Comments on: MOPS Submission 06: Variable Initialization in PHP

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 18 May 2010 02:45:24 +0000

I'd love to see PHP changing the scope of variables, e.g. a variable declared inside a statement (or any block really) should be out of scope outside of that block.
This way you wouldn't need any notices, the code just wouldn't work, but would be very easy to fix.

By: cdamian

cdamian — Mon, 17 May 2010 20:31:50 +0000

In the first examples I would avoid the whole problem by directly assigning to the variable:

$auth = authUser($_POST["login"], $_POST["password"]);

Missing assignments can also spotted quiet easy if you have enough tests with good code coverage.

By: wellingtonrodrigues

wellingtonrodrigues — Mon, 17 May 2010 19:56:00 +0000

Greetings,

Very cool your article but for matters of authentication would be much safer to carry the validity of the authentication session.

Best regards,

Wellington Rodrigues
PHP Programmer Brazil