A Somewhat Difficult Choice
January 18th, 2009
I’ve been reviewing applications and scripts to add into the system and I’ve come up against a pretty difficult choice. There are a large volume of useful scripts that have been written some time ago using the PHP4 scripting language, which due to the way they are written won’t run on 90% (or more) of properly setup and secured PHP5 environments. Do I add them to the system?
On the one hand we’ll be able to help people with these scripts toward the goal of finding a suitable host. On the other we’re promoting scripts which might just be relying on register globals and long arrays being enabled, that’s bad!
My personal belief is that, as webmasters, we must be responsible in selecting the scripts which run our sites and engines. We should not select a script that will not run properly in a modern environment, nor should we be buying or using scripts which developers have simply stopped keeping up to date with the latest in standards and compatibility.
I suppose that should answer my question… no PHP4 applications will be added to the system if they require any features such as register_globals or register_long_arrays to be “On”.
Sorry to everyone who this will be affecting!
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