Lostintechnology’s Srikanth AD (adsrikanth[at]gmail[dot]com) wrote the interview and I would like to thank him for his time and effort.

To check out the interview see the link below:

Lost in Technology

We are very sorry about this but that’s what happens when thousands of can to PHPanywhere at once. But luckily we are back.

Enjoy as always!

As announced earlier we have released version 2 of PHPAnywhere.net.

This version is a HUGE leap from the old version with a lot of new features:

Find and replace feature
Displays line numbers
Code auto completion
Displays line numbers
Code indention (TAB key)
Additional syntax highlighting
Auto-indentation
Tab states
Alphabetical sorting in server list
New icon set (150 different file types in FTP browser)
14 Themes
10 Code editor schemes
FTP password prompt

This version has been in the works for some time now – as you can see by the list of features!

So please enjoy working anytime, anywhere!

And as always, let us know what you think!!

Kind regards,

The PHPAnywhere Team

Today we added a really cool and needed feature FILE UPLOAD!

Now you can upload files from your computer to the FTP server and edit it!!

Enjoy!

*please note we put a daily 50 mb limit on file uploads, I hope this wont be to much of an inconvinience.

So if you log in to Labs you’ll see that all the icons are redone and look great (at least we think so ).

And besides just editing current icons we went a step further and added 150 icons to our FTP browser…That’s right our FTP browser can now differentiate 150 file types!!!

Here is a short list of files we have added:
-all MS office files
-most common audio types
-most common video types
-most common compressed file types
-all adobe file types
-all web file types even including MS’s asp, aspx…
-and even all the most common file types accourding to fileinfo.com

I hope you like them and find them useful.

It’s not huge news – I know, but it should make a lot of you happy non the less.

Enjoy!

So I would now kindly like to ask you all that use and enjoy our service to help us  Spread the Word

We have added our site to Digg so you’ll find a Digg button below, also on our Homepage we added a Share button like this :

Please feel free to use these tools or Spread the Word in any other way that you feel!

Thank you for you’re help!

PHPAnywhere Team

Just wanted to wish you all the best in the new year!

And we’ll get back to work on PHPanywhere as soon as the hangovers from last night pass.

Cheers!

I have decided post our view of the security of our site and hopefully start a conversation with you – the users, in hopes that we reassure you of our service or maybe add/change something that will make you feel safe to use PHPanywhere.

I would like to start off by saying that all security issues are addressed in the ToS, here’s an explanation of how everything actually works.

-When you create a FTP server all the info is stored in a database, but the password is encrypted so even we the database administrators can’t see your password.
A new “Don’t Remember Password” feature will be added soon so that every time you access your server it will ask for the password – in this case it won’t be stored in our database though.

-When you open an html/php file it is temporarily downloaded to our server and then when you save it, it’s uploaded to your server. But once you close the file it is deleted from our server.

So as you can see we really can’t do anything with your files/servers.

But before I end this post I would just like to show you all one analogy; PHPanywhere is to Zend or Dreamweaver what Gmail or Hotmail are to MS Outlook, and all the same security issues apply to them as they do to PHPanywhere.

Let me explain, let’s say you have a Gmail account, all your emails are constantly stored on Google’s servers which means any Google employee can read your private and business emails, pictures and whatever else you have in your Gmail account, which is a horrific though – but true.
But what is also interesting is when you buy webhosting from a company they send your username and password to (yes you guessed it) your email account, and if you’re using Gmail or the like, the same vulnerability issues show up as people have pointed out here.

Sorry guys’ maybe I getting a little carried away, my point is to say Gmail or hotmail are not safe but rather to point out that our service is equally or maybe even more safe than services most of you use on a daily basis. So please comment, email, or post on our forum your thoughts, ideas and suggestion because we really want to hear what you have to say.

One more thing we posted a Poll (Do you trust our service enough to use it?) on this blog so please take a second to take the survey it will really help us out.

Kind Regards,
The PHPanywhere Team

But not to worry all that will also be redesigned in the days to come.

Please let us know what you think in the comments.