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Re:PHP needs a vision by TylerE on Thursday January 10, 2013 @09:29AM (#5036986)
I'll accept this argument when PHP starts shipping with sane defaults. It's only quite recently that register globals got turned off in the default config.
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Re:PHP needs a vision by jtreminio on Thursday January 10, 2013 @09:42AM (#5037046)
Global registers were deprecated in 5.3.0, and completely removed in 5.4.0

http://php.net/manual/en/security.globals.php

5.3.0 is 2 and a half years old.

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Re:PHP needs a vision by TylerE on Thursday January 10, 2013 @09:55AM (#5037125)
and many shared hosting providers are still on 5.2, and many crappy old scripts require register_globals on.
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Re:PHP needs a vision by shakesbeard on Thursday January 10, 2013 @10:55AM (#5037566)
And that's PHP's fault? It won't affect you if you start writing a PHP 5.3 (or even 5.4) app today.
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Re:PHP needs a vision by TylerE on Thursday January 10, 2013 @11:20AM (#5037762)
Yes, it is PHP's fault. It's endemic to the general attitude of the PHP team.

"Now just marginally less braindead than every other language" isn't exactly a selling point.

Sure, it used to be worse, but I see zero commitment from PHP to actually make real steps to fixing the situation. A real first step would be to start working on a 6.x release that actually removes the gazillion deprecated-but-still-present-and-thus-used things in the language.

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