OWASP PHP Project Archive (03.2015)

About
The OWASP PHP Project's goal (OWASP PHP Project Roadmap) is to enable developers, systems administrators and application architects to build and deploy secure applications built using the PHP programming language.

Joining the Project
[mailto:serg@owasp.org Serg Belokamen] is currently steering the project.

Please submit your ideas for individual articles to the OWASP PHP Project Proposals.

If you would like to contribute to the OWASP PHP Project please:


 * 1) Visit the Tutorial;
 * 2) Join the mailing list;
 * 3) Read the OWASP PHP Project Roadmap; and
 * 4) Pick a topic from the OWASP PHP Project Proposals, OWASP PHP Project Roadmap or suggest a new topic.

Remember to add the tag: to the end of new articles so that they're properly categorised.

PHP Security Overview
It is not easy to produce a PHP application without security vulnerabilities. Most application security vulnerabilities apply to PHP applications just like other environments.

The goals of this project are to provide information about building, configuring, deploying, operating, and maintaining secure PHP applications. We cover the following topics or pick a topic from the OWASP PHP Table of Contents


 * PHP Security for Architects
 * Provides information about the design and architectural considerations for a PHP web application. Common architectures such as MVC, Ajax, Web Services and PEAR / Zend Frameworks are discussed.


 * PHP Security for Developers
 * This section covers dangerous calls and common vulnerabilities associated with them, such as system exec, eval and so on. This section will also cover standard security mechanisms available in the standard language, such as cryptography, logging, encryption, and error handling. Securing elements of an application, such as controllers, business logic, and persistence layers will be covered. We'll discuss handling request parameters, encoding, injection, and more.


 * PHP Security for Deployers
 * These articles cover topics specifically related to the PHP hosting environment. We discuss minimizing the attack surface, configuring error handlers, and performing hardening of PHP.

PHP Articles

 * PHP Top 5 - OWASP PHP Top 5