magic quotes

[SOD]

Do you guys use them? or do you shut them off I had heard that they degrade proformance.....thoughts?

[bob]

I don't use them, but instead use a series of regular expressions... Not sure why I chose the one method over the other....

[bob]

I also use mysql_real_escape_string, strip_tags, addslashes, and htmlentities, but still need the regular expressions too -- it's kind of maddening how all the invalid characters can get in there

[SOD]

The continunity on the web leaves much to be desired...

BTW www.dinfilter.com has been stable for a couple of months now. Take a look at the 'Learn about Dinfilter' link. I created a simple narrative paragarph with links to the concepts and definitions that drive it. Also note the way cool graph.

BTW if our output looks different than the RSS it is correct we can provide hourly proofs.

[SOD]

Forensics is a wonderful thing.

[Gerry]

Magic quotes was a colossal fuckup and PHP finally admitted it:

Warning

This feature has been DEPRECATED and REMOVED as of PHP 6.0.0. Relying on this feature is highly discouraged.

http://jp.php.net/magic_quotes


They tried to be too smart, thinking for the user when they shouldn't be.... like Vista and it's auto update timer which restarted my computer right near the end of a 8 hour merge script that I had been running, just because I wasn't around to say, "Hey, no actually Vista, I would really like it if you didn't fuck me over like that, please delay this timer for another four hours, which you have decided to set as the limit for the delay dropdown box".

... unlike PHP through, they are yet to admit this is was a colossal fuckup of an idea.

sorry yeah.... magic quotes bad as it auto corrupts data that only really the programmer knows the purpose of. It's also escaping the data at the wrong point and it is making assumptions about the way that it needs to be escaped, when really it has no clue.

ps. hi

[RedRage]

i tired to use them for a while and ya did notice a performance hit.

regex just seemed to work better but i know theres still some out there that i missed LOL

[bob]

Gerry? How'd I miss this post? You back, old dog? Where'd you go?

[Gerry]

[ot]I'm now working as a thespian, stunning audiences in Melborne. I won't go into too many details though, it's kinda embarrassing to explain if you haven't seen one of my shows.[/ot]

[bob]

male stripper? I guess that explains the embarassment...


BTW, on magic quotes, I'm having a heck of a time with apostrophes right now. Trying to fix it this morning. Some headlines come in with

Code: Select all

%27

and other have just plain apostrophes. (Same headline, same source - maybe different browser?) Causes the counter to count the same headline as two separate ones, thereby causing the Top Headline lists to have repeats.... I think I almost have the problem in hand though. Funny, only had the problem sporadically before, now I have it every day. I think it might have something to do with the feedburner - google transition.

[Gerry]

I dunno.... http://jp.php.net/manual/en/function.urldecode.php maybe.... depends on the code before it really.

Na, no stripping, I haven't got the legs for it. ..... but if I did!!!

[bob]

This is a Perl issue, Gerry. No problem with the PHP sections... But maybe I could run the strings through something like that before sending them to Perl or the database....

[JohnT]

Do you guys use them? or do you shut them off I had heard that they degrade proformance.....thoughts?

I did have some thoughts.. until I read the Topic title once again. Heh! I thought the topic was "Magic Goats"....