| Re: newbie question: Is config.php necessary? [message #170669 is a reply to message #170637] |
Sun, 14 November 2010 17:45   |
Twayne
Messages: 135
Registered: September 2010
Karma:
|
Senior Member |
|
|
In news:ibjn8e$a7p$00$1(at)news(dot)t-online(dot)com,
Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas(at)mlynarczyk-webdesign(dot)de> typed:
> Erwin Moller schrieb:
>> Because I consider:
>> filter_input( INPUT_GET, 'value', FILTER_UNSAFE_RAW )
>> a horrible construct compared to:
>> $_GET["value"];
>
> Well, I would, of course, bury this "horrible construct" in
> a nice little function or method, for example:
>
> function get( $name, $default = null )
> {
> return isset( $_GET[$name] )
> ? filter_input( INPUT_GET, $name, FILTER_UNSAFE_RAW
> ) : $default;
> }
>
> Actually, I would add some check of the retrieved value
> etc. but the above is just to give the general idea of
> hiding the ugly interface of the filter extension behind
> some sweet syntactic sugar.
>> I prefer using the superglobals directly.
>> (But that might be just me: Each to his own of course!)
>
> Agreed.
>
>> You probably know the situation: A huge website, written
>> in PHP4.3 many years ago, and the client doesn't
>> understand why you want to rewrite the whole thing, and
>> says: "It works, doesn't it? So simply add this and that
>> functionality. I don't want to spend a lot of money on a
>> rewrite.".
>
> I feel you pain. Maybe you could tell the client that the
> current architecture does not permit to add the requested
> functionality easily and that that would cost much more
> than than a complete rewrite. Or that the requested
> functionality *requires* PHP 5. Or: PHP 4 is no longer
> supported, so if there's a problem with it, there will be
> no one to fix it. Or: "The requested functionality will
> make your website so popular that the increased number of
> visitors can no longer be handled by the old server, so
> you'd have to get a new one and they don't make the PHP4
> ones any more..." ;-) Or: "Since PHP4 is no longer
> supported, I must charge an extra fee for dealing with
> legacy code..."
> Greetings,
> Thomas
Dumb Question:
Why, really, does it matter whether it's 4.x or 5.x? 4 will continue,
with only a few finite exceptions, to work under 5 for quite some time to
come. I mean, are there any actual problems NOW? If not, there isn't likely
to be. What ARE the problems, if any? By the time you get past 5.3 it could
begin to matter, but ... AFAIK most servers still allow either setting for 4
OR 5.
I'm just trying to understand why it matters since the customer is
resisting, something I would expect to happen anyway. One thing I would NOT
do is lie or mislead the customer because if it's something he's mad about
it's something he'll talk about and you never know who he'll talk to. I know
the first time anyone is proven to lie to me, our association is done, even
if it's a paying customer. I also try to follow up any of what I consider to
be outrageous claims and so do some customers. Lyng is a dangerous rep to
get. I've picked up three accounts because of lies their previous authors
tried to give them.
HTH,
Twayne`
|
|
|
|
Calendar
Search
Help
Members
Register
Login
Home
]