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Re: newbie question: Is config.php necessary? [message #170637 is a reply to message #170633]

Fri, 12 November 2010 15:42

Thomas Mlynarczyk
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Registered: September 2010

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Erwin Moller schrieb:
> Because I consider:
> filter_input( INPUT_GET, 'value', FILTER_UNSAFE_RAW )
> a horrible construct compared to:
> $_GET["value"];

Well, I would, of course, bury this "horrible construct" in a nice
little function or method, for example:

function get( $name, $default = null )
{
return isset( $_GET[$name] )
? filter_input( INPUT_GET, $name, FILTER_UNSAFE_RAW )
: $default;
}

Actually, I would add some check of the retrieved value etc. but the
above is just to give the general idea of hiding the ugly interface of
the filter extension behind some sweet syntactic sugar.

> I prefer using the superglobals directly.
> (But that might be just me: Each to his own of course!)

Agreed.

> You probably know the situation: A huge website, written in PHP4.3 many
> years ago, and the client doesn't understand why you want to rewrite the
> whole thing, and says: "It works, doesn't it? So simply add this and
> that functionality. I don't want to spend a lot of money on a rewrite.".

I feel you pain. Maybe you could tell the client that the current
architecture does not permit to add the requested functionality easily
and that that would cost much more than than a complete rewrite. Or that
the requested functionality *requires* PHP 5. Or: PHP 4 is no longer
supported, so if there's a problem with it, there will be no one to fix
it. Or: "The requested functionality will make your website so popular
that the increased number of visitors can no longer be handled by the
old server, so you'd have to get a new one and they don't make the PHP4
ones any more..." ;-) Or: "Since PHP4 is no longer supported, I must
charge an extra fee for dealing with legacy code..."

Greetings,
Thomas

--
Ce n'est pas parce qu'ils sont nombreux à avoir tort qu'ils ont raison!
(Coluche)

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		newbie question: Is config.php necessary? By: luxor1275bc on Tue, 09 November 2010 05:46
		Re: newbie question: Is config.php necessary? By: Erwin Moller on Tue, 09 November 2010 09:22
		Re: newbie question: Is config.php necessary? By: Thomas Mlynarczyk on Tue, 09 November 2010 20:21
		Re: newbie question: Is config.php necessary? By: Erwin Moller on Wed, 10 November 2010 08:53
		Re: newbie question: Is config.php necessary? By: Thomas Mlynarczyk on Thu, 11 November 2010 18:40
		Re: newbie question: Is config.php necessary? By: Erwin Moller on Fri, 12 November 2010 10:27
		Re: newbie question: Is config.php necessary? By: Thomas Mlynarczyk on Fri, 12 November 2010 15:42
		Re: newbie question: Is config.php necessary? By: Twayne on Sun, 14 November 2010 17:45
		Re: newbie question: Is config.php necessary? By: Thomas Mlynarczyk on Sun, 14 November 2010 20:08
		Re: newbie question: Is config.php necessary? By: Twayne on Sun, 14 November 2010 22:10

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