The Danger of Hooks - Paul Reinheimer

Courtesy Planet PHP  Tue, 01/10/2012 - 08:27

I fell in love with Hooks in frameworks recently; the honeymoon period was tragically short. First, the love story:

I ran into hooks rather simultaneously with two very different frameworks: Code Igniter and Lithium.

In both cases I was using a rather nifty hook to handle ensuring that users were properly authenticated and authorized before accessing a page.

I think we can all agree having to add some code to every single method is foolhardy: if (!isset($_SESSION['user_level']) OR ($_SESSION['user_level'] !=...

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