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PHP.net Compromised
An anonymous reader writes "The open source PHP project site was compromised earlier today. The site appears to have been compromised and had some of its Javascript altered to exploit vulnerable systems visiting the website. Google's stop-badware system caught this as well and flagged php.net as distributing malware, warning users whose browsers support it not to visit the site. The comment by a Google employee over at the hacker news thread (official Google webmaster forum thread) seems to suggest that php.net wasn't incorrectly flagged."
I'm no troll. I was there (on the internet, not physically present) when Tim Berners-Lee announced the World Wide Web and I happened to notice while using Gopher.
I was on the internet, er, before it was the internet. -_- That doesn't mean anything as far as statements made about today.
I've spent considerable time since regretting my early advocacy and plenty of time fixing PHP driven sites or migrating away from PHP to better platforms. Plenty of other people over the years have explained why PHP is a 'fractal of bad design', so I won't make that attempt here. I agree with them.
I calmly stand by my snark, perched atop the mountain of experience.
And I stand by my statements, that PHP would be one of my top picks for back-end design and dynamic pages. It is easy to read, has reasonably good performance, and reasonable security. But no language can stop people from shooting their own foot off if they're so determined, and your grevance seems to be not with the language itself, but with the fact that so many people shoot their own foot off while using it. The only problem I have with PHP is that the designers seem utterly incapable of understanding OOP concepts and the result is half-baked objects. But then, I say the same thing about Java.
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You're reading a lot into my jokey original one-sentence post. Grievance (grevance)? I've used PHP. Found it wanting. Moved on. End of story. What's driving your zealous PHP advocacy?
I'm not. It's a popular language that is also used on many major web sites. This suggests to me that your various statements about it being "found wanting" are in error. Especially when you have failed to offer an alternative. You criticized something because it was less than perfect. The exact same argument can be made for everything. Ever. It's a logical fallacy, and you got upmodded for it, and my pointing it out got me mod-bombed.
Slashdot needs a "-1, Ironic" for some posts.
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