Working on a project today I had a few tasks to accomplish in PHP, specifically WordPress which I love to use for side-project sites due to its flexibility.

Most programmers are familiar with the ternary operators, and while most languages have their own way of performing shorthand conditional ternaries, however since PHP 5.3 supported was added to do this by leaving out the middle part of the condition.

Password hashing algorithms can make or break a database leak.  While every endeavour should be made to protect a site database, unfortunately sometimes this has proven unsuccessful for even the largest of sites.