Fabien Potencier (of the Symfony framework project) has posted the results of a security audit that was performed on the framework by SektionEins.

The Symfony2 core team takes security issues very seriously; we have a dedicated procedure to report such issues, and the framework itself tries to give the developer all the features needed to secure his code easily. Thanks to our successful community donation drive, SektionEins performed a security audit on the Symfony2 code earlier this year. The audit is now over and the good news is that the Symfony2 code is pretty solid; only minor problems have been found. They have all been addressed now

Their findings included things like the Request component trusting certain headers, bad regex validation on datetimes, password encoding issues, cookie handling and exception handling issues. Links to the fixes for each are included in the post.

DevShed has posted a new tutorial today looking at one of the more useful tools a developer can add into an application - logging.

If there is no logging mechanism, then if there's a goof-up in a production environment, you have absolutely no idea what went wrong. The only thing which a support developer can do in this case is to reproduce the issue at the developer end, which sometimes work and sometimes don't.

The look at the types of logging (trace logs, audit logs and user logging/history) and create a simple class that allows flexibility for file location, priority and timstamping. Their script contains a writelog method that does all the work (including pushing it through the PEAR logging class).

In a continuing effort to share his PHP security knowledge with the community, Chris Shiflett has launched a new means of communication - Brain Bulb Webcasts.

I've been playing around with Snapz Pro lately. I originally intended to use it to help spice up some of my talks by offering prepared demos directly in Keynote, but I have also decided that it would be useful to offer various talks and demos to the PHP community.

The first Brain Bulb Webcast is PHP Security Audit HOWTO, a short video of one of my conference talk.

The webcast plays in QuickTime and lasts about 20 minutes with lots of good tips along the way.

The latest PHPLife from Richard Davey has been posted.

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