Microsoft has been participating in several initiatives that benefit PHP. This post talks about such initiatives.

It includes an interview with an Microsoft Open Source Labs leader, and a review of a what happened at summit that Microsoft organized in their headquarters in Redmond with several influential PHP community people.

If you need to follow redirects within your php code using Curl and the open_basedir is set you came into some trouble. If you disable this directive all your directories with a 777 permission are not safe (if one or more website on the same server has some security issues). If you don’t have additional protections you should NEVER disable the open_basedir directive (at least if you’re using 3rd party applications).

TinyMCE is a great online WYSIWYG editor which is used for a lot of projects, for example this Wordpress blog application (the content backend). I use TinyMCE for custom projects too. TinyMCE is free, generates good HTML code and the interface is easy to learn even for non-webmaster.

This lightweight Ajax image gallery and slideshow script clocks in under 3kb packed with a number of cool features.