One of the very important considerations for customer-facing apps is the cleaning up of user input, before it goes into a database or interacts with other code within the network. This diminishes the options a malicious user has  for entering destructive code.
The current platform which I am designing really needs a robust front-end “sanitizing” process [...]

For Immediate Release
San Francisco, California – February 19, 2009
Heaven Interactive is pleased to announce that it is now offering custom WordPress installations for publishers, marketers, and on-line retailers.  These packages will allow clients to have custom-designed, fully-editable websites containing both static and dynamic web pages, such as blog and news content.
By utilizing the power of [...]

My SQL knowledge is fairly basic.  I am an interactive designer, not a strict low-level coder, so I am looking for solutions that do not require cryptic or highly detailed SQL, when I want to access a DB system.
If you want to access the WP MySQL database tables, you can of course include the ‘wp-db.php’ [...]

I searched the web for around 30 minutes looking for a script that allowed me to use MCrypt with PHP and actually see the decoded string.
Check out this very thorough (well-written and commented) script. Works like a charm.