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The news on the front page of php.net has changed, the conference announcements are now located on their own page. The idea is to keep php.net specific news clear and also opens the door for additional news entries, like for RC releases. More changes are on the way so keep an eye out.

“A review of the SitePoint book “Build your own website the right way using HTML & CSS” “

Elizabeth Naramore writes: After eighteen months and four public drafts, the long-awaited version 3 of the GNU/GPL License is finally here. According to the press release on the Free Software Foundation site, collaboration was a key ingredient to making the license as practical and useable as possible.

“By hearing from so many different groups in a public drafting process, we have been able to write a license that successfully addresses a broad spectrum of concerns. But even more importantly, these different groups have had an opportunity to find common ground on important issues facing the free software community today, such as patents, tivoization, and Treacherous Computing,” said the Foundation's executive director, Peter Brown.To see the GPLv3 in all its glory, you can view the full document, and to show your support and usage of the new license, be sure to grab an icon from the FSF's blog post announcing the release.

“A review of the SitePoint book “Build your own website the right way using HTML & CSS” “

On the PHP Security Blog today, Stefan Esser points out an interview he did with BlogSecurity concerning the current state of security on the WordPress software.

In the Interview they talk about several different aspects and securityrelated concerns including:

a previous critical SQL injection vulnerability in WordPress
Esser’s general thoughts on the software
his recommendations for the WordPress team
improvements and suggestions for other blogging software he has

Check out this post on the BlogSecurity site for the complete interview.

PHPBuilder.com has posted part two of their look at combining Ajax and PHP. They take things a step further than last time and look at the actual communication between the script and the server.

AJAX and PHP 5 both have powerful features for processing and using an XML document. XML is a method of formatting data often for communication purposes between different computer systems. In this article, we will show you how to access an XML document with AJAX!

They create a script that can load the XML information from a file and echo it back out to the waiting client script. They also include the other half the clientside javascript that grabs the XML information, parses it, and pushed it into a javascript object for easy access.