Misc

Question 1

For the Mail functions to be available, PHP must have…

Answer 1

…access to the sendmail binary on your system during compile time.

Question 2

What’s a good rule of thumb for remembering the parameter order of PHP functions?

Answer 2

Array function parameters are ordered as “needle, haystack” whereas String functions are the opposite, so “haystack, needle”.

Question 3

How can you access all of the request headers directly?

Answer 3

getallheaders()

Question 4

How can you mix XML and PHP?

Answer 4

In order to embed

Question 5

What should you use to hash password?

Answer 5

PHP’s native password hashing API, or the crypt() function.

Question 6

What is the suggested algorithm to use when hashing passwords?

Answer 6

Blowfish.

Question 7

How should you create salts?

Answer 7

password_hash() will create a random salt if one isn’t provided, and this is generally the easiest and most secure approach.