On PHPEasyStep.com, there's a new tutorial talking about adding "send forgotten password" functionality to your member site.

The rest of the tutorial is all code and SQL statements, including the HTML for the form the users fill out. Basically, it just grabs the password value from the database and sends it along in an email.

Of course, the structure is here for the application, but it's not very secure - sending the password in plain-text like that. Personally, I'd have md5 hashed passwords and reset the password to a new one each time the "request my password" was made. Then, they can come in and reset the paasword when they log in.

On Jason Sheet's blog, there's a new post that offers up a brief tutorial on implementing the soundex functionality in PHP.

He jumps right in, mentioning the steps the script will take (seven of them) before getting right to the code. He's written up his own soundex functionality packaged up nicely in a reusable function and has even compared it to the built-in PHP soundex function for accuracy.

In this tutorial from Matthew Leverton, there's information on adding a step several phpBB users could benefit from - putting a CAPTCHA image on the comment form to reduce spam issues.

He walks the reader through each step of the way, giving shell commands and configuration changes where appropriate. The addition makes use of the freecap CAPTCHA script, making it a simple process of including the library in and adding a few lines to the comment form code inside phpBB.

One of the most often used eZ publish functions is “fetch”. There are a lot of examples in the new and old documentation that show how to fetch content in the eZ publish templates, but many users ask how to fetch eZ publish content objects using PHP.

I just finished my online session about our enterprise PHP 5 library eZ components, which was sponsored by dynamic-webpages.de and eZ systems. The talk went really good and more than 20 attendees followed my words around the general design of enterprise eZ components and my source code browsing session through our Gallery example application. I really had the feeling, that everyone was quite impressed and very satisfied with the session, at least I was.

So far Wolfgang and me already had a small chat regarding part 2 of this great event, which will probably deal with more components, especially Mail and Template. If possible, we plan to make it available for free again. So far, thanks to Wolfgang for initiating this all!

Have a nice weekend! :)

The big news this week is the release of the eZ publish 3.9 feature request list. Also, read about eZ publish 4.0 development progress, an interview with eZ crew member Tobias Schlitt and an update on the specification for a new Project section on ez.no. The newsletter also includes an update on the current bug status.