Month of PHP Bugs Has Begun

An anonymous reader writes "The previously announced Month of PHP Bugs started three days ago, and already lists 8 security vulnerabilities in PHP and PHP related software. From the site: 'This initiative is an effort to improve the security of PHP. However we will not concentrate on problems in the PHP language that might result in insecure PHP applications, but on security vulnerabilities in the PHP core. During March 2007 old and new security vulnerabilities in the Zend Engine, the PHP core and the PHP extensions will be disclosed on a day by day basis. We will also point out necessary changes in the current vulnerability management process used by the PHP Security Response Team.'"

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Re:In defence of PHP

[brezel]

it's fast, it get results, it's everywhere, it has a straightforward syntax,

i did a lot of testing in my company that showed that creating large html forms from database content in php is 120% slower than in java.

it has a huge number of extensions enabling you to talk to just about anything,

ever tried to access an oracle db from php? not fun.

No compiling, no fannying around with JVMs.

yup, that's why it is slow as hell. also the total lack of type safety and freak operators like === make me want to avoid it. :)