RE: [PHP] Good Answers

2006-05-11 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Might I make a suggestion for an addition to the newbie email - in the where to find more information section - add a link either to the manual security section or phpsec.org [/snip] Cool idea, let's get that info together and I'll add it and throw it up on my server... -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] Good Answers

2006-05-11 Thread Micky Hulse
Ligaya Turmelle wrote: here is the link for the improved newbie doc - http://zirzow.dyndns.org/php-general/NEWBIE Might be nice to see a link to the NEWBIE information in the footer of the PHP list emails... know what I mean? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

Re: [PHP] Good Answers

2006-05-11 Thread Wolf
Yeah, to think we used to have English Majors as the wait-staff in restaurants and drive-thrus so you at least were understood when giving your food and drink order... Richard Lynch wrote: SNIP PHP *has* lowered the entry barrier ridiculously low, to the point where we've got idiots and English

RE: [PHP] Good Answers

2006-05-10 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] In the spirit of improving the mailing list, I'd like to suggest that we, as a group, attempt to not provide answers with Bad Practices, or at least always to point out that the Sample is Bad Practice for production sites? For example, an answer to a question about ?php echo $foo? where it

Re: [PHP] Good Answers

2006-05-10 Thread Eric Butera
On 5/10/06, Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey y'all... In the spirit of improving the mailing list, I'd like to suggest that we, as a group, attempt to not provide answers with Bad Practices, or at least always to point out that the Sample is Bad Practice for production sites? For

Re: [PHP] Good Answers

2006-05-10 Thread Richard Lynch
On Wed, May 10, 2006 2:16 pm, Eric Butera wrote: On 5/10/06, Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: these issues because they don't even know to consider these things. I still see so many examples passed on that have the ability to inject SQL or spam via E-Mail Header injection. I mean to

Re: [PHP] Good Answers

2006-05-10 Thread Micky Hulse
Good thread. Great points. I always thought this Sitepoint thread was very helpful: http://snipurl.com/qafg Cheers, Micky -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Good Answers

2006-05-10 Thread tedd
Hmmm. Maybe this should be part of a Netiquette document How to give good answers right next to that How to ask good questions document :-^ Yep, and right next to How to think good, How to Google, and How to RTFM :-) tedd --

Re: [PHP] Good Answers

2006-05-10 Thread Jochem Maas
As usual, Richard shows the quality of his mettle! :-) I absolutely agree, some ideas: 1. have the mailing list automatically add a single line to the mailing list sig that promotes security/good-practice and points to phpsec.org? (I guess only someone like Rasmus could say whether this was

Re: [PHP] Good Answers

2006-05-10 Thread Ligaya Turmelle
Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] In the spirit of improving the mailing list, I'd like to suggest that we, as a group, attempt to not provide answers with Bad Practices, or at least always to point out that the Sample is Bad Practice for production sites? For example, an answer to a question about

Re: [PHP] Good Answers

2006-05-10 Thread Ligaya Turmelle
Richard Lynch wrote: Hey y'all... In the spirit of improving the mailing list, I'd like to suggest that we, as a group, attempt to not provide answers with Bad Practices, or at least always to point out that the Sample is Bad Practice for production sites? For example, an answer to a question