If you have a web application, there are basic security best practices that should have been implemented when it was built.
In this post, I'll discuss two of the most important - filtering input and escaping output. It's so easy to do, yet so many web developers don't do it.
PHP is installed on more than 20m websites, including some of the most popular websites in the world.
It's easy to install, easy to work with and when put in the hands of a competent developer can achieve the performance and scalability that highly-popular websites and demanding web applications require.
At a time when social networks are so popular, it's easy to forget that the threaded message board was for many years the "community" of choice for many online.
For businesses and website owners that don't need all the bells and whistles of a full social network, a message board may be the perfect solution for visitors and customers who would benefit from a place to interact online.