On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:26:53AM -0300, Lic. Martin Marques wrote:
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote:
If you tell people to switch that off, they might get problems with other scripts.
They can always have diferent settings for diferent directory definitions in the web server.
As I said before, magic_quotes is a very bad thing, and security must come from the programmer, not an automatic quoter.
I absolutely agree with you here. But the programmer should also make his software user/admin friendly and I don't think the 5 lines workaround needed to fix this problem are too much hassle for the coder...
You will have more problems telling website-"admins" (which usually don't know a bit of webserver administration) to change a PHP setting - just for this subdirectory - been there, done that ;).
Balu