Re: Creating a text file
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:23:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Creating a text file | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Mon, July 23, 2007 8:10 am, Daniel Brown wrote:
> On 7/20/07, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, July 19, 2007 8:33 am, Daniel Brown wrote:
>>
>> > extract($_POST);
>>
>> You might as well just turn register_globals back ON (bad!) because
>> you've just done a work-around on $_POST that does exactly what
>> register_globals ON does to $_POST...
>>
>> This is bad.
>>
>> Don't do this.
>>
>> ONLY extract the variables you EXPECT to see in POST.
>>
>> In this case there were only two variables anyway...
>> [shrug]
> Yes, but keep in mind, it was a simple, cheap example just to get
> it to work Out Of The Box(R). I sure as heck don't expect that code
> to be used. It'll work, but it's.... well, it's ugly.
Don't take this wrong, but...
What are the odds the OP has any idea that extract() is ugly and
shouldn't be used?...
:-)
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