Re: Creating a text file

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On 7/27/07, Richard Lynch <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, July 23, 2007 8:10 am, Daniel Brown wrote:
> > On 7/20/07, Richard Lynch <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Thu, July 19, 2007 8:33 am, Daniel Brown wrote:
> >>
> >> >         extract($_POST);
> >>
> >> You might as well just turn register_globals back ON (bad!) because
> >> you've just done a work-around on $_POST that does exactly what
> >> register_globals ON does to $_POST...
> >>
> >> This is bad.
> >>
> >> Don't do this.
> >>
> >> ONLY extract the variables you EXPECT to see in POST.
> >>
> >> In this case there were only two variables anyway...
> >> [shrug]
>
> >     Yes, but keep in mind, it was a simple, cheap example just to get
> > it to work Out Of The Box(R).  I sure as heck don't expect that code
> > to be used.  It'll work, but it's.... well, it's ugly.
>
> Don't take this wrong, but...
>
> What are the odds the OP has any idea that extract() is ugly and
> shouldn't be used?...
>
> :-)
>
> --
> Some people have a "gift" link here.
> Know what I want?
> I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist.
> http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch
> Yeah, I get a buck. So?
>
>

    Touché, Lynch.  ;-P

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