Chris Shiflett

http://twitter.com/shiflett

Brooklyn, New York

A creative web developer from Brooklyn.

Areas of Expertise:

  • Web 2.0
  • social web apps
  • PHP
  • web app security
  • design
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • programming
  • writing

Chris Shiflett is a creative web developer who loves making web sites. He is a thought leader in the PHP and web application security communities — a widely-read blogger at shiflett.org, a popular speaker at industry conferences worldwide, and the founder of the PHP Security Consortium.

His books include the critically-acclaimed Essential PHP Security (O’Reilly) and HTTP Developer's Handbook (Sams). His writing has also appeared in a number of other popular books including Programming PHP (O’Reilly), PHP Cookbook (O’Reilly), and PHP in Action (Manning).

Essential PHP Security Essential PHP Security
by Chris Shiflett
October 2005
Print: $29.95
Ebook: $23.99

Chris blogs at:

Dark Patterns

April 30 2013

Dark patterns have been around for a couple of years, but it seems like the concept is gaining steam lately. It’s normal for design (and copy) to try to modify behavior, but with more and more frequency, I feel like apps are trying to trick me rath… read more

Ideas of March

March 15 2013

I wasn’t going to write about Ideas of March this year. I wasn’t even sure it was an idea worth spreading last year. It’s important to me, but I’m struggling to blog as often as I’d like, so I’m hardly setting a good e… read more

XSS Is Still Tricky

March 08 2013

This works in Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera. <!DOCTYPE html> <head> <title>Oh no!</title> <script type="text/javascript"> var xss = "</script><script>alert('XSS');</script>"; </script&… read more
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