> I have been taught, in programming web applications: > 1. separate code from data > 2. separate code from presentation > in short: three layers: > 1. database > 2. business logic > 3. presentation
Whoever said you couldn't do all that in PHP? <snip> > with a proper templating language, you cant do these things. So 90% of > your security problems are solved. In php you can do this. You can embed > sql queries in your html pages and do all sorts of things - so how can > you learn good practices? I try to train the programmers i get - and the > ones who come from php background drive me crazy. The fact that needles hurt people doesn't stop companies from manufacturing because they are *useful*. Just because PHP *allows* you to embed random pieces of HTML anywhere, doesn't mean you do it. There at-least a thousand frameworks and templating systems for PHP out there. And I can think of certain cases where you might just want to, for example when you're making your "Personal Home Page" and you don't give a damn about things like MVC because you don't know how to program. And NO, you don't need to a *super hacker* to write good PHP, you just need some common sense. I don't see why it is difficult to write good code in PHP; it's just like any other language. -- Anant -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
