Originally Posted by nation-x

lol Jakez... how could you be selling scripts all of this time and not know something like that? I am not insulting you at all... I am just in awe of the success you have seen with your script with the limited php knowledge you demonstrate.

Originally Posted by raymor

It does surprise me at all. In twelve years, I've met exactly one knowledgeable
programmer who does much work in PHP. The rest have been more or less clueless.
You'd have been amazed to see the ICQ conversation I had the other day with a
certain well known "PHP programmer". They are selling a lot to adult webmasters.
We're looking to hire someone to do some work for us and some partners, so I've
been kind of interviewing some people. Speaking to one of the better known PHP
"programmers" in adult, they didn't know the answer to ANY of my questions about
either practical day to day PHP coding, software design, or basic PHP security to
avoid creating large security holes through your script. That didn't surprise me.
How many "PHP programmers" have ever taken a single course in programming,
computer science, etc.? Virtually none. Most have never read a single book on
the subject. They learned all that they know by copying and pasting code from
some other clueless PHP script kiddie.

I'd estimate that 95% of all PHP code being sold has serious programming errors
like putting 30 times as much load on the server as it should and taking 30 times
too long to run, and that 98% of PHP scripts have serious security issues. The only
PHP code I can think of right now that doesn't pretty much completely suck is Wordpress,
and it too has a real security hole where any user can easily get admin access on
most installations. I'll be writing a fix for that and get it integrated into future versions.
(In the meantime, the Strongbox plugin for Wordpress includes the fix).