All blog posts tagged with eval

Function Aliasing in PHP

Posted May 20, 2010

One question I've asked myself and I see asked on sites such as stackoverflow.com is if PHP is able to have "aliases" for functions. The answer is either, "no, you have to use a wrapper function" or to the more extreme "you can write an extension".

Since I'm one of those PHP developers who doesn't t…

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PHP "Eval is Evil"

Posted April 7, 2010

I keep seeing something which is beginning to annoy me - I keep seeing all these forum and blog comments saying how terrible PHP's "eval" instruction is, and how there is no reason what-so-ever to use it.

I wish people would keep their opinions to themselves simply when they cannot think of an insta…

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