While the Symfony Forms Framework makes the majority of tasks easier (and more secure), it seems to choke when used in a few simple ways. Does it have to be this way or can the framework truly be relied on to help developers in all situations?

Available now is a fast regular expression tester using PHP' preg_match

Assuming you need to process a body of HTML content, this article tells you how to manually process code from that content that appears between two tags (e.g. <pre>process me!</pre>).

Hiding your php file extension via mod rewrite and .htaccess in Apache

Using the GD Library for the graphically impaired. In this article, we use the GD library in a very primal way to break a simple CAPTCHA with high prevision.