 2010

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How many times have we heard about security issues in PHP applications stemming from unescaped GET and POST parameters? Proper escaping of input is a perennial problem with web development in general, and for whatever reason PHP seems to have had more than its fair share of bad publicity on this front.

 

The 2010 CMS Expo Roundup

 

by Matt Butcher · May 10, 2010

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CMS Expo, held annually, is a conference that brings together representatives from prominent Open Source CMS systems along with domain experts and even some proprietary tool vendors.