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Michael Kimsal has a new post today looking at using Doctrine models in a Zend Framework application and how to get them to autoload when you need them with the help of Zend's Zend_Loader_Autoloader.

If you've been using the Zend Framework on a Windows platform (running IIS as the web server) and have been getting some 500 errors and have been left lacking the detail you need on the problem, you should read this new post from Rob Allen about an IIS setting that can help you out.

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While there are many major security issues possible in a web application, there is a particular one that bugged me for some time. The Identity theft - Broken account and session management issue.Why can one so easily still my session id cookie and suddenly gain access to my account in one particular web application?

The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.2. This is a maintenance release in the 5.3 series, which includes a large number of bug fixes. Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.2:Improved LCG entropy. (Rasmus, Samy Kamkar)Fixed safe_mode validation inside tempnam() when the directory path does not end with a /). (Martin Jansen)Fixed a possible open_basedir/safe_mode bypass in the session extension identified by Grzegorz Stachowiak.

Juozas Kaziukenas has a suggestion for all of those developers (and web applications) out there that are still resting back on their comfort zone of PHP 5.2 - don't be afraid of PHP 5.3 , the earlier the adoption the better!

On ZendCasts.com today there's a new screencast aimed at showing off custom Zend_Form decorators for your Zend Framework application.

With Adobe’s latest incarnation of the Flex Framework and the Flash Builder integrated development environment ( IDE ), creating truly engaging front-end clients is now more streamlined. Some of the useful tools and features covered in this article are the Data/Services, Test Operation, and Network Monitor additions to Flash Builder.

API for managing nested sets of data stored in a database.

As mentioned on the main PHP site today, the latest version in the PHP 5.2 series has been released - PHP 5.2.13 .