PHP web site compromised

Posted Oct 28, 2013 15:03 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: PHP web site compromised by cabrilo
Parent article: PHP web site compromised

> Some of that criticism is true, but it's also irrelevant.

The problem is usually that argument order is flipped coupled with PHP's willy-nilly implicit casts. It makes *finding* flipped arguments harder than it should be.

> of course, some people hate curly braces, but that's a matter of taste

IME, it's not the curly braces, but the forced sigil ($) and the stupid choice of namespace token (really, '\'?).