Clicky’s blog

Hello! My name is François “Clicky” Poirotte and this here is the blog where I discuss various topics related to programming and computers in general.


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You may also check out the various projects I contribute to:

  • phpfarm

    My custom fork of Christian Weiske‘s phpfarm project. phpfarm allows you to run several versions of PHP alongside each other.

  • Plop

    A user-friendly yet very flexible logging system for PHP applications. Plop is compatible with the PSR-3 logging interface.

  • XRL

    An easy-to-use XML-RPC library for PHP (both as a client and a server) with a syntax that feels very natural.

    It supports many common XML-RPC extensions and it handles type autoboxing.

  • Erebot

    A modular IRC bot written in PHP. This project gave birth to multiple sub-projects:

  • StreamManager

    An event-oriented PHP stream manager, with supported for filtered streams.

  • php_tomcrypt

    PHP bindings for the LibTomCrypt cryptography library.

  • pssht

    A PHP library for building SSH servers with support for various advanced features.

  • push

    A basic PHP shell Initially written for pssht.

  • Cryptal

    The PHP Cryptography Abstraction Layer meant to ease the use of cryptographic primitives by abstracting away the differences between the various PHP cryptography extensions available.

    Includes plugins for the most common PHP extensions, as well as userland PHP implementations for some algorithms.