PHP support had been a long time coming, since PHP has been a popular programming language for GitHub hosted projects for years, ranking third and fourth in recent years.

In the latest software supply chain attack, the official PHP Git repository was hacked and the code base tampered with. Yesterday, two malicious commits were pushed to the php-src Git repository ...

In this second excerpt from Advanced PHP Programming, George Schlossnagle offers advice on how to defend against both attacks and carelessness.