A few days ago, I tried to use an opensource mailing list manager
program, it had great reviews and seemed to have the features I
wanted. So, I tried it out, to my dismay just the installer alone
had issues, when I went to the install page (thank you for making
one in the first place), I was presented with lots and lots of
PHP on screen..obviously, I was confused, this is PHPcult.com
after all, and the server is configured to parse .php, .php3,
.inc. So, I had to do some digging as to what was causing the
problem.. the programmers used short open tags for PHP. So, I
thought, I need to make a list of things that people do, that may
come and bite them later on down the road. Here goes:
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Register Globals : This has been discussed more than it
should be, it's a simple concept, just take it from the more
experienced programmers, this is bad.
- Short Open …