Queue

In our organization we frequently need to execute some scripts that are either time consuming, or very heavy on the server. Most of the times these scripts needn’t necessarily be executed synchronously. Therefore we use a queuing system to execute those scripts when the time is better. For a long time we used an old open source PHP queuing system, named fuel-queue. This was good for the basic stuff we did with it, however this system had some major drawbacks.

What your framework never told you about SQL injection protections

We’ve discovered that SQL injection is to this day not a fully solved problem, even in most popular frameworks. In this post, we’ll explain how these frameworks fail at escaping parts of a query, culminating in the discovery of a critical vulnerability in the popular Laravel framework which affects a large percentage of applications. Let’s start with an innocent example, which provides the starting point of our journey. This is a typical simple use case: a filterable, sortable list.

FuelPHP released version 1.7

FuelPHP 1.7 has been released. A pretty late post, but it’s been crazy busy the past few weeks. One important feature used immediately: PATCH request are now supported.

FuelPHP released version 1.6.1

Joy to the world! FuelPHP 1.6.1 has been released FuelPHP released a new version.

Mostly minor improvements from the 1.6 with some backported functionallity from the 1.7 branch.

FuelPHP released version 1.6

Today the kind people at FuelPHP released a new version of their framework, promising some big changes and improvements. The official introduction of Composer is perhaps the most noteworthy of the changes. Composer has been the main reason to choose for FuelPHP as the core framework of our web applications, since it gives us the ease of combining our own packages into the stable FuelPHP framework. Keep an eye on our blog for a more detailed overview of the amazing features of composer.