Re: [PHP-DEV] Disable magic quote by default.

2002-02-16 Thread Stefan Esser
magic_quotes_by_default is a nice way to make scripts (written by novices) safer. Unfourtunately mqbd forces you to write unsecure scripts. If you put such scripts onto a server that doesnt have mqbd they are insecure. From my point of view enabling mq by default was a very very bad idea, cause

[PHP-DEV] Snapshot binary release...

2002-02-16 Thread Stefan Esser
Hi, Could it be possible to package a Windows Snapshot Binary Release? People again and again have header() problems and as long they are using some form of unix i can tell them to patch the one line into it. But i doubt a standard windows user has the build utilities and the skills to compile

Re: [PHP-DEV] socket_send() ...also a bug?

2002-02-16 Thread Markus Fischer
It's documented on http://www.php.net/manual/en/zend.arguments.retrieval.php It's a kind of promoting binary safety. Not the passed number of parameter passed to zend_parse_parameters() is important but what modifies are used to describe the parameters. Since a string is

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Tag Libraries

2002-02-16 Thread Markus Fischer
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 01:33:43AM +0100, Alexander Feldman wrote : It is strange that such an issue had not been discussed here in the past (or maybe I have missed the mails as I don't follow very regularly the list). You seem to have missed it, where was something about this topic

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Tag Libraries

2002-02-16 Thread Alexander Feldman
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 01:33:43AM +0100, Alexander Feldman wrote : It is strange that such an issue had not been discussed here in the past (or maybe I have missed the mails as I don't follow very regularly the list). You seem to have missed it, where was something about this

[PHP-DEV] CVS Account Request: artemus

2002-02-16 Thread Artemis Mendrinos
Obtain CVS account. -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP-DEV] CVS account requests

2002-02-16 Thread Jon Parise
I was thinking it might be reasonable to a request that a person asking for a CVS account should first present a small contribution. For example, someone interested in translating documentation should submit a translated chapter with their account request, or a person that wants to work on the

Re: [PHP-DEV] CVS account requests

2002-02-16 Thread Dan Kalowsky
Eh kind of gives the feeling of doing the work without reaping the benefits to me. Or maybe I'm just too negative. On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Jon Parise wrote: I was thinking it might be reasonable to a request that a person asking for a CVS account should first present a small contribution.

[PHP-DEV] CVS Account Request: bernardojts

2002-02-16 Thread Bernardo João Torres da Silveira
I'm using PHP and I think this is a great resource to web programmers since it supports lots of libraries you can work with. Thinking in this I wanted to thank PHP developers in some way and so, to help brazilian and portuguese PHP users and train my english I want to translate PHP

Re: [PHP-DEV] Disable magic quote by default.

2002-02-16 Thread Yasuo Ohgaki
Stefan Esser wrote: magic_quotes_by_default is a nice way to make scripts (written by novices) safer. Unfourtunately mqbd forces you to write unsecure scripts. If you put such scripts onto a server that doesnt have mqbd they are insecure. This is true. I bet many novice writes insecure

Re: [PHP-DEV] Disable magic quote by default.

2002-02-16 Thread Yasuo Ohgaki
Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: Stefan Esser wrote: magic_quotes_by_default is a nice way to make scripts (written by novices) safer. Unfourtunately mqbd forces you to write unsecure scripts. If you put such scripts onto a server that doesnt have mqbd they are insecure. This is true. I bet

Re: [PHP-DEV] Disable magic quote by default.

2002-02-16 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 18:01, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: Stefan Esser wrote: magic_quotes_by_default is a nice way to make scripts (written by novices) safer. Unfourtunately mqbd forces you to write unsecure scripts. If you put such scripts onto a server that

Re: [PHP-DEV] Disable magic quote by default.

2002-02-16 Thread Yasuo Ohgaki
Lars Torben Wilson wrote: On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 18:01, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: *SNIP* The WTF factor for that would be off the scale. Think about how many bug reports about addslashes() not working we'd have to bogusify. -1 I agree. That's why I thought it may be better to wait until PHP5 and

[PHP-DEV] Re: Disable magic quote by default.

2002-02-16 Thread Steve Meyers
Lars Torben Wilson wrote: On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 18:01, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: Stefan Esser wrote: Hmmm btw... This idea just came to my mind and i don't know if it would be too much overhead, but what about keeping track of what variables got already magically