Like COBOL or QWERTY, it infiltrates the very skin of the host.
October 2, 2012 10:21 AM Subscribe
Zend attempting to push PHP into mobile turf, apparently because JavaECMAscript is doing well. My take on the visible decline of PHP cited in the article is that with the recession firms are shaking off the PHP quasiprogrammer folk.
This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a pretty boring non-news article about PHP, not really MeFi worthy news that they are thinking of mobile sites. -- mathowie
Not sure this post will survive that framing, but:
PHP is such a freaking security nightmare. It was always a halfass language. The last time I looked, a few years ago, the documentation explicitly had you doing extremely unsafe, insecure things, like building database query strings directly from user input, without sanitization.
Relevant XKCD
Javascript runs on the client, not the server, so it's not quite the same thing -- but if you want your server running code on your web pages, use basically anything but PHP. Please.
posted by Malor at 10:27 AM on October 2, 2012 [1 favorite]
PHP is such a freaking security nightmare. It was always a halfass language. The last time I looked, a few years ago, the documentation explicitly had you doing extremely unsafe, insecure things, like building database query strings directly from user input, without sanitization.
Relevant XKCD
Javascript runs on the client, not the server, so it's not quite the same thing -- but if you want your server running code on your web pages, use basically anything but PHP. Please.
posted by Malor at 10:27 AM on October 2, 2012 [1 favorite]
We don't call it ECMAScript any more. We've decided to go with "CoffeeScript" for now.
posted by bbuda at 10:28 AM on October 2, 2012
posted by bbuda at 10:28 AM on October 2, 2012
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