Re: simple page not found 404 script - PHP

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On Fri, March 30, 2007 8:18 am, Zoltán Németh wrote:
> actually I don't know what the problem is, but I would do it in a much
> shorter way:
>
> $pagename = $_GET['catcode'];
> if(file_exists("$pagename")) {
>  include "$pagename";
> } else {
>  include "404.php";
> }

You really ought to be filtering the $_GET data here...

http://example.com/categories.php?pagename=/etc/passwd

will pretty much blindly dump out a file you should not be exposing.

Also, as a matter of style:

"$pagename" is just kinda silly...

It takes a string and embeds it into a string with, err, nothing else,
and so you end up with the "same" string, only making PHP do extra
work to get there.

Actually, I suppose PHP might be smart enough to optimize this away...

But it looks silly, on the surface at least.

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