Paul Reinheimer's Blog: The Danger of Hooks

Courtesy PHPDeveloper.org  Thu, 01/12/2012 - 09:12

Paul Reinheimer has a recent post to his blog talking about the danger of "hooks" in your development - the functionality several frameworks and other tools come with to allow you to add functionality to the core without having to change the main source.

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...


 

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