Precautions Before Deploying PHP Application In PHP Development part 1

PHP is not new web development language so it is insane to say that its security measures are not adequate. Though it is highly flexible language its back-to-back versions have gotten lots of improvements in sense of security measures. Since PHP development has yielded myriads of websites for the web it is likely that the PHP developers who are working on PHP web development might have not enough knowledge of have good coding practices that ensure the enough coding steps to beat the malicious attackers. Therefore, today we will explore the precautions before deploying PHP application at a glance.

In many cases PHP programmers have to installed some sorts of PHP scripts from the 3^rd party applications since PHP is flexible enough to allow all sorts of integrations. In due course, PHP developers save setup scripts on the working directories and this script allows working components installation also allows the access for the malicious users. Perhaps due to this reason all third party packages providers give instructions to remove the setup scripts immediately accomplishment of installation process. This is good way to save our PHP application from the unscrupulous users.

If any PHP web programmer wishes to keep that script she used to create an .htaccess file to control the administration directories. This way if any unauthorized user attempts to access the protected directories has to pass through the validation process giving username and passward that stored in the password file. Something similar may happens in case of ‘include’ file which we   use in many parts of the PHP application. This is called include file because it has directives that assimilate the code of individual file into that of originating page. If your include file is simple than no problem but if consists of some sensitive data like usernames and passwords or some database access keys we have take enough care to prevent that and there is only secure way that you should remove the .inc extension and convert it into .php extension so PHP engines will process the file and prevent unauthorized access.

Conclusion :-

PHP is highly flexible web development language and this flexibility causes many problems as far as security is concern. In due course if we take some precautions before deploying PHP application we can save future damages with least efforts.