Category Archives: Programming
Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated
I recently upgraded to PHP 5.3.0 after having some issues with FASTCGI and 5.2.x on Windows but the moment I did this I started getting numerous warnings. The one that appeared the most was:
Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated
Apparently in PHP5 all objects are passed as reference and 5.3.0 formally deprecated [...]
CFPOP and SSL
One of the reasons I love Adobe’s ColdFusion so much is the fact that it is built on a Java engine and you are able to use a lot of the powerful features of Java from CF. I however don’t get to use this feature often enough, mainly because most of the things I work [...]
PayPal Annoyances
This is a trivial post but Paypal integration has been a headache over the past few years which the manuals having incorrect information, differences between the UK and US apis and hugely unhelpful error codes. Things have gotten a bit better in recent times but still not as good as it should be given the [...]
Setting secure attribute of JSESSIONID cookie in ColdFusion 8
As part of PCI compliance our servers were run through third party security auditing and one warning we received was “Missing Secure Attribute in an Encrypted Session (SSL) Cookie”. This warning referred to the JSESSIONID cookie being set in our SSL enabled pages not having the SECURE attribute set. In ColdFusion there is no way [...]
Fix/Int (Floor) function oddity in ColdFusion 8