Developer Corner

2010-09-07

Developer Corner

Suhosin

How Suhosin, the PHP hardening module used by many shared hosts, broke Blesta's database session revival by encrypting session data, and the rename fix.

Cody1 min read

2009-08-21

Developer Corner

PHP & C

PHP and C compared: shared stdio functions and static variables, PHP's global keyword versus C's extern, and references versus pointers.

Cody3 min read

2009-07-27

Developer Corner

Encoding vs. Encryption

Encoding versus encryption: why base64 is not security, how AES ciphers and high entropy protect sensitive data, and where developers go wrong.

Cody3 min read

2009-05-14

Developer Corner

Gateway changes in 2.2

Blesta 2.2 adds multi-currency support, changing how gateways are written: all must now extend the Gateway class and define the getCurrencies() method.

Cody2 min read

2009-02-06

Developer Corner

Blesta for Windows

Blesta 2.1 is in development and adds Windows support, bringing the billing software's simplicity, productivity, and power to Windows machines for the first time.

Cody1 min read

2008-11-04

Developer Corner

New Standards for Developers

Blesta 2.0 introduces two developer standards: no PHP short tags and XHTML Strict templates, plus template versioning that flags incompatible templates in the admin area.

Cody1 min read

2008-09-12

Developer Corner

GoDaddy.com and .mobi domains

A tongue-in-cheek take on GoDaddy's .mobi domain marketing, which claims mobile devices need .mobi to browse when phones have reached .com sites for years.

Cody1 min read

2008-06-04

Developer Corner

Upcoming version 1.4

Blesta 1.4 preview: a dynamic integrated order system with clickable order forms, drop-in form templates, and per-user language selection for the interface and emails.

Cody2 min read