Re: cvs: php-src / README.UPDATING_TO_PHP6

On 3/22/06, Stefan Esser <sesser@php.net> wrote: > > > What is bullshit? the emulation, the way it is done or both? Anyway, > > you were quiet during the discussions, or did not read them, please > > keep such comments for another place. > > > Bullshit is an emulation that is even more insecure than > register_globals=on in the first place and that doesn't even work, > because the author obviously had no clue. S is not _SESSION, but > _SERVER. And infact the emulation did not handle _GET variables at all. Stefan, as usual you are arguing without actually reading the relevant discussions. The author of this little snippet provided it as example and explicitelly said that it needs improvements, enhancements or tests (and I repeat this call in the commit log message). Fixing it is good, commenting it as you do is not. --Pierre